Inside rugby: Credit to Cockers, it must be hard to admit...

Director of rugby Richard Cockerill has always maintained that Leicester Tigers are too big a club to be able to afford a 'transition season'. He is not being arrogant when he says that. He just means that he, and the rest of the club, cannot afford to say that 'next year' will be successful. Cockerill knows that the expectation at Tigers means they have to be successful this year – and every year. If ever there was a season when it looks like Leicester were in transition, however, this..., Inside rugby: Credit to Cockers, it must be hard to admit...