That sparked a bout of yellow fever, with Byron Hayward and Volley despatched to the sin-bin just five minutes later. When all the miscreants had returned, Wasps really turned it on.First there was a delicate chip from Alex King, Joe Worsley catching the ball on the full out on the right wing and cruising over; in the 67th minute Mark Denney’s smart inside pass found the rampant Rob Henderson, scorer of a hat-trick for Ireland the previous weekend, and the centre surged through the mud for the third try. Logan converted both and added a penalty to leaveGloucester and the pitch in a hell of a mess.Gloucester: C Catling; R Greenslade-Jones (C Yates, 61), J Ewens, J Little, T Beim; B Hayward, E Moncrieff (A Gomarsall, 59); T Woodman, O Azam (J Djoudi, 75), P Vickery (capt; A Deacon, 75), R Fidler (E Pearce, 68), I Jones, J Boer, J Paramore, A Hazell.Wasps: P Sampson (J Lewsey, 21-25); S Roiser (J Lewsey, 71), M Denney, R Henderson, K Logan; A King, M Wood; D Molloy, D Macer, W Green, J Beardshaw, S Shaw (R Birkett, 17), J Worsley, L Dallaglio (capt), P Volley.Referee: R Goodliffe (Sheffield).. Four days after the virtuoso performance that stunned a nation, Brian Ashton, one of the architects of the six-try victory over Wales, was back at Bath, putting in a little extracurricular work.

He may have looked like a Cheshire cat, but the cream is on ice. “There were 16 turnovers from the England backs,” he whinged. Four days after the virtuoso performance that stunned a nation, Brian Ashton, one of the architects of the six-try victory over Wales, was back at Bath, putting in a little extracurricular work. He may have looked like a Cheshire cat, but the cream is on ice. “There were 16 turnovers from the England backs,” he whinged.
This is a hard school. After gaining the freedom of the Millennium Stadium, Iain Balshaw apologised to Clive Woodward for what he felt was a sloppy display “I played shit,” were the full-back’s first words.

Give us a break.On the subject of Mike Catt, however, Ashton has no reservations “Phenomenal,” the coach said “He controlled the game with his distribution I’ve seen Catty play differently, but never better It’s good to have two stand-offs in the same back line He’s Jonny Wilkinson’s eyes.” So now we know. Wilkinson has Catt’s eyes.These are the best of times for Catt, who will win his 50th cap on Saturday against Italy at Twickenham. “I’m feeling a bit knackered,” said the elder statesman of an England back line that scored all six tries “My legs are feeling really, really tired The game was pretty quick I’m trying to look after myself.”Not much chance of that. Today he plays at stand-off for Bath at Newcastle, where he will be eyeball to eyeball with Wilkinson “It’s going to be very tough I’d prefer to see the Six Nations played in one batch.

Going from international to club rugby is not a major change any more, although the youngsters might find it difficult.”At 29 Catt, who won his first cap as a replacement wing in 1994, has gone through the gamut, using several of his nine lives. He has played in every position outside the scrum apart from numbers nine and 11, and it’s the same story for his club, although now he has settled at 12 for England, 10 for Bath.”It’s been superb,” he said. “Our win over Australia in the 1995 World Cup and our recent victories over South Africa were pretty impressive, but last Saturday ranks as one of the top afternoons To go down to Cardiff and do what we did was pretty good. The Millennium Stadium is awesome, and if anything it works against the Welsh It is such an inspiration playing there. My first thought was, ‘God, how can people make so much noise?’ It was absolutely phenomenal but we weren’t intimidated. Our aim was to silence the crowd, and by the end of the first half we had done a good job of it.

It was pretty quiet.”England had scored four tries and led 29-8 From the kick-off Catt got flattened by Scott Gibbs. “I thought, ‘Bloody hell, what’s going on here?’ If Wales had got an early try it might have been interesting. We knew we had to keep the ball in hand, play three or four phases and the holes would appear, especially with the pace we were playing at. It became quite easy to find the gaps.”Our policy was to take the ball away from contact as quickly and as often as possible. A result is that you had the mismatch of Ben Cohen running at their front five The space was there and we played to it.