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Rory Underwood wings into the Walk of Legends

November 14th, 2008 by admin0 | 5 Comments | Filed in guinness premiership

Rugby great Rory Underwood has been named in the Leicester Tigers Walk of Legends.

Former Tigers and England star Underwood is reunited with former team-mate Dusty Hare as the first two names in the club’s Walk of Legends after winning the supporters’ vote.

Underwood scored 134 tries for Tigers between 1983 and 1993, and is England’s leading try-scorer with 49 in 85 internationals.

Now a Leicester Tigers director, he said: “I am very honoured and very proud that the Tigers fans have inducted me into the Walk of Legends team.

“Looking at the work on the stadium, I am really excited about the new Caterpillar Stand and to have your name out on the front is going to be fantastic.”

Underwood and Hare will be added to the Tigers Walk of Legends on the approach to the new Caterpillar Stand, which opens next season and will take capacity in the stadium up to 24,500.

The Walk of Legends is being filled week by week with voting available through the Leicester Mercury newspaper and website. This week supporters will find Tigers’ legendary outside centre from a shortlist of Ralph Buckingham, Brian Hall, Leon Lloyd and Clive Woodward.

Supporters can secure their place in the history and future of Leicester Tigers by buying a brick in the Walk of Legends, complete with a personalised message, and see it laid alongside the club’s heroes.

Add a name, celebrate a birthday or buy a place in the Walk of Legends for a friend or relative as a perfect Christmas gift for a Tigers supporter. You can also buy a replica to keep at home. For more details see the club website at www.leicestertigers.com

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HEINEKEN CUP IS THE REAL BUSINESS SAYS HEYNEKE MEYER

October 14th, 2008 by admin0 | No Comments | Filed in Heineken Cup

Heyneke Meyer has had his first taste of Heineken Cup rugby – and he cannot wait for another helping when he takes his Leicester Tigers team to Italy to meet Benetton Treviso at Stadio Cimunale di Monigo on Saturday.

The Tigers dug deep to hang on and beat the Ospreys 12-6 at Welford Road and, although the match was not a try fest, the new man at the helm was more than pleased.

“It was an awesome experience and atmosphere and – although there were a few butterflies before the start – I am very happy,” said the man who led the Blue Bulls to five successive Currie Cup finals and took the Super 14 title to South Africa in 2007.

“From my point of view it is great to be involved in what is clearly a very tough and physical competition, but what is important is that you concentrate on every single game and give your opponents respect and that is what we will be doing before playing Treviso at the weekend.

“You have to get points from every single game and it is not about getting bonus points but more about winning every single game.

“The Heineken Cup was one of the attractions for me coming to work in Europe. It is a huge challenge for any team as it’s a round-robin competition and a knock-out all in one. That makes it a really tough competition to win and you need to be 100 per cent in every game.

“Against the Ospreys we played very well in first half but should have scored more tries but we didn’t and that just shows the quality of this competition – if you don’t take your chances you are always under pressure.

“There is certainly a greater intensity in the Heineken Cup and the players really had to lift their standards because the Ospreys are a very good side. It was a much quicker game than the ones earlier this season and there was much more rugby so it is a great competition.

“There is no doubt the Heineken Cup is going to grow in stature and get better and better because so many of the world’s top players are involved.”
Heineken man of the match Tigers lock Tom Croft added: “We have got the points we needed from this game and now we will focus on what we need to do to win at Benetton.

“And there are certainly no easy games in the Heineken Cup anymore. If you turn up expecting to win they will turn you over so we will be focusing very hard on Treviso, on their strengths and weaknesses and to see how we can break them down.

“Against the Opsreys we had a few chances to score which we did not take but the positive thing is that we are starting to open up defences.
“We are getting try scoring opportunities and we just need to work on that final pass, which can be rectified in training, and take that into the next game against Treviso.”

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