Aviva RD 1 Wasps vs Quinns

Aviva Premiership
Saturday , September 1
Wasps vs Harlequins 5/11   
Gloucester 11/17 vs Northampton   
Exeter 4/6 vs Sale   
Worcester  vs Bath    4/7
Saracens 3/10 vs London Irish
 
Sunday , September 2
London Welsh vs Leicester 1/7

I have included just the bookies odds on the favourite for each game.
To work out what the approx odds for the other team is, simply invert the numbers.
Thus a favourite at 4/6 would ideally make the other team a 6/4 shot.

The bookies are usually pretty good with their assessment.
Our job is to find the odd result here and there.

Wasps vs Quinns
From Planet rugby

Nick Evans will make his 100th appearance for Harlequins when they open the defence of their Aviva Premiership title against Wasps in the London Double Header at Twickenham.

Harlequins fly-half Nick Evans will make his one hundredth appearance when his side opens the defence of their title against London Wasps.
The former All-Black joined Harlequins in 2008 and, since making his debut against Saracens, has accumulated over 1 000 points for the club.
Both Mike Brown and captain, Chris Robshaw start after recovering from injury while on international duty with England and take their familiar roles at full-back and flanker respectively.
Matt Hopper starts at outside centre, partnering Jordan Turner-Hall. Turner-Hall's regular centre partner, George Lowe lines up on the wing.
The forwards are unchanged from the eight that lined up in the Premiership final in May. Ben Botica, who joined the club in July, is named among the replacements.
Meanwhile, Italians Andrea Masi and Fabio Staibano will make their competitive debuts for Wasps.
Wasps' director of rugby Dai Young's starting XV also features a return for James Haskell after a three-year break since his last appearance in the black and gold shirt.
Led by captain Hugo Southwell, Young has named a side full of experience and a feature of the squad this weekend is a bench full of impact and talent with summer signings Ashley Johnson and Tom Palmer among the new faces.
Young said he was presented with a welcome selection headache this week.
"There were some pretty tough decisions to be made in a number of spots, but that is a great position to be in," he said.
"Harlequins present the toughest possible start for us and we will rightly go into the game as firm underdogs.
"It will take us some time to gel as a team but we're going into Saturday with a solid pre-season campaign under our belts and we're looking for a big performance."
Young added that the competition for places in the Wasps squad would only get more intense in the weeks ahead.
"There are a few guys still out who we hope to bring back into the mix next weekend.
"Stephen Jones has been struggling over the past couple of weeks with his back and Lee Thomas with a strain in his knee; but we are hoping they will be available for the second game.
"We haven't considered Chris Bell or James Bailey either for this game with both almost recovered from their injuries, but again that's another two to add to our options very soon."
Form: London Wasps have a won 4, drawn 1, lost 3 record in previous London Double Headers and are unbeaten in the last three, whilst defending Champions, Harlequins, have a very even W3, D1, L3 record in previous London Double Headers. Wasps concluded their last campaign with four straight Premiership defeats. Harlequins lost just one of their final eight matches in the competition: 33-43 against Leicester at the Twickenham Stoop on 21 April. Quins have won their last five meetings with Wasps in all competitions, and have lost on just one of their last five visits to Twickenham.


The teams:
London Wasps: 15 Hugo Southwell (c), 14 Christian Wade, 13 Elliot Daly, 12 Andrea Masi, 11 Tom Varndell, 10 Nick Robinson, 9 Joe Simpson, 8 Billy Vunipola, 7 Jonathan Poff, 6 James Haskell, 5 Joe Launchbury, 4 Marco Wentzel, 3 Fabio Staibano, 2 Tom Lindsay, 1 Tim Payne.
Replacements: 16 T Rhys Thomas, 17 Simon McIntyre, 18 Zak Taulafo, 19 Tom Palmer, 20 Ashley Johnson, 21 Nic Berry, 22 Tommy Bell, 23 Chris Mayor.
Harlequins: 15 Mike Brown, 14 Tom Williams, 13 Matt Hopper, 12 Jordan Turner-Hall, 11 George Lowe, 10 Nick Evans, 9 Danny Care, 8 Nick Easter, 7 Chris Robshaw (c), 6 Maurie Fa'asavalu, 5 George Robson, 4 Olly Kohn, 3 James Johnston, 2 Joe Gray, 1 Joe Marler.
Replacements: 16 Rob Buchanan, 17 Mark Lambert, 18 Will Collier, 19 Charlie Matthews, 20 Tom Guest, 21 Karl Dickson, 22 Ben Botica, 23 Ross Chisholm.
Date: Saturday, September 1
Venue: Twickenham
Kick-off: 14.00 BST (13.00 GMT)
Referee: Greg Garner

Harlequins have a settled coaching team in place and they have not made any major changes to the squad that landed the club their first Aviva Premiership title in May. This stability should help them get off to a quick start as they will have the cohesion and unity necessary to play at the highest level. Nick Evans will make his 100th appearance for the club on Saturday and the former All-Black will play a key role if they are to begin with victory here. Mike Brown and Chris Robshaw have recovered from injuries they picked up on international duty over the summer and start and Conor O'Shea has named the same eight that packed down in the Grand Final last May. 
London Wasps have lost three and drawn one of the four matches played between these sides in the last two seasons and so face an uphill battle to get anything out of their opener. There was a yellow card in each of their games against Harlequins last season and with the heated atmosphere in front of a packed Twickenham a sin-binning could well be on the cards again today. Wasps were one of the most successful English club sides during the past decade but their recent slump has forced them to try and re-build their squad following the departure and retirement of their leaders in the dressing room. Former stars Tom Palmer and James Haskell will add much needed experience after the pair returned from stints in France and are both named in Dai Young's matchday 22.

I am not a fan of Wasps coach Dai Young. Everywhere he goes he brings crap rugby and losses.
Hes as bad as Andy Robinson of Scotland. While I'm on the subject of crap coaches lets add Scott Johnson.

Wasps have some excellent backs. That Andrea Masi has some pace and along with Christian wade should be scoring many tries.
But Quinns have the same settled side and will win by 10

game over.
Wow...thats a Wasps team. They nearly beat Quinns.
Score 42-40 Quinns.
Wasps will be one to watch from now on.