Gopperth: Ending drought will prove selectors wrong

By NEALE HARVEY

WASPS will head into the play-offs fuelled by a burning sense of injustice over their international exclusions, according to newly crowned players’ player-of-the-year Jimmy Gopperth.
A record-breaking regular season campaign saw Wasps finish on top of the Premiership for the first time since play-offs began in 2003, but that cut little ice with Lions boss Warren Gatland who ignored the claims of James Haskell and in-form lock Joe Launchbury, below.
Christian Wade’s 17 league tries were insufficient to force him into Eddie Jones’ England reckoning, while t...

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