As Northampton Saints registered their maiden win in the ongoing Aviva Premiership season after beating Leicester Tigers 24-11, we take a look on few of the key points and player ratings from the encounter.
Northampton Saints managed to bounce back from their defeat to Saracens with a 24-11 victory over Leicester Tigers in their Aviva Premiership encounter at Franklin's Gardens on Saturday.
Leicester Tigers centre Manu Tuilagi's chances of making an England comeback has taken a major blow as he is likely to miss the autumn internationals following a knee injury.
Bath survived a late surge from Leicester Tigers in the final 10 minutes despite losing three players to sin-bin as they completed a 23-27 win in their opening encounter of the 2017/18 season of Aviva Premiership at Welford Road.
England international Manu Tuilagi made his first return in eight months for his club Leicester Tigers' during the pre-season friendly clash against Ospreys on Friday.
Leicester Tigers head coach Matt O'Connor believes Manu Tuilagi can bounce back from his latest setback that saw the Samoan-born professional rugby union player sent back from England training camp last week.
Aviva Premiership clubs Leicester Tigers and Gloucester Rugby have confirmed a swap deal involving Jonny May and Ed Slater ahead of the upcoming season.
Leicester have confirmed that injured trio of Matt Toomua, Manu Tuilagi and Logovi’i Mulipola are in line to return to action soon after making satisfying progress.
Replacement Josh Bassett scored a try in the 77th minute of the game as Wasps snatched a thrilling 21-20 victory against a spirited Leicester Tigers side in the semi-final of the Aviva Premiership at Ricoh Arena on Saturday.
Leicester Tigers head coach Matt O'Connor confirmed that hooker Tom Youngs wants to lead the Aviva Premiership club in the semi-final clash against Wasps at Ricoh Arena on Saturday.