Related Research Articles
Leicester Tigers are a professional rugby union club based in Leicester, England. They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby.
Richard Cockerill is an English rugby union coach and former player and was most recently the manager of Top 14 side Montpellier. He was the England national team's interim head coach between Eddie Jones and Steve Borthwick. He played as a hooker, spending the majority of his career at Leicester Tigers where he played 255 games over two spells, he won 27 caps for England and was included in the 1999 Rugby World Cup squad. He won five league titles, two European Cups and two domestic cups as a player.
Graham Christopher Rowntree is an English rugby union former player and current head coach of Irish club Munster. He played loosehead prop for Leicester Tigers and England. He was capped 54 times for England, despite having to compete for his position with one of the world's most capped forwards, Jason Leonard. Rowntree was born in Stockton-on-Tees. He was educated at John Cleveland College, Hinckley, Leicestershire, which has also produced other rugby union players.
Richard Eric Peter Wigglesworth is an English rugby union coach and former professional player. He is the record appearance maker for Premiership Rugby, he played for Sale Sharks, Saracens and Leicester Tigers. He has won Seven Premiership titles, one with Sale, five with Saracens, and one with Leicester as well as three European Rugby Champions Cups with Saracens. Between 2008 and 2018 he won 33 caps for England. In his career he has played over 400 club games.
Richard Blaze is an English rugby union forwards coach and former player who played Lock for Leicester Tigers and Worcester Warriors. Due to his early retirement from the game, Blaze is widely known as one of the youngest but most experienced coaches in premiership rugby.
Thomas Nicholas Youngs is a retired rugby union player who played as a hooker for Leicester Tigers and England. Between 2012–2015 he won 28 caps for England, including selection for the 2015 Rugby World Cup and was selected for the 2013 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia where he played in all three test matches. He played 215 times for Leicester between 2006 and 2021, winning the Premiership Rugby title in 2013, the same season that he was named as the league's Player of the season. He also won the 2011-12 Anglo-Welsh Cup with Leicester. Between 2009 and 2011 Youngs played 55 matches for Nottingham where he converted from centre to hooker.
Daniel Richard Cole is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a prop for Premiership Rugby club Leicester Tigers and the England national team.
Etuale Manusamoa Tuilagi is a professional rugby union player who plays as a centre for Premiership Rugby club Sale Sharks. Born in Samoa, he represents England at international level after qualifying on residency grounds.
Stephen Paul Redfern is an English former rugby union and professional rugby league player in the 1970s and 1980s. He played one test for England in 1984, and between 1976 and 1984 played club rugby for Leicester Tigers. His position was tighthead prop. He then played professional rugby league for Sheffield Eagles, but injury limited him to only 9 appearance.
Michele Rizzo is a retired Italian former rugby union player. His preferred position was prop but he can also play as a hooker. Rizzo last played for Petrarca, the club where he spent most of his career and where he made his debut in Serie A1 halfway through the 2000–01 season in a match against Viadana. He spent four years between 2014–2018 in England playing 38 times for Leicester Tigers.
Samuel James Harrison is an English former rugby union footballer who played 178 games as a scrum-half for Leicester Tigers between 2008 and 2020.
Edward Nicholas Slater is a former English rugby union player who played at lock.
Logovi'i Mulipola is a Samoan rugby player who plays prop for Saracens in Premiership Rugby.
Owen Williams is a Welsh professional rugby union player who plays as a fly-half for the Ospreys. He has represented Wales and Wales U20.
Ryan Thomas Eyre Bower is an English professional rugby union player for Dallas Jackals in the US competition Major League Rugby. He has played for Leicester Tigers, Worcester Warriors and London Irish in Premiership Rugby, and for Nottingham in the RFU Championship. Bower's principal position is loosehead prop.
Ellis Genge is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a prop for Premiership Rugby club Bristol Bears and the England national team.
Benjamin James White is a professional rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half. Until the end of the 2022–23 season he was at Gallagher Premiership club London Irish, before the demise of the club in June 2023. He then agreed terms to join Top 14 club Toulon from the 2023–24 season. Though born in England, White represents Scotland at international level after qualifying on ancestry grounds.
Ben Betts is an Irish rugby union player for Nottingham in the RFU Championship, the second division of English rugby union. During his rugby career, Betts, a prop, has also played for English clubs Leicester Tigers, Loughborough Students, Ealing Trailfinders, and Doncaster Knights, as well as spending time on loan in Australia with Sydney University. Internationally, Betts represented his native Ireland at under-20 level.
Kehinde Oluwatomisin O. "Jordan" Olowofela is an English rugby union player who plays centre or wing for Nottingham. He previously played for Leicester Tigers, in Premiership Rugby and on loan for Loughborough Students in National League 1, Western Force in Australia's Super Rugby AU and Dragons in the URC, and for England Under-20s.
Joseph Connor Rhys Heyes is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a prop for Premiership Rugby club Leicester Tigers and the England national team. He was a Premiership Rugby champion in 2022.
References
- ↑ "Owen Hills". ESPN. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
- 1 2 "Leicester Tigers starlet Owen Hills insists injury won't derail his England dream". Talking Rugby Union. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
- ↑ "Bainbridge joins England U20 squad". England Rugby. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
- ↑ "Leicester Tigers: Richard Cockerill trusts youngsters to 'step up'". BBC. 14 August 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
- ↑ "TRIPLE PROP SIGNING". Nottingham Rugby. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2020.