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Elliot Daly sends parting message to Wasps
By Josh Raisey
Wasps and England star Elliot Daly has taken to Instagram to share a message before his final game for his club this Saturday.
The 26-year-old is set to join Saracens ahead of next season, bringing to an end almost a decade long spell with Wasps, dating back to his debut in 2010.
Daly said that he has “loved every moment” of his time at Wasps, and is hoping to bow out with a win over Harlequins at the Ricoh Arena in the final game of the season.
This is what he wrote:
"https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/rugby/elliot-daly-wasps-harlequins-ricoh-16283276">one of the club’s key players, but England’s too. Capable of playing on the wing, at fullback or as a centre, Daly’s versatility has made him a favourite of Eddie Jones’.
The Australian has primarily used Daly as part of the back three for England, although many feel his best position is outside centre, where he is often deployed at Wasps. It is not just Jones that reveres him though, as Warren Gatland selected him for the British and Irish Lions in 2017, starting him in all three tests on the wing against the All Blacks, which included a monstrous penalty kick in the final test of the series.
Daly is part of a mass exodus of Wasps players at the end of the season, as they are also set to lose huge stars such as Willie le Roux, Nathan Hughes and Joe Simpson. Equally they have the likes of Malakai Fekitoa and Matteo Minozzi arriving next season to fill the void left by the England international.
It has not always been an easy ride for Daly, as Wasps have had some tough seasons and relocated whilst he has been with the club, but he has always been a high performer, and deserves a win on his final game.
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Can’t wait. Hard to call even with Munster being away. La Rochelle have been so off the boil recently.
Go to commentsPep didn’t win the ECL in 2009. It was 2008 with Barca. The gap between wins ignores the finals contested. 2 in 2 years with his City Triumph. The most recent put him in the elite company of managers to have won it with multiple clubs. Yet more late career success and history.
His time with City - a lower win ratio compared to Bayern Munich as you say - includes a 100 PT season. A feat that will likely never be surpassed. I appreciate you don’t follow soccer too closely but even casual fans refer to the sport in ‘pre and post Pep’ terms and all because of what he has achieved and is continuing to achieve, late career. There is a reason that even U10’s play out from the back now at every level of the game. That’s also a fairly recent development.
How refreshing to return to rugby on a rugby forum.
Ireland won a long over due slam in 2009. The last embers of a golden generation was kicked on by a handful of young new players and a new senior coach. Kiss was brought in as defence coach and was the reason they won it. They’d the best defence in the game at the time. He all but invented the choke tackle. Fittingly they backed it up in the next world cup in their 2011 pool match against… Australia. The instantly iconic image of Will Genia getting rag-dolled by Stephen Ferris.
His career since has even included director of rugby positions. He would have an extremely good idea of where the game is at and where it is going in addition to governance experience and dealings. Not least in Oz were many of the players will have come via or across Rugby League pathways.
Gatland isn’t a valid coach to compare too. He only ever over-achieved and was barely schools level without Shaun Edwards at club or test level. His return to Wales simply exposed his limitations and a chaotic union. It wasn’t age.
Schmidt is open to staying involved in a remote capacity which I think deserves more attention. It would be a brain drain to lose him. He stepped in to coach the ABs in the first 2022 test against Ireland when Foster was laid out with Covid. They mullered Ireland 42-19. He was still heavily involved in the RWC 2023 quarter final. Same story.
Look at the talent that would be discarded in Schmidt and Kiss if your age Nazism was applied.
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