Leicester Tigers

Going for everything undoubtedly took its toll last season as Irish and Leinster were undoubtedly fresher than we were in the GP and Heineken finals last season. Most of the ML teams treat the league as a secondary competition since HC qualification is a formality. A top six finish this season shou...

If staged at Murrayfield unless they pay punters to take tickets it will be 3/4 empty anyway. England and Ireland are the only games that do sell out up here The reason Murrayfield is full for the visits of England and Ireland is because of travelling fans of the away teams! And it is an unfortunat...

Whilst I am delighted to see the maul back in the game, we still haven't addressed the problem that caused the ELV experiment to be introduced, namely the ball carrier pushing the maul and hence the difficulty of defending it. The maul as we now know it was an innovation invented by the All Blacks i...

It's actually probably quicker by foot from the station than it would be by car - a gentle 20 minute walk.

Far from being a good idea Bonus points are just a GIMMICK and distort the league. It is absurd that Sale with a better playing record than Irish didn't qualify for the play-offs. I would happily dispense with them altogether, as I never like gimmicks (including play-offs). They might have a place i...

I can assure you that having watched the game Tom Croft was the pick of the back row by a distance: he made all his tackles, passed well on the few occasions he had the ball in hand in the open, didn't just flop to the ground when making yards, and turned the PIs over both at the breakdown and in th...