Daly winging it – for club and country

JOSH Bassett has been one of Wasps’ stand-out performers so far this season.

It was therefore something of a shock to most of the blackand-gold faithful when he was named on the bench for last weekend’s derby clash with Leicester.

Rugby director Dai Young had the luxury of selecting from a near-full complement of backs for the first time against the Tigers, and instead opted to use Elliot Daly in his England role on the left wing, from where he went on to score an excellent try. And the Wasps boss has revealed that this decision was made on a horsesfor-courses basis, in a bid to combat Tigers’ aerial threat.

“Elliot is England’s and the British Lions’ blindside winger, so he’s not playing out of position anymore,” he said.

“Playing against Leicester and George Ford we thought there would be a lot of crossfield kicks to that wing and we