Flood faces job-share at Tigers

Fifty-cap England fly-half Toby Flood has been warned that he may have to accept a job-share arrangement with rising star George Ford when Leicester’s Aviva Premiership campaign opens on Sunday.

Flood regained the England number 10 jersey during the summer Test series against South Africa but, as Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill reminded him, nothing is guaranteed at Welford Road.