Leicester Tigers may opt for home comforts

LEICESTER TIGERS’ board of directors will sit down at Welford Road today to discuss switching their Heineken Cup quarter-final across the city to the bigger Walker’s Stadium.

The signs are, however, that the Tigers, led by chief executive Peter Wheeler, will opt to stage the game at their fortress of a home ground, foregoing the greater revenue opportunity of filling Leicester City’s 28,000 seats and keeping Munster’s travelling contingent down to around 2,000 fans.

The maths boil down to this: of the 11,000 extra seats that would become available by switching grounds on April 13, almost 7,000 would go to Munster’s passionate following, and a Leicester source told the Irish Examiner: