Preview: London Wasps v Harlequins

London Wasps kicks off the 2013/14 campaign against Harlequins at Twickenham's now traditional curtain raiser, London Double Header.

This season Wasps' stability off the field should firm up the renaissance on the park, with boss, Dai Young, renewing his contract, new players, sponsors in place, and a five year plan coming to fruition.

Two weeks ago Wasps tackled London Irish to a stanstill for 65 minutes. Some fine mauling gave us the platform to stretch out to a comfortable win.

Against Quins, however, we'll need to play the full 80 minutes, or we'll be on the wrong end of a second half fightback again.

It won't be 40-42 again. Expect some rusty 20-20 vision. And the scoreline? Wasps by a nose.

Teams:

London Wasps: 15 Andrea Masi; 14 Christian Wade, 13 Ben Jacobs, 12 Charlie Hayter, 11 Tom Varndell; 10 Andy Goode, 9 Joe Simpson; 1 Matt Mullan, 2 Tom Lindsay, 3 Jake Cooper-Woolley, 4 Joe Launchbury, 5 Tom Palmer, 6 Sam Jones (Capt.), 7 Guy Thompson, 8 Ed Jackson.

Bench: 16 Neil Cochrane, 17 Simon McIntyre, 18 Will Taylor, 19 James Cannon, 20 Ashley Johnson, 21 Charlie Davies, 22 Joe Carlisle, 23 Tommy Bell.

Harlequins: 15. Mike Brown; 14. Paul Sackey, 13. George Lowe,  12. Jordan Turner-Hall, 11. Ugo Monye; 10. Nick Evans, 9. Danny Care; 1. Joe Marler, 2. Joe Gray, 3. Will Collier, 4. George Merrick, 5. George Robson, 6. Luke Wallace, 7. Chris Robshaw (Capt.), 8. Nick Easter.

Bench: 16. Rob Buchanan, 17. Mark Lambert, 18. Paul Doran Jones, 19. Maurie Fa'asavalu, 20. Tom Guest, 21. Karl Dickson, 22. Ben Botica, 23. Charlie Walker.