Leicester Tigers coach Richard Cockerill recalls Alesana Tuilagi and Martin Castrogiovanni to the team for Saturday's Heineken Cup Final against Leinster at Murrayfield.

JERRY FLANNERY and Ronan O’Gara will be cheering on their biggest rivals in the Heineken Cup final, claiming that a Leinster victory would put the seal on a season when Irish rugby ranked alongside the best in the world.

Sam Vesty has demanded his Leicester team-mates use their defence as an attacking weapon against London Irish in today's Guinness Premiership final.

Tom Croft and Delon Armitage could take England’s British and Irish Lions contingent into double figures ahead of departure day for South Africa.

MARTIN CORRY would love one last hurrah to help Leicester clinch a momentous rugby double in the space of just nine days.

Wasps will stage their Heineken Cup clash against Leinster in January at Twickenham.

Gloucester 22 Biarritz 10

There are few surprises in the Ireland starting line-up for Saturday’s one-off Test against New Zealand.

England 17 Barbarians 14

Ireland arrived in Wellington today buoyed by Munster and Leinster’s recent successes but minus their captain Brian O’Driscoll, scrum-half Eoin Reddan and full-back Geordan Murphy.

Wasps 23 Leicester 6

Harlequins forward Nick Easter will captain England in next Sunday’s clash against the Barbarians at Twickenham.

Ireland back three player Geordan Murphy is preparing for a colossal challenge as his Leicester Tigers face London Wasps in the Guinness Premiership final at Twickenham on Saturday.

BRITISH and Irish Lions chiefs are confident a potentially embarrassing clash of fixtures that could affect the start of the 2009 tour to South Africa will be resolved.

WASPS winger Paul Sackey has demanded extra tackling practice this week to prepare him for tomorrow’s Heineken Cup final clash with Leicester wrecking-ball Alesana Tuilagi.

LAWRENCE DALLAGLIO is confident Wasps have the character needed to destroy Leicester’s treble dream and has braced Twickenham for an epic Heineken Cup final.

TWELVE months ago this week, the whole of Munster was engulfed in a state of rugby hysteria never before witnessed in the province.

England will decide today whether Gloucester flanker Peter Buxton is fit to tour South Africa.

GEORDAN MURPHY has underlined Leicester’s degree of difficulty in chasing an unprecedented trophy treble, declaring: “It is like climbing Everest.”

Leicester 40 London Irish 8