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Wasps 44-8 BristolScrum-half Dan Robson lights up Wasps’ first game of seasonA fashionably late entrance to this season’s Premiership by Wasps but a performance that suggests they have substance to back up their style. They scored six tries – two for the debutant Ali Crossdale – and, with a vintage performance at scrum-half by Dan Robson, they produced the kind of showing that peppered their run to the final the season before last. It made you wonder just what Lee Blackett’s side may be capable of when their injury problems clear.Brad Shields, Dan Frost, Tom Willis and Zach Kibirige also scored in Wasps’ first match of the new campaign – they were the “13th team” last week and as a result had a bye –but Robson was the architect. Given Harry Randall has not started either of Bristol’s defeats yet, Robson will have hoped he has struck an early blow in the battle to England involvement this autumn. Continue reading...