Leicester Tigers

https://www.coolasleicester.co.uk/tigers-view-premiership-rugby-preview/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFarxVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHfNzrAdI3Vx1gQft9Hrvzv39rzVydF8HD2JUgnhY4oZQ6LEiZ_IRDe3s5Q_aem_dpfQAEy_DcCWWp3A5uvVdw See the link for my season preview for Cool as Leicester, any thoughts greatly appreciated. If you thin...

Has anyone heard an update about Lewis Chessum's injury? not that there has been much social media footage floating about in the off season I've not seen hide nor hair of him for months? I had heard on the grapevine he may have had a falling out with the club but in all the talk of second row injur...

Premiership Rugby's problem is that they sold a big stake to C.V.C and then blew most of that money due to the pandemic and historic debt. C.V.C has not produced the improved T.V deals etc they promised but are of course taking the cut of current income that their investment allows. Yes, and you ha...

The URC deal is worth quite a lot of money with the SA franchises onboard https://www.reddit.com/r/rugbyunion/comments/1cyw0ex/value_of_broadcast_deals_in_rugby/ I don't think kicking SA teams out is a goer. That "valuation" is basically a myth. It was reported once, unattributed, in the ...

The URC deal is worth quite a lot of money with the SA franchises onboard https://www.reddit.com/r/rugbyunion/comments/1cyw0ex/value_of_broadcast_deals_in_rugby/ I don't think kicking SA teams out is a goer. That "valuation" is basically a myth. It was reported once, unattributed, in the ...

Is The Hundred really working though? Viewing figures are declining and the sale value is now expected to be much lower than hoped. Surely we already have the equivalent, called Sevens? Which no one is really interested in... Did cricket decline because it moved away from free TV? Or did it move aw...

I think the lessons to learn from cricket are that you need terrestrial reach to keep your place in the zeitgeist but that you can sell rather a large portion of your soul if the TV rights are large enough. If we sold the ITV section of the rights to Sky for £150m a year, & the BBC retained the ...

Is it me or have we lost a decent bit of our southern boundary to saints in this new catchment zones? This was the old boundaries from what I could make out at the time: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GK1Fx4GW8AEYjIw?format=jpg&name=medium One thing in the old system which I imagine they will reta...

Ireland quite aggressively chase IQ players to fill their depth chart. Addison, Haley, Billy Burns, Marmion, Treadwell off the top of my head. Kelly has been flagged and will be chased, particularly as with the one & done switch if they give him 1 cap he can never play for England again. If Engl...

Woodward came off when Steward came on, he did pretty much play full back.

Or at least that's what it looked like to me.

BACKS (14) Freddie Steward Mike Brown Josh Bassett Malelili Satala Ollie Hassell-Collins Solomone Kata Dan Kelly Izaia Perese Will Wand Joseph Woodward Ben Volavola Jack van Poortvliet Tom Whiteley Ben Youngs FORWARDS (16) Nicky Smith James Whitcombe Charlie Clare Finn Theobald-Thomas Archie Vanes ...

That's literally in the second paragraph, not the first. If you read further down, it also states that "selection decisions for club rugby will stay with the club directors of rugby". That's pretty clear, isn't it? I think you're being a bit over dramatic. We haven't sold our souls, we've...

Was listening to the radio on way home and they were saying that Chelsea FC will play around 80 matches during the season. The attendances will be high and the games probably televised. Football has a bigger audience globally and the infrastructure to support its existence. Rugby does not have the ...

"with Borthwick getting the "final say on all sports science and medical matters"." Literally in the first paragraph. Rest is a medical/sports science matter. Borthwick will be able to force us to rest players in his sainted 25, at his own whim, and with seemingly no comeback av...

"with Borthwick getting the "final say on all sports science and medical matters"." Literally in the first paragraph. Rest is a medical/sports science matter. Borthwick will be able to force us to rest players in his sainted 25, at his own whim, and with seemingly no comeback av...