Leicester Tigers

We don't receive income from it. Not so, the land the Hotel sits on is owned by the club and is leased to the hotel operator. Long term lease for which a premium was paid plus low annual rent or a shorter one with higher annual rent? If the hotel operator is paying for construction I would expect t...

If I was him I don't think I'd be very tempted. Cockers has nothing left to prove in the Premiership and he seems to have a good thing going in Edinburgh. There's nothing particularly exciting about the Glouc job other than the strong fan base and the team there likely needs a whole new rebuild. Ag...

JP14 wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2020 1:22 pm Rob Howley as a replacement? Give me a break.

Are you a betting man?

strawclearer wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 12:22 pm

voice of the crumbie wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 8:08 am All these rumours. Some may come true some won't.

“Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.”

Can't beat a bit of Lear on a rugby forum!

Quite...particularly when most of the rumours are more Edward Lear than Will Shakespeare’s one!

Crofty wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2020 11:42 am ...If so it's far more than we deserve from him after the way the club treated him in the end...

Couldn’t agree more, but the same article does note Cockers’ latest signings, including Ben Muncaster.

Pretty fair judge of rugby players, that Cockers.

... General rumour in Edinburgh is that they couldn't compete with the money Leicester offered. The Sunday Times has an article on Scott; seems he accepted an offer to stay but Cockers couldn’t balance the books and recommended him to Geordie. “We have a budget to stick to,” said Cockerill. “Matt w...

Including Tigers!! “ Rugby Union is facing a devastating financial blow after medical guidelines released by the sport's governing body stated matches should be played behind closed doors until a vaccine exists for Covid-19.” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2020/05/04/rugby-played-behind-clo...

Guy Thompson to Ealing Also rugby paper saying Bath are interested in Toomua. Great to hear about Guy Thompson Bath may be interested in Toomua , some how cant see Toomua being interested in Bath ; not out of any 'loyalty' to ourselves (in spite of the initial contract extension spin) simply the tr...

kk20gb30 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:26 pm Ulster:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/northern-ireland/52383751

That’s very big hearted of them...given they got a Government grant to extend it!

JP14 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:22 am Browning could be the next Tom Varndell in my opinion but we can’t just leave it on his shoulders next season...

And with social distancing there won’t be an opportunity to teach him how to tackle before next season.

Scrummaging wise, the only edge Marler has is experience and nous, nothing else in my opinion. Yes I agree,there are some clever TH out there. I remember playing Saints and Paul Hill wasnt taking the hit and Genge was going straight to ground. Penalty to us but Hill was disguising it well and conne...

The concerns over contracts are; 1) If the season is extended does the player take up the new contract immediately and potentially play against his old club? (This also means that the club that started the season doesn't finish it in terms of registration) 2) If the old club insists he stays and fu...

..... The allegations relate to him visiting a brothel in London in March last year. This isn't the same thing as last time though the article does drag that up at the end. Bit of a slow news week. Without looking too hard, the Torygraph and the Bun had this story as well. I’m certain that the avai...

MurphysLaw wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:53 pm .... So why did the Board go through the (drawn out and presumably, not inexpensive) process of trying to sell?

Perhaps because 1) Peter Tom ain’t getting any younger and 2) he probably looks at this MB.

This match was a cracker! 1991 World Cup Q Final France v England in Paris. Good job there were no TMOs in those days or there wouldn't've been many players left on the pitch! https://youtu.be/t00-5tc05ng Agree, went with one son, stayed in a hotel in St Germain en Laye near where we had lived a fe...