Premiership weekend review: If Leicester play with same ferocity they did to beat Wasps, Northampton will suffer
1 decade ago by The TelegraphIt will not matter what sort of side Northampton select on Saturday, if Leicester play with the same simmering intensity and passion as they did in Coventry, then they will be fiendishly difficult to...
Best of the weekend: upsets aplenty set up tantalising final round across Europe
1 decade ago by The Rugby BlogPlayoff race goes down to wire as Tigers and Chiefs win against the oddsWell, it’s a good job I’m not a betting man. Or, perhaps more honestly, this weekend showed why in the past I have been a...
Six of the Best - Aviva Premiership Try of the Season Shortlist
1 decade ago by Rugby DumpAs we come to the end of another weekend of domestic rugby, here is a look at some of the very best tries scored in the Aviva Premiership over the course of the 2014-2015 season. It's difficult to...
Wasps hopeful over Simpson injury
1 decade ago by BBC Rugby NewsWasps boss Dai Young is keeping fingers crossed that scrum-half Joe Simpson will be fit for next weekend's final round of Premiership fixtures. Simpson limped out of the final half hour of his...
Wasps 21 Leicester Tigers 26, match report: Tigers eye top four after hard-fought win in new derby
1 decade ago by The TelegraphYou write off Leicester at your peril. When the pressure is on – and it was most certainly on here with a place in the play-offs at stake in this new Midlands derby – they just know how to win. ...
Fourteen-man Tigers sting Wasps
1 decade ago by Rugby 365Wasps' hopes of a top-four finish came to an end as Adam Thompstone's first Premiership try of the season ensured 14-man Leicester Tigers secured a 26-21 victory. In front of a crowd of 32,019 at the...
Red card galvanised us - Cockerill
1 decade ago by Belfast Telegraph: Rugby09 May 2015The Tigers outscored the hosts three tries to nil in front of a record 32,019 crowd to move into third place on 64 points and boost their chances of a play-off place with one...
Leicester take sting out of Wasps
1 decade ago by Belfast Telegraph: Rugby09 May 2015The Tigers, who had centre Seremaia Bai sent off at the end of the first half, outscored Wasps three tries to nil and moved up one place to third in the standings on 64 points. Leicester...
Wasps v Leicester Tigers: We can't give them too much space,...
1 decade ago by Leicester MercuryLeicester Tigers will be "torn apart" by Wasps if they allow their talented back-line too much space, said winger Niall Morris. Wasps' backs have shown their finishing skills throughout the campaign...
Wasps scrum-half Joe Simpson will use head-to-head with Ben Youngs as launchpad to England World Cup squad
1 decade ago by Telegraph Rugby NewsThe Aviva Premiership judges have been swayed. Now for Stuart Lancaster. Joe Simpson was a popular choice as April player of the month and with a head-to-head against the England and Leicester scrum-half...
