“His CV is excellent, apart from his last year at Blackburn, something he has since put right at West Bromwich.” And no problems with the Midlands side? “It will all be resolved,” he replies, confidently.Next, quite possibly, will come a new stadium. It didn’t look good, and we should have delayed the announcement going out. It wasn’t right, Stewart left it a little late to tell Bruce, and we jumped the gun.”He feels that in Ray Harford he has the right man for the job. Bruce was employed by Stewart, and when we asked Stewart to leave, we told him we wanted Bruce to go as well. He asked us who would tell Bruce, and we asked Stewart to do so.”Where we went wrong is that we released the news an hour later, assuming that Stewart had told Bruce.

I just felt the combination of Stewart Houston and Bruce Rioch wasn’t working.”Maybe, but was it necessary for Rioch to discover that he had been dismissed courtesy of Sky television? “No, you’re right,” he accepts “That was unfortunate. I’m not very good at asking people to leave, especially when the person you ask felt he was doing OK. “Right now we’re not and it’s clearly going to be a struggle to do so, with Forest and Middlesbrough going so well. We’ve got the play-offs to aim for, which is why I made the management change now, rather than at the end of the season, which I would definitely have done if we had not gained promotion.”Was it easy sacking Houston? “No, I found it very difficult. “I can tell you that all the club owners are united in trying to get it right. We’re not throwing in the towel and I, for one, am determined to see this through.”It’s not going that much better at QPR, either, a team Wright expected to be, at least, challenging for promotion. I am, to be frank, growing pissed off with the poor administration, and my patience is beginning to wear thin.”Yet, despite his mood, Wright is not deserting the ship “Far from it,” he insists.

“The RFU would be thrilled if people like me, Nigel Wray at Saracens and Ashley Levett at Richmond moved on, because they see us as an invasion of their cosy existence. I think it’s a terrible thing that people still resent us coming in to rugby. All we’re trying to do is to drag the sport out of the horse and buggy age, and into the 20th century.”The reason why we’re fulfilling some of these people’s prophesies is because it is how they want it They are not helping us at all. It could mean, short-term, that they could take the club honours, but at what cost to their long-term existence?”I put it to Wright that those within the game who eye his and his fellow businessmen’s involvement with scepticism, will now be claiming that their predictions were right all along. In fact the game is worse than when I first came into it.”So what does all this mean for Wasps, supposedly one of the famous big four, if not big two clubs in the country? “It means that we will have to cut our cape according to our cloth, which will result in some kind of entrenchment.”There’s no point in winning the league and then going bust, is there? We have to discipline ourselves. There are some rough seas to sail through, and I don’t know when, or even if, these seas will subside, but I do know we’ll have to batten down the hatches.