Leicester Tigers

Think I'm right in saying teams are announced 10 this morning With it being a friendly, there is no set time for the teams to be released.... They sent an email saying they'd be released today, I thought it was noon but it might be ten am. I think people need to be prepared for this to be quite a c...

Super rugby Pacific with original names. Auckland Blues Wellington Hurricanes Canterbury crusaders (Christchurch) Waikato Chiefs (Hamilton I think) Otago Highlanders (Dunedin) Queensland Reds (assume Brisbane) New South Wales waratahs (assume Sydney) Melbourne rebels Western Force (Perth) ACT Brumb...

I agree. If your club has history don't meddle. If your club has no history nobody gives a monkeys because it has no association with the team. Who on earth gave the sharks handle to Sale? Doubt many get up the ship canal! I think it was their then owner who was a big fan of West Side Story, so the...

Sorry that Whitley took flack from the fans, he is young but the question is why did he come over to the Crumbie and argue, he should have stayed away over in the middle? Presumably he came over to thank the fans for attending the game, copped an earful, and responded, as emotions were no doubt hig...

Thom Smith was the one I had in mind he has had impressive showings for Doncaster but no one has signed him higher yet He signed for Jersey in the summer and doesn't appear to be playing anywhere at the moment, which is a massive shame. The kind of solid player who should be able to build a career ...

If the season ends as some fear it will be our third worst season in league rugby, the third worst in my lifetime. In our last 9 games we have: lost by 33, 17, 10, 14, and 23. And one where we threw it away on the final play to lose by 2. We've beaten: A championship team by 8 with a last second sco...

An old one but Jeremey Thrush (ex-Kiwi & Gloucester lock) and Nick Pickard (Tony from Hollyoaks).

Does playing university rugby at age 20 mean you're destined to be a Premiership player? What about the other players in the Loughborough team, do they all have pro contracts with Premiership clubs? I haven't seen him play, apart from that 10 minutes vs Bedford - how promising is he? Well he's in t...

Why on earth have we let Meredith go? He's a promising 10 who's just led Loughborough to a BUCS title, with a kicking tee record of something mad, like 97%. Wilkinson has had no chances and Pollard will be away for a fair bit of next season. Are we going to persist with Shillcock at 10 for those ti...

didn't the A league fold as it was too costly? Not really. It only actually died a full death with covid. It was run down because several clubs (notably Irish & Wasps) consistently failed to put out any kind of side or support it at all, filling their sides with guests whose main selection crit...

Senior academy is 18-24 and under 50K a year. Tom Manz is still only 22 this season so technically could have another 2 years in the dev squad Good point, I've just re-checked the regulations and they are more generous than I'd thought. They are about being 24 years old (inclusive) on 1st September...

Because there is a seperate cap for Senior Academy guys than the main squad, the club want to keep as many as possible in the Senior Academy cap to allow more cap to be spent elsewhere, being in the Senior Academy does not restrict appearances in the senior team, so I suspect Carnduff and Woodward ...

Costelow only has 12 Welsh caps so unless he is going to stop his international career he won't be coming back anytime soon unless the WRU throw the towel in with the cap ruling. Would like to know how hard we tried to persuade him to stay at Tigers. 3 games in the summer, 4 in Autumn, 5 in the 6N,...

I always think on the big players you want them settled down. So on Pollard (presuming his contract finishes 2025) as soon as the season finishes I'd have two offers for him. 1) A contract extension for a further two seasons (to end in 2027) on good terms. 2) A transfer to a SA franchise. Basically ...

We're still a bit early days to be comparing business and squad sizes.

I know various people like the soundbites about stuff being done so far in advance but it's only the case for a few of the bigger pieces.