Wasps winger Tom Varndell has claimed the club's current league form is "simply unacceptable".
Winger insists Wasps are their own harshest critics
Wasps winger Tom Varndell has claimed the club's current league form is "simply unacceptable".
The six-time domestic champions currently find themselves down in 11th in the Aviva Premiership table after a run of five successive defeats.
Things will not get any easier for Wasps with the daunting prospect of travelling to a resurgent Leicester on Saturday.
And although the Adams Park club have a 10-point cushion over bottom-placed Newcastle, Varndell knows Wasps need to turn things around now.
"We are really our own harshest critics at Wasps and we know to lose five Premiership games in a row is simply unacceptable," Varndell, who played for the Tigers before moving to Wasps in 2009, told
skysports.com.
"From our aims and ambitions to be at the start of the season, we know we are nowhere near where we want to be.
Tight
"The league is incredibly tight, though, so if you lose a couple of games you will find yourself in danger at the bottom like us, but on the flipside, if you win a couple of games you will be back up there.
"We know that we have got to get back to winning ways this weekend."
Varndell, who is currently joint-fifth on the all-time Premiership try-scoring chart, believes that Wasps are paying the price for the loss of a number of experienced players.
Simon Shaw left after the World Cup to move to Toulon, Joe Worsley and Steve Thompson have both been forced to retire, while injuries have hit the club hard.
The 26-year-old Varndell said: "When you lose the likes of Simon Shaw and Steve Thompson, who we were expecting big things from, it is a massive blow.
"But we've been hit by injuries too and I don't think there is another club who has an injury-list like ours.
"Although this has given our younger players some game time, we really need our experienced players back.
"We need the likes of Tom Rees and Ross Filipo, who have big-game experience and know how to win games."
