Leicester Tigers

There also seems to me to be an issue of players effectively surrendering as soon as they get near to an opposition tackler. In the England game on Sat, Cueto was penalised for not releasing a tackled player when in fact he stayed on his feet and the "tackled" player went to ground with ef...

BT didn't have the best kicking game, obviously missing a penalty from virtually in front, isn't a great performance. He however clearly is capable of making a break and his passing is flat and fast. In other words he is an inside centre playing at FH. On a different tack I think we missed Toby more...

First Haka I saw was the Midland v's AB's at Welford Road 1979 or 1980 fantastic entertainment, crowd watched it then went wild. After AB's had beaten us, I got on the pitch with my dad and we walked past Billy Bush, he was a mountain man. Now we just see it too often, AB's here every year, on the T...

seems to me its all about the process crouch, touch (then an actual pause) the ref says pause then engage, is too long simplify it down to crouch then engage lessens the chance of an early engagement freekick and is still safe enough also skin tigh shirts for front row should be banned, if you have ...

Let's face it, he is a risk, but maybe a risk worth taking. I can't say I like the cult of personality that seems to surround him (particularly his off field life) but he was and could be again an absolutely fantastic rugby player. We have looked pretty ordinary so far this year ( I was there on Sat...

Bringing this back to the topic. It will be interesting to see if the Tigers rest players, after having nothing to gain except a pschological edge over Saracens. I rememebr a couple of year back when we trounced Wasps in the last game of the season and then got hammered in the final, so it certainly...

It seems to me that more than one factor must interact for a salary cap to be effective and balance the needs of the clubs with that of the TV companies, PRL and RFU. One thing which constantly gets my goat is that clubs seem to import second rate players from abroad rather than putting talented you...

If I hadn't have known the result, from the highlights I might have concluded that Harlequins won!

My guess would be, that after having a look at the Portmouth FC administrators report there will be a few other football and rugby clubs looking at their cash flow and wondering if they are the next to go into administration or an arrangement with their creditors! You can only "buy" succes...

Looked like he struggled a bit when he came on against London Irish. He had Geoff Parling behind him rather than Tom Croft or Callum Green, so should have had enough support. Perhaps he is not a natural impact player and needs time to "work on" his opposite number. Which leads me to anothe...

There are always plus and minus points when players move on and there have been some great points about the positive impact of players we have signed such as Parling and Woods. Personally I am concerned that the squad players we have are not actually good enough to help us through the times when the...

I couldn't be further away from Stuart Barnes if you put me on the moon! I just think Wilkinson lies too deep and his kicking out of hand at the moment is not up to standard, watch where the ball is hitting his foot when he is punting in open play. As for runners, I just don't think the centres have...

Suggested team for next match - Devils advocate of course 1, Mullan 2, Paice 3, Cole 4, Lawes 5, Parling 6, Dowson 7, Moody (capt) 8, Easter 9, Youngs 10, Flood 11, Ashton 12, Flutey 13, Hipkiss 14, Tait 15, Foden subs 16, Hartley 17, Golding 18, Robshaw 19, Hodgeson (P) 20, Strettle 21, Goode (A) R...

I have read some but not all of the preceding posts so please excuse me if I repeat anyone's point: 1, The team looked a shadow of the side that played against Gloucs. 2, Picking a kicking flyhalf in wet conditions (Staunton)acually makes sense if you kick and chase well. We didn't but they did. 3, ...

I'm coming to the game on Saturday, first time for a few years as I live in Essex and go to finals etc but don't make it back to Leicester that often. Always stood as a kid on the Crumbie terrace or behind the posts where the old mound was before they built the A&L. Bringing my elder brother who...