Room 101: Ed Shervington – Wasps hooker

1. Traffic Wardens
Having got three parking tickets in the last four days, I’d like to put traffic wardens in Room 101. It was a fair cop, as they say, because I was at fault on all three occasions. The third one cost me 55 quid, I’m sure they’re on commission. What type of person would chose to do that type of job? Well, I can think of someone … Tom McLoughlin, our strength and conditioning coach at Wasps; he used to be one and gets us day in day out with his traffic warden mentality.
TRP verdict: That’s fine by us, in every sense of the word.
2. Academy players
Academy players should be seen and not heard. Any academy player that dares to even make eye contact with a first team squad member, let alone speak to them, should be thrown out immediately. I was one once at Ospreys, in the Jon Humphreys, Barry Williams and Filo Tiatia era, and everyone respected the hierarchy that was in place back then. Academy lads are getting more cocksure with every passing year but I think we’ve got the young lads at Wasps well trained now.
TRP verdict: To quote Shakespeare: “So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
3. People that are never wrong
You know the type … it doesn’t matter what the subject is, they always know best. I was brought up on a poultry farm so eggs and soil are my specialist subjects yet there are a few people at Wasps who still think they know more about them than me. What’s frustrating is that these people can’t ever admit to be being wrong, even if the stone-cold facts are staring them in the face.
TRP verdict: Take a right turn into Room 101.