TOM BRADSHAW: Leicester Tigers' Richard Cockerill deserves credit...

When Richard Cockerill entered the post-match press conference following Leicester Tigers’ 45-0 defeat by Bath Rugby, there was a solitary, low-seated chair sitting in the middle of the room.

“The execution chair,” he joked with the surrounding journalists.

“Guilty!”In the immediate aftermath of his side’s painfully one-sided loss to Bath, it said a lot about the Leicester director of rugby that he was able to take a wry look at such a humiliating defeat.

No-one would have felt the niggle of a nilling as much as Cockerill, but he was still able to enter the press conference with a ‘hello’ …

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