Neil Antony Back MBE is a former international rugby union footballer for England and the British & Irish Lions who also played for Nottingham RFC, Leicester Tigers, and captained both England and Leicester during his career.
The standard modern rugby union numbering schemes have the starting players numbered from 1 to 15, and the replacements numbered 16 onwards. Rugby union players have not always been identified by individual labels, nor have the systems used always been the same.
Harry Alistair Ellis is an English former rugby union footballer who played scrum half for Leicester Tigers, England and the British & Irish Lions.
Haydn Tanner was a Welsh international rugby union player who represented both Wales and the British and Irish Lions. At club level he played for several top-flight teams, including Bristol, Cardiff, Swansea, London Welsh and the Barbarians.
Jean de Villiers is a South African former professional rugby union player. He started his career at wing, but played most of his career as an inside centre. De Villiers previously played for Western Province in the Currie Cup, the Stormers in Super Rugby, Leicester Tigers in Premiership Rugby and internationally for South Africa, for whom he was named captain in June 2012.
Scott Elliot Hamilton is a New Zealand international rugby union player, who plays both on the wing or at fullback; he played two times for the All Blacks in 2006 and has played for the Crusaders in Super Rugby and Canterbury in the NPC. New Zealand's provincial competition. Hamilton moved to Leicester Tigers in 2008 where he played 142 games in 7 seasons winning three Premiership Rugby titles in 2009, 2010 and 2013.
Benjamin Ryder Youngs is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half for Premiership Rugby club Leicester Tigers, and is the all time appearance record holder with 127 caps for the England national team.
The 2002 Heineken Cup Final was the final match of the 2001–02 Heineken Cup, the seventh season of Europe's top club rugby union competition. The match was played on 25 May 2002 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff; this was the third time the final had been played in Cardiff after the 1996 and 1997 finals, but the first since the opening of the Millennium Stadium, which was built on the site of the old Cardiff Arms Park for the 1999 Rugby World Cup.
Frank William Whitcombe, also known by the nickname of "The Big Man", was a Welsh rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s. He played rugby union (RU) for Cardiff RFC, London Welsh RFC, Aldershot Services and Army Rugby Union, as a prop, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, Rugby League XIII, and Wales, and at club level for Broughton Rangers and Bradford Northern, as a prop.
Aadel Kardooni is a British-Iranian former professional rugby union player.
Bleddyn Jones was a Welsh rugby commentator who worked principally for BBC Radio Leicester, commentating on Leicester Tigers matches since 1987. As a player, he made 333 appearances for Tigers, mostly at fly-half between 1969 and 1978, scoring 42 tries. He was not capped internationally. In his professional life he worked as a teacher. For the opening of the Caterpillar Stand at Welford Road in 2007, Jones was voted by readers of the Leicester Mercury into the "Walk of Legends" Team, ahead of Les Cusworth, Andy Goode and Joel Stransky. Bleddyn died on 27 April 2021, aged 72.
William Harry Hurrell is an English former rugby union player who played as a centre for London Welsh, Leicester, Coventry, Doncaster, Bristol Bears and Bath.
Logovi'i Mulipola is a Samoan rugby player who plays prop for Doncaster Knights in the RFU Championship.
Michael Noone is an Irish rugby union player from County Wicklow, Ireland currently playing for Clontarf
The 2012 New Zealand Māori rugby union tour of England was a series of three matches played by the Māori All Blacks in England.
Matías Moroni is an Argentine professional rugby union player who plays as a centre was released by Premiership Rugby club Newcastle Falcons at the end of the 23/24 season and the Argentina national team.
History of Leicester Tigers details the history of the rugby union club based in Leicester, England. Nicknamed the Tigers from 1885, Leicester have been a prominent club from the earliest days of organised English rugby dominating midlands rugby before the First World War; providing British Lions captains in 1930, 1936, 1997 and 2001; and winning 21 major titles since 1979 including a record 11 Premiership Rugby titles.
Charles Michael Thacker is an English rugby union centre who plays for Nottingham in the RFU Championship. He previously played for Leicester Tigers in Premiership Rugby.
Harry Andrew Simmons is an English rugby union scrum half or wing who plays for Leicester Tigers in Premiership Rugby. Born in Norwich Simmons first played rugby for Gresham’s School and Holt RFC in Norfolk before gaining experience at Loughborough Students. His regular playing positions are scrum half and Wing.
Jack Corstiaan van Poortvliet is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half for Premiership Rugby club Leicester Tigers and the England national team.
