Wasps director of rugby Dai Young remains confident the club will escape the drop despite losing 32-15 at Northampton.
Wasps chief still confident despite another Premiership defeat
Wasps director of rugby Dai Young remains confident the club will escape the drop despite losing 32-15 at Northampton.
The defeat was their 10th in 11 matches leaving them just eight points above Aviva Premiership basement side Newcastle.
But Young knows he cannot rely on the Falcons to keep losing with the teams set to clash on the final day of the season.
"We may as well chuck in the towel now if I'm not confident. It's going to be difficult, there are some good teams in this league," he said. "It's not going to get any easier for us, but it's in our hands.
"If we win games, they can't catch us, it's up to us to win games. If they win games and catch us fair play to them.
"I'd be lying if I said I had not got half an eye on them. We have got a bit of a cushion at the minute but it will evapoate very quickly if we don't get another win, maybe two wins.
"Newcastle will win games, we just have to make sure we get some points on the board to maintain that cushion."
Frustrating
Young was not too downcast at the performance although admitted they needed to tighten up in defence.
"We showed a lot of determination," Young added. "But it wasn't quite good enough. We played against a very good Northampton team. It's very difficult to come here and get anything but the frustrating thing for me is we have to work so hard to get any points.
"We really have to scrap and then we let in some silly points like the last try from a scrum.
"That is pretty poor from our defence, we have to be better than that. We are contributing to our own downfall, but we were under pressure for big parts of that game and the players really stood up."
Young said flanker Jonathan Poff would be fit for next week despite breaking his nose, but that centre Dominic Waldouck was doubtful after injuring a hamstring strain.
Northampton jumped into third place above Leicester, who play London Irish on Sunday, and director of rugby Jim Malinder was pleased to get a bonus-point win after last week's defeat by Leicester in the LV=Cup final.
He said: "You always want to win the game first and then look for the bonus point. It took a long time to come but we got there in the end so we are pleased.
"We were not 100% accurate, we were a bit rusty in a few areas, but you have to give credit to Wasps, they never give up."
