In tears. Genuinely.
Everything was thrown at us here. Everything. And that’s what these boys gave - everything.
Fuck the trophy. These boys have brought the badge back to life.
I love this club.
Apparently “playing like Leicester is boring!”
Well tonight we played like Leicester - heart, fight & streets smarts. Most importantly, we won!!!
The Leicester way. The only way.
YOU ARE WELCOME!!!
Coley - a rock today. As always. Didn’t let Porter get up to any of his tricks.
Gorgeous George - monumental. Brutally physical and looks a fixture in the side.
Ches - was worried about him at 6, but he was epic. Stepped up and was a warrior.
Proud of you, boys! 🌹
Happy New Year you lovely little sausages!
To celebrate, here’s
@olliechessum
seeing off his pint in his post game interview, no doubt toasting a cracking 2024 for our men’s & women’s sides…
@WatchBuffalo
8/10 - sound technique & speed,minor spillage, bonus point for head tap.
WHAT A WIN!
Ladies and gents, we are still alive in this league!
Despite TNT ignoring our own injury crisis, seemingly cheerleading every decision for Sarries, despite only being 50% accurate with our execution, we physically dominated Sarries today.
3 word reviews please 👇
Well,
@FreddieBurns
is the King of Leicester, but now we have a King of Paris as well.
Balls to their revolution, arise King Harry Fucking Wells!
Shaking. What a win. That young front row 😮💨 and all aboard the Vane Train™️ people.
3 word reviews, below!
Delighted to say that we finished 3rd in the Sports Podcast Awards!!
We finished behind the Manchester United & Spurs podcasts on The Athletic & beat the RFU & BBC’s entries!
Thank you everyone who voted we really appreciate it & thank you for your support always ❤️❤️❤️
Our Freddie.
Our Jack.
Our Dan.
Our Tony.
Our Ollie.
Our Ben.
Our boys have represented us so well this 6 Nations & have actually been our best players. We should be so proud of them, a credit to the club. 🟢🔴⚪️
Guilty as charged thanks to The King of Leicester
@FreddieBurns
!!
Absolute SCENES when that drop goal went over!!
And then 90 seconds later when he booted the ball off the park to make us Champions of England!
The champions of England showed their champions mentality this afternoon! What a win, what a group! We love this team!!
5 point win, 3 word reviews please!
🔥 It’s here! 🔥
The Ultimate Pro Era Tigers XV, as voted for by you!
1. Ayerza 🇦🇷
2. Montoya 🇦🇷
3. Cole 🏴
4. Johnson 🏴
5. Kay 🏴
6. Croft 🏴
7. Back 🏴
8. Wiese 🇿🇦
9. B Youngs 🏴
10. Ford 🏴
11. A. Tuilagi 🇼🇸
12. Howard 🇦🇺
13. M. Tuilagi 🏴
14. Healey 🏴
15. Murphy 🇮🇪
Let’s recap some of the under-25 names who have re-signed over the last 8 months:
Whitcombe
Dolly
Heyes
Chessum
Martin
JVP
Porter
Potter
Steward
That’s not just talent.
That’s a dynasty.
Great work by everyone at the club. We’re building something here…
Get. The. Fudge. In.
Jamie Shillcock has balls the size of spacehoppers.
He’ll need them to cushion his drunken fall later after Powell buys him all the beers at the bar tonight.
THREE WORD REVIEWS - Go!!! 👇
Fuck I hope we at least give Leinster a scare.
Absolutely zero respect coming from some quarters of their punditry. Reeking of arrogance.
Play a couple of the Irish podcasts in the changing rooms before the game, I reckon.
Elliot and I joked about whether or not the
@LeicesterTigers
media team would get more creative or emotional after a Tigers win.
The answer was never in doubt 😂
Here it is, voted for by you: the
@LeicesterTigers
Ultimate Pro Era XV (complete with bench and head coach of course).
Thank you to everyone who has voted and taken the time to tell us how angry they are at some of the selections.
Please feel free to tag and share far and wide!
Dear Ofcom, we’ve got a complaint. That defence from Tigers for the last 22 phases was effectively soft porn & shouldn’t be shown before the watershed!! 😂
Bloody hell, that’s twice that the boys have had to go to the well, leap into the abyss, and claw their way back out.
Massive effort - brilliant second half in particular.
Send us your three word reviews, you scallywags 👇
Congratulations to Sale, they deserved that win. Fine margins in the end, but the gutting thing will be the fact that mistakes ended up the difference - Sale made fewer of them.
We can be so proud of how the lads have fought back this year so, for the last time - 3 Word Reviews!
Happy 1 year anniversary of this special moment Tigers fans!!
One year since the best drop goal from the King of Leicester
@FreddieBurns
One year since the best commentary from the King of the Microphone
@andNickMullins
Hopefully Dan & the boys can get us to party next year!
THE GREATEST MOMENT IN FREDDIE BURNS' LIFE! 🤩
Comes on to replace an injured George Ford, picks up an injury himself, soldiers on, and kicks the drop-goal to win the match 🤯
Simply incredible!
#GallagherPremFinal
Morning Maulers
2 bits of good news:
1) We’re recording tonight
2) The reason for the delay was that Mike’s expected arrival made an appearance (eventually) 3 weeks early. Mum & baby recovering well.
@vixter15
- can I pre-book Evie in for Tigers Womens trials in 2040 please?
Sometimes think we take Welford Road for granted.
Look at how magnificent this place is, a proper gaff and it’s ours!
How good to be back home this weekend?!
😍😍😍😍
Bloody hell, change of pants required at Mike’s house.
Half an hour of unbearable tension, bordering on fear, and now I’m feeling as loose as a Ben Youngs box kick (what the hell happened there?!).
Three word reviews perlease 👇
Ahead of us recording tonight’s episode we’ve just chalked up our own achievement - 50k downloads!! Absolutely incredible so thank you everyone for listening in. Neither of us expected that when we launched this so huge thanks for all your support!
We asked, you delivered!
Thank you so much to everyone who sent us suggested designs - they were all fantastic. But a huge tip of the cap to
@jake_firth_
who nailed the brief with this beauty.
New logo inbound!
Ah bugger it, I’m taking pregnant wife and toddler out for grub because I’m still shaking and can’t cook after that.
We’re going to enjoy hearing your 3 word reviews for this one, gang. 👇
In tears. Genuinely.
Everything was thrown at us here. Everything. And that’s what these boys gave - everything.
Fuck the trophy. These boys have brought the badge back to life.
I love this club.
I really, really hope the boys go out big style tonight.
They’ve earned it.
I want to see pictures of Harry Simmonds, asleep and tied to a postbox by 5am.
🚨Tigers fans Roll Call🚨
For those travelling north.
Let’s do this. Julian & the boys will do their bit, we HAVE to do ours.
Bring your colours, bring your noise, bring your passion. Let’s back our boys from the first to the last.
Come on Leicester, we love you boys! 🐯🐯🐯
Looks like we’re nearing the end of Steve’s time in charge of the club (sob).
Whilst it’s sad that it’s over, let’s be happy that it happened. With that in mind, let’s hear your favourite moments from the Borthwick era!
Most importantly
#ThankYouSteve
Didn’t get a chance to listen before recording this week’s pod, but this is awesome insight into a brutal situation.
Huge credit to the boys for pulling together.
Plus,if enough of you like this,
@jimhamilton4
has promised to come on the pod. Can’t get past his agent currently!
Steve Borthwick and Kevin Sinfield leaving Leicester Tigers has had a big, emotional affect on the team.
@jaswiese
tells me about the moment the news dropped.
Well, well, well…
Unbelievably, we’ve been shortlisted for an award!
We’re nominated in the Best Team Podcast section by
@SportsPodGroup
, which is like the Oscars for podcasts but we’ll probably have to pay p&p for any trophy.
Please sign up and vote in the link below 👇
We didn’t see this one coming!
Absolutely gutted to lose a top man, but what an opportunity
@FreddieBurns
.
And an excuse to get up at silly o’clock to watch him play.
Long live the King of Leicester!
The club has agreed terms with Freddie Burns for an early release from his contract to pursue an opportunity in Super Rugby.
We will confirm a departure date in the coming days.
Sorry the request for three word reviews is a bit late.
Basically we got stuck into the beers pretty quickly after the game (some more than others, hey Elliott?!) and got carried away…
But send your 3 words over now!
Oh, and this happened 👇
19-20.
What. A. Fucking. Win.
Both sides missing players, felt we were harder hit in certain positions, but the boys digging in for their 3rd game in 18 days - after La Rochelle & Leinster - was an absolute credit.
Thoughts on players below, but let’s have your 3 word reviews!
Totally written off, disrespected in some quarters, playing against one of the best sides in the world away from home…
These are the days when you dig that bit deeper within yourself, and you just may find something special.
It’s a free shot. A chance to make history 💪
One last time in the Test arena…
Our own
@benyoungs09
, the most capped England Men’s player of all time, will make his final Test appearance on Friday night.
The whole
#TigersFamily
will be cheering you on, Lenny!
'...we weathered the storm in the first half... we talked about putting pride back in the Welsh jersey and showing what we're about... this is one of the best places I've ever played at' - Player of the Match Tommy Reffell
#SAvWAL
Right then team, that was a bit of alright!!
All in front of Super Dan McKellar & maybe a new attack coach!!
Wonder what their 3 word reviews would be, but let’s hear yours first!!
WE’RE ON OUR WAY, WE’RE ON OUR WAY,
TO THE SOUTH OF FRANCE WE’RE ON OUR WAY,
FREDDIE STEWARD AT THE BACK,
HARRY POTTR IN ATTACK,
PACK YOUR BAGS AS LEICESTER’S ON THEIR WAY!!!
Boom! What a win, with the usual unnecessarily nervy last 10.
Scrappy stuff but some young lads seriously stood up.
Lob over your 3 word reviews, pronto 👇
AAAAANND get your voice notes to therollingmaul
@outlook
.com (need more of these, please!)
📈 Top of the Prem.
👑 94 (!) league points
😇 Home semi final v Saints
Surely that all trumps a pretty average performance in the final game of the regular season?
Throw us your three words reviews 👇
OHHHH ASHY IS A TIGER,
HE WEARS A TIGERS HAT,
HE LIVES NEXT DOOR TO WIGGY,
IN A LEICESTER COUNCIL FLAT,
HE SCORES THEM ON HIS LEFT WING,
HE SCORES THEM ON HIS RIGHT,
AND WHEN WE PLAY THE FINAL,
HE’LL SCORE ALL FUCKING NIGHT!
One of the toughest, most dedicated and passionate blokes to ever pull on the shirt.
A club legend.
Go well in retirement Tommy, and I’m glad to read that we all get to show him and his family some love on Saturday.
Tom Youngs has confirmed his retirement from professional rugby.
The 35-year-old retires after making 215 appearances for Leicester Tigers, as well as gaining 28 Test caps for England and three for the British & Irish Lions.
Job done sums that one up pretty accurately.
Not pretty, a lot of wasted opportunities, but a desperately needed win nonetheless.
We love Guy, but not passing with a 4-on-1 overlap was mad.
3 word reviews below 👇
We’ve made our TV debut so I can only assume the requests for TV punditry will now come flooding in.
Phone hasn’t rang yet, but I’m sure it’s just a problem with the signal.
#faceforradio
So we can reveal the member of the Tigers’ Coaching Team that joined us this afternoon for a natter was the legend himself
@AledWalters
! Aled very kindly gave us his time & provided great insight into the work he does. Just finishing editing & the pod will be with you soon!
You know it’s a good result when our socials team moves away from the “Job done” tagline after a win!
The conditions meant it wasn’t pretty, but it was dominant, smart and comprehensive.
Let’s have your three word reviews below 👇
ICYMI…
The King of Leicester
@FreddieBurns
was once again making game-breaking impacts in a season-defining match last week, albeit in a slightly different manner than we’re used to.
Long live the king!
PS, download our last pod with Freddie on, it’s a beauty.
What a fucking farcical, bizarre, infuriating but ballsy win.
Scrum was a liability but the boys dug in when it mattered. Held out with TWELVE men.
Great to get a key win, but can’t hide some serious brain fades too.
3 word reviews please 👇
Table starting to look a lot healthier now for us 😍😍😍
Big 3 games ahead, big 3 home games too! Need us fans to step up now too to cheer the boys home.
They’re doing their bit on the pitch, let’s do ours from the stands!
Let’s use the Welford Road factor for us!
WE’RE ON OUR WAY
WE’RE ON OUR WAY
TO THE LAST 16 WE’RE ON OUR WAY
FREDDIE STEWARD AT THE BACK
HARRY POTTER IN ATTACK
PACK YOUR BAGS ‘COS LEICESTER’S ON OUR WAY!!!!!
Ultimate disclaimer:
The above could of course all be complete and utter horse shit. It’s my best attempt at wading through what we know and what’s reported, and has led to me being sat on the toilet typing this for far too long.
M