Ex-All Blacks to rescue
NZPA London The North London rugby club, the Wasps, used their New Zealand connection to the maximum to beat London Welsh in an important London Merit Table match yesterday. Wasps had three New Zealanders in the side — the flanker, Mike Leggett, and the former All Blacks, Kit Fawcett and Mark Taylor—and between them they notched up 11 of their team’s 21 points. After trailing the Welsh exiles, 0-9, for most of the match Wasps suddenly came
i into the game with 15 minutes remaining and scored all their points from then on. Legget crossed for two tries and Taylor — captaining the side and playing at first five-eighth — kicked a left-footed drop-goal. But it was Fawcett who really sparked the revival according to the “Guardian” commentator, John Rodda. The defeat has cost London Welsh a place in next year’s John Player Cup competition for clubs throughout England.
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