Leicester Tigers

I know it didn't go down too well on here when i suggested it last time, but i do stand by thinking that we need to look at upgrading Harry Wells. I appreciate he is a good club man, but the last 2 games against Gloucester he was completely ineffective. Tbh i'd say the same about the Ealing game as...

Thought Basham was mates with OHC at LI? Tbf I do agree somewhat about Hatherell. If he could rediscover the form he had for Worcester / La Rochelle I’d have no problems with him starting. He showed then he was a great carrier. Something he hasn’t quite shown in a Tigers shirt yet but the ability i...

Does anybody know how the summer series to Japan and NZ will impact the start of the 24/25 season? Will the internationals miss preseason again next time due to a rest period? Presuming a start date of September 28th the players used in the final test would miss the pre-season matches & the fir...

as per the Sam Carter thread, apparently back in Australia already.

It's a shame if Ollie Smith just gave the game up. I remember being amazed when he didn't get a contract. He looked like a brilliant talent. From memory, I saw Kit Smith on the Lough pages, then he was with Cov around the same time just after leaving Tigers. Did he just not turn out for either? Was...

Edwards only really got a chance against Saints at home in Jan 2023, I thought he played really well for his first big game. If I was him though I'd leave, they clearly don't rate him and he's not *that* young any more. From 4th choice he'd need two injuries to even make the matchday squad, so it's...

As soon as we start saying ‘we need this player, we need that player’ we are in trouble. The best coaches don’t make excuses like that. They make teams more than the sum of their parts. At the moment Leicester are less than the sum of their parts and in a competitive league, with no financial advan...

Edwards only really got a chance against Saints at home in Jan 2023, I thought he played really well for his first big game. If I was him though I'd leave, they clearly don't rate him and he's not *that* young any more. From 4th choice he'd need two injuries to even make the matchday squad, so it's ...

Unless this is an exceptional TV deal, it could be damaging for some clubs with fans choosing to drop Season Tickets and see a drop off in attendances at games? Particularly if they have the right to mess about with kick off times for all games & we get a big increase in the unpopular Sunday ga...

With Carter likely to go to Western Force & two definite international locks, with a third likely, I'd be looking to replace Wiese cap-wise with a lock. You use a lot more of them than you think & they are very important. Even with Chessum jnr & Carnduff coming through I think there will...

TBH looks more like an old fashioned scoop & Tigers trying a slightly different strategy on their announcements of spacing them out now!

One thing I am a little surprised by is that Beets was a solo announcement. We usually like to store up good news & release in a little run. Especially for players who are quite low profile. Think someone mentioned earlier Tigers announcement seemed to be a reaction to the news coming out in th...

However that article saying we had signed him also listed two other names that we'd signed Exactly, and we aren't usually driven by the papers printing anything. It's not like it's particularly amazing news where we'd want to confirm it to get positive press either e.g. when we signed Pollard to re...

One thing I am a little surprised by is that Beets was a solo announcement. We usually like to store up good news & release in a little run. Especially for players who are quite low profile.

Tin Hat on here but I don’t see anything wrong with any of that and it’s what a number of different discussion threads have been calling for for years. Doesn’t affect the fundamentals of the game but speeds it up and gets rid of a number of existing issues, Croc roles, extended mauls etc. For me th...