LEICESTER TIGERS 2022/23 - Prisoner of Oadby Pre-Season

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Re: LEICESTER TIGERS 2022/23 - Prisoner of Oadby Pre-Season

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His first game was v Worcester @4
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Re: LEICESTER TIGERS 2022/23 - Prisoner of Oadby Pre-Season

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Telegraph reporting Matera is definitely going to Japan, not to us or Bath.

https://archive.ph/Nvw0o
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Re: LEICESTER TIGERS 2022/23 - Prisoner of Oadby Pre-Season

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I don’t think he was ever actually linked to us outside of pure speculation on here.

Although 1 million a season is a lot of coin
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Re: LEICESTER TIGERS 2022/23 - Prisoner of Oadby Pre-Season

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sam16111986 wrote: Wed Jul 06, 2022 1:56 pm
Don't think he's played lock for the first team since. Like Liebenburg he could do a job there but is better suited to the backrow.
I think SB agrees with you and has decided there are better options at lock. Martin offers so much more as a 6 anyway that he might not have the chance to do if he was in the locks and, as we saw last season, has the potential to do a job at 8, particularly with tutors such as Wiese and Liebenberg.
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Re: LEICESTER TIGERS 2022/23 - Prisoner of Oadby Pre-Season

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TigerFeetSteve wrote: Wed Jul 06, 2022 4:14 pm Telegraph reporting Matera is definitely going to Japan, not to us or Bath.

https://archive.ph/Nvw0o
Makes sense. He's going to be in the RWC squad unless injured, so may as well take the $$$ whilst available and potentially take a contract in Europe after the RWC.
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Re: LEICESTER TIGERS 2022/23 - Prisoner of Oadby Pre-Season

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Ever weakening pound doesn’t help tho Euro isn’t much better.
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Re: LEICESTER TIGERS 2022/23 - Prisoner of Oadby Pre-Season

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There is a slight worry if Sale do lose the Du Preez twins that someone like Martin is a perfect target for them.
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Re: LEICESTER TIGERS 2022/23 - Prisoner of Oadby Pre-Season

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Merry go round in France. Woki to Racing and Du Preez as a replacement.

Cant see Martin leaving.
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Re: LEICESTER TIGERS 2022/23 - Prisoner of Oadby Pre-Season

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RagingBull wrote: Wed Jul 06, 2022 7:08 pm There is a slight worry if Sale do lose the Du Preez twins that someone like Martin is a perfect target for them.
I have had that slight worry in my head. Martin is a very good player with an extremely high ceiling. Does he want to be riding the bench in big games?
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I still believe long term we’ll end up with Martin and Chessum as our lock pairing. I don’t have too much fear of losing Martin, I think if anyone came sniffing, the club would let one of the senior locks go and shuffle the budget to bump Martin up. I think at the minute it just suits all parties to have him as a 4/5/6 hybrid.
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FrontRowUnionMember wrote: Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:41 pm I still believe long term we’ll end up with Martin and Chessum as our lock pairing. I don’t have too much fear of losing Martin, I think if anyone came sniffing, the club would let one of the senior locks go and shuffle the budget to bump Martin up. I think at the minute it just suits all parties to have him as a 4/5/6 hybrid.
I'm less sure about that.

I think long term it'll be Chessum and Henderson as our starting lock pairing. I think Martin will become our no.6 or no.8
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Re: LEICESTER TIGERS 2022/23 - Prisoner of Oadby Pre-Season

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ABClub wrote: Wed Jul 06, 2022 8:58 pm
RagingBull wrote: Wed Jul 06, 2022 7:08 pm There is a slight worry if Sale do lose the Du Preez twins that someone like Martin is a perfect target for them.
I have had that slight worry in my head. Martin is a very good player with an extremely high ceiling. Does he want to be riding the bench in big games?
He's literally 21 years old (birthday on the final) and just won the title, playing loads for his home town club.

There is a less than zero chance he thinks even remotely like that. He played in 22 from 26 games he was fit for (and for all we know some of those earlier 4 games could have been covid or minor injuries).
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If pre-season starts next week for the non-internationals are we anticipating hearing about the academy promotions today?
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Re: LEICESTER TIGERS 2022/23 - Prisoner of Oadby Pre-Season

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RagingBull wrote: Wed Jul 06, 2022 2:31 pm His first game was v Worcester @4
:smt023 I'd forgotten about that PRC game. Was thinking Prem debut.
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Re: LEICESTER TIGERS 2022/23 - Prisoner of Oadby Pre-Season

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I'm not worried about the Martin situation, I think the club are being cautious with him. Am I right in thinking he had a significant injury and concussion this season? I'd like to see him play more but I'm also happy not to see a young player get flogged and end up broken.

I think we'll see more of him next season FWIW.
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