The pictures of Lawrence Dallaglio lifting the Heineken Cup, which are dotted around the Ricoh, are now looking a little less faded, less anachronistic. Those days of brushing pennies together to light up their dilapidated Adams Park ground are long gone. Come Sunday, it did not feel as if they were punching above their weight even in the pre-match speculations. Those ugly memories are now dismissed as a previous character-forming era. It was a remarkable performance.ĭuring the week prior to this match, Wasps coach Dai Young was asked about his own emotions at seeing a club go from having £65.16 in the bank and teetering on the brink of receivership and relegation during the 2011-12 season to housing the biggest team in Europe. Not since 2010 have Toulon been handed as big a hammering in Europe, 32-6. Last week they went to Leinster, won there, and then on a Baltic evening dismantled Toulon, winners of this competition the past three seasons. They now have two wins from two in this season's Champions Cup, and that in arguably the toughest pool of them all, and memories of their Noughties successes hang in the Coventry air. COVENTRY - In the programme teeing up Wasps' match against Toulon on Sunday is their credo: 'New era, same club'.
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