Tigers ready to roar in ‘pool of death’

LEICESTER have been involved in so many Heineken Cup “pools of death”, it is a wonder the Tigers are not extinct.

For a third successive European campaign, Leicester have drawn the shortest of short straws, finding themselves bracketed with European champions Munster, a resurgent Cardiff Blues and enigmatic French challengers Bourgoin.

Tigers head coach Pat Howard though, just shrugs his shoulders as he plots Leicester’s latest bid to recapture a trophy they last won in 2002.