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Leicester Tigers announce new Tuilagi deal

The new Aviva Premiership Rugby Champions the Leicester Tigers have announced that Manu Tuilagi, the England international centre, has signed a new long term contract with the club after agreeing terms over the new deal. The 22 year old, who is currently in Hong Kong with the British and Irish Lions, is a product of the youth system of the club and has scored 19 tries in just 62 appearances for the club, including a try in the club’s Aviva Premiership play-off final match against their arch rivals the Northampton Saints.

Richard Cockerill, the Director of Rugby of the club stated in a statement that the player is absolutely world class and he has taken on every challenge that has been thrown his way without the slightest hesitation in the last three years as a senior professional and it was important that the Leicester Tigers made their best efforts to hold on to the youngster and he is extremely pleased that he has agreed an signed the new deal.

Cockerill further mentioned that anyone who follows rugby knows what Tuilagi is capable of but the best thing about him is that he is still developing and maturing, so every season, he just keeps getting better and better and that could only mean good news for the club as well as the England team ahead of the 2015 Rugby World Cup on home soil.

Cockerill also admitted that Manu Tuilagi was thrilled to have been able to follow in the footsteps of his brothers into the club, before going on to add that the Leicester Tigers is his home and everyone at the club and the player himself is thrilled that the relationship between them will last for the foreseeable future as things can get only better from here now for both.

Flood urges Leicester Tigers teammates to bounce back

Toby Flood, the captain of the Aviva Premiership Rugby Football Union club the Leicester Tigers has urged his team mates to quickly get over the shattering loss they suffered at the hands of Toulon in the quarter finals of the Heineken Cup and look forward to the next matches that the club have in front of them. Leicester went into the game against the star studded French side as the underdogs, but they did their level best in pushing the French side to the limit before losing out eventually thanks largely to the brilliance of Jonny Wilkinson.

And according to the fly half of The Tigers, being out of the competition obviously hurts; but he did state that it makes him proud that the boys pushed Toulon to the limit. He further added that he was extremely proud of the way his side led the French powerhouse club for one complete half and the players deserve the due credit for the performances.

He mentioned that the Leicester Tigers players knew and appreciated the magnanimity of the task ahead of them but having pushed the French side so close to elimination, being knocked out in the end actually hurts more than it would actually have had they been thrashed. The Tigers opened the match in a blitzkrieg and went 9-0 ahead and held on to their lead till the break. But they eventually cracked after Toulon piled on the pressure in the second half.

Flood stated that the entire game was dictated by goal kicking. He stated that much of the game was played in the middle third of the park and while both sides had opportunities to score from open play, none actually managed to get over the white line and it was the brilliance of Wilkinson that proved too strong for the Leicester Tigers.