The cartoon showed a lowly Minister having breakfast with his Bishop and trying to pick out the good bits from a rotten egg he had been served. When questioned about whether his breakfast was spoiled, he replied "Oh, no, my Lord, I assure you that parts of it are excellent".

And I guess you could say the same about Wasps this season.  During the World Cup, we had a very bad run of form as lesser affected sides took advantage of all our missing players.  Since they have come back, and have largely got fit, we have started that long run in to the playoffs with a passion again, and everyone seems to think that the rest of the sides will be watching us with interest.

Tomorrow brings Sale down.  I'm looking forward to this one, as two of the most gifted sets of backs (Charlie might not be International quality, but on a good day he's potentially the best 10 in the Premiership) in the country go up against each other. I'm thinking Hodgson will be dinking the ball over the blitz, so our fullback will need to keep pretty close, and maybe that's why Lawrence isn't playing - the 9 and 8 will have to do a lot of chip chasing.  The Old Feller doesn't have the pace he used to have - even though the smarts are still there in spades. No Neanderthal Chabal means we need to find another pantomime villain, but possibly, if our Rikki gets the better of their Jason "Bianca", it'll be a right old knees up for the Londoners.

Saturday off to Sarries, who are as up and down as a fiddler's elbow.  This has always been Sarries's weakness - a curate's egg of a side. Hopefully we can catch them with the fiddler's elbow on the downstroke. Sir Lawrence of Sydney against Sarries's Dark Satanic Hill. The last time these two will probably be on the same field together in a real match.  If nothing else, TV cameras should be at the game to capture the final whistle and see these two come together ... if Hilly's knees will let him take those extra few steps. Hopefully to shake Lawrence's hand after a Wasps win.

To keep RichardWasp happy, two "ten pointers" in five days. A win against Sale, should we be good enough, would take us to 55 or 56 points, and potentially third place with a game in hand. A win against Sarries as well would give us 59 to 61 with the same games as Quins, currently on 59. Gloucester at home, normally a good bet for a Wasps win, then Leeds and Newcastle  to finish with.

Hands up who wants to bet on AlanQuin complaining about how we finished higher than Harleyqueens on the basis of postponing the Sale game for unsporting reasons?