Saturday 16 October 2010

The Season So Far

We are five rounds into the Premiership season and two rounds into the Heineken Cup, and we're on the verge of getting into the autumn internationals, along with the LV Cup. Rugby is well and truly back!

As usual, Leicester has started the season off in haphazard form. That close call against Exeter at Welford Road in the first home match was enough to give me a heart attack! But Cockers seemed to put a rocket in the Tiger's arses at the half, and we managed to make it to 80 minutes in the lead.

Our main struggle has been at number 10. What was the management team thinking, letting Sam Vesty go? Now he's down in Bath, playing a top class game for one of our biggest rivals, while we have had Flood injured and soon to be off to international duty, and his back-up Staunton has been damaged as well. Twelvetrees has been giving it his best, learning as he goes, but he's still a young lad making young lad mistakes.

We have also lost vital experience in our forwards over the summer, with Lewis Moody going to Bath and Ben Kay moving to ESPN. Two new signings, George Skivington and Thomas Waldom, have proved to be excellent ones, and hopefully Jordan Crane will be back from injury very soon. It was excellent news to hear that Castro wants to spend the rest of his playing days with Leicester. Some say it's because he is about to open a second restaurant in the area. I don't mind. If it's what keeps him with us, he can open ten!

Tomorrow I'm off to Welford Road for our second Heineken Cup match. I hope to find a team that has improved its line out after a poor performance in that area last weekend. The Scarlets had a great match last weekend, and we can't afford to screw up our set piece, not to mention giving away the stupid penalties. We've been leaking them like a sieve so far this season!

More to look forward to in the next few weeks: our home match against Bath next weekend and a friendly against Australia in November!







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