Heineken Cup Fixtures Released

3:00 PM Toulouse Away (Le Stadium)Sunday October 14th

3:00 PM Ospreys at home Sunday October 21st

3:40 PM Treviso at home Saturday December 8th

3:35 PM Treviso Away (Stadio Monigo) Saturday December 15th

All kick off times are in English and all games are to be shown on Sky.

Other fixtures are away to Ospreys on the weekend of the 11/12/13 January and home to Toulouse a week later

Brettman Returns, Tigers announce signing of Dynamic Duo

Tigers have announced the return of Leicester born Brett Deacon and new signing Pat Phibbs.  Deacon is well known to any Ultra SubMarine worth his salt and joins his brother in striving to emulate that other lock and back row pair of brothers: The Johnsons.  Pat Phibbs is a newer name arriving in Exeter after last years World Cup.  The 30 year old was deemed surplus to requirements at the ACT Brumbies before spending a year on Exeter's bench behind Coventry born Hayden Thomas. 

LV Cup Groups & Fixtures Announced

Today the LV Cup groups and fixtures were announced:

Pool 1: Harlequins, Exeter, Gloucester, Newport

Pool 2: Leicester, Sale, Worcester, Cardif

Pool 3: Saracens, London Irish, Wasps, Llanelli

Pool 4: Northampton, Bath, London Welsh, Ospreys

Pool 1 plays Pool 4 and Pool 2 plays Pool 4.

Tigers fixtures:

Saracens away November 10th
London Irish Home November 17th
Wasps Home January 26th
Llanelli away February 2nd

Former Tigers lift World Student 7s Title

Former Tigers academy players Dante Mama (Doncaster & Loughborough Students) and Sam Edgerley (Esher & UCL) played for GB students as they won the World University 7s series in Brive last week.

Tiger Cubs thoroughly bummed

The J.P. Morgan 7s series continued in usual fashion for Tigers as they once again failed to win a match succumbing to Saints in a closely fought encounter 26-24 before the two biggest defeats in the series history.  Beating our record from last year we lost 50-5 against Sale before London Welsh heaped more humiliation on the Tiger Cubs beating them 52-5.

Commendable performances: Joe "Co" Cain, Tom Hudson and Alex Lewington.

Waste of space: Alex Wooldridge, thanks for trying but fuck off and never darken my door again.

Pasqualle's Dunn In as Jones gets a Luke in.

A injury to Pasqualle Dunn has forced him out of tonight's J.P. Morgan 7s.  He is replaced by Luke Jones.

Jones is a winger from Guernsey, signing to the academy this summer after a season of mens rugby.

Opponents for J.P. Morgan 7s announced

London Welsh:

1. Ben Seru
2. Gerhard Vessells
3. Tom Rees
4. Iolo Evans
5. Michael Hills (Capt)
6. Peceli Nacamavuto
7. Aaron Myers
8. Rhys Howells
9. Ed Tellwright
10. Chris Banfield
11. Rhodri McAtee
12. Geraint Walsh 

Northampton Saints:

1 Ethan WALLER
2 Jack ALLCOCK
3 Darrell DYER
4 Tom COLLINS
5 Tom STEPHENSON
6 Ryan GLYNN
7 Alex WOOTTON
8 Alex WOOLFORD
9 Will HOOLEY
10 Alex DAY
11 Anders MOGENSEN
12 Howard PACKMAN

Sale Sharks:

 

1.Will Bordill

2.Tom Cruse

3.James Doyle

4.Will Hafu

5.Mark Easter (capt.)

6.Mark Jennings

7.Jordan Davies

8.Will Cliff

9.Tom Brady

10.Charlie Amesbury

11.Johnny Leota

12.Will Addison

Squad for J.P. Morgan 7s announced

Tigers squad for J.P. Morgan 7s announced

1 Matt Cornwell (c)
2 Andy Symons
3 Alex Lewington
4 Pasqualle Dunn
5 Tom Hudson
6 Joe Cain
7 Harry Wells
8 George Oliver
9 Tom Bellak
10 Harrison Lee-Everton
11 Lawrence Wooldridge
12 Brock Davies

Lawrence Wooldridge and Brock Davies are new players.

Davies is an Aussie League player last seen playing for Montpelier.

Brock Davies audition video:

 Wooldridge is more of a mystery.  Seems to be 400m runner and part time 7s player.

Ex-Tiger joins Lazio

Ex-Tiger David Young (3 Starts, 10 Sub appearances) has agreed to join Lazio in the Italian Super 10.  He will also be available for Zebre should they require.

Tigers Sign Millfield School Boy

Millfield and Lambridge Full Back Tom Bellak has joined the Academy.

 
Follow him on twitter at:
@tombellak

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