Leicester Tigers

Runner-up to Saints?!

I'm sure AWJ's tears were genuine ( he's a passionate man perhaps playing his finale) and maybe professional Northern Hemisphere rugby players do still think of Lions' selection as the "pinnacle" but when I look at the 15 names who started the 3rd Test on Saturday, my gut feeling is that i...

Was it really worth it? I'm sure the players and officials were well paid and I guess that Sky managed to wrap enough advertising around the coverage but tbh it was a pretty joyless experience watching it. The Boks first try in the 2nd Test and Russell's transformative effect on Lions' play in the 3...

The "league table" is quite interesting and the club that stands out for me, is Quins. They seemed to have achieved their success without (essentially) a head coach and without splashing the cash. That earns a cheer from me!

Do we think that the ambitious plans announced by Leicester City Football Club have implications for us? The main features of the plans include increasing capacity to 40,000 and the construction of a 220 bed hotel. They are just plans at the moment; they could be modified and they may never happen b...

Too naffng cold for more than a year!

Whenever a Lions team is published a question always seems to pop up in my mind. (Firstly full disclosure: I am a Lions sceptic always have been. It seems faintly ridiculous to me that four home nations gang up to play one SH nation). Anyway the question I ask myself is would that selected Lions tea...

I see that Murimurivalu was yellow carded and that both he and Nadolo were off the pitch before the end. Anyone know whether their departure was tactical or injury-related?

Yes but Popeye was always saved in the nick of time by his trusty can of spinach and a blow on his pipe!

Cancelled. It was always as daft an idea as a football tour of Brazil or a cricket tour of India. It was a daft idea driven by the public's (understandable) desire to "return to normality" before it was remotely possible and, I assume, media companies' greed

Nice front row!
Nice half backs!
Nice back line!
And the Second Row won't let anyone down!

Sorry to hear this. I met him once at The Stoop - years ago - when he and Stuart Barnes were covering tbe Quins/Tigers match. We'd arrived early at the ground and he was standing outside the commentary box. He was very chatty, very friendly - seemed a regular guy with no media person aloofness.

Big boys. Props & Locks presumably!

Harlequins and Exeter - right finalists for me. Harlequins for the most fantastic come back in play off history ( don't think that's hyperbole!) and rather pleased that Bristol got their comeuppance after the last ten minutes of our game. And I'm an Exeter fan ( after us, of course) because in an ag...

Tbh I hadn't fully grasped that Super Rugby had shrunk down to just being an Anzac competition. As far as I can understand it the new plans are intended to be permanent and not just interim Covid measures.