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1 week ago | 
bbc.com | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
Heyes had come off the bench - as he had done for England in all four previous games in the tournament - to make his try-scoring contribution in the 68-14 thumping of Wales that gave England hope of snatching the championship title on the final day. Before the Six Nations, he had gone two years and three months without earning a cap despite being called up to the national team in that time.
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1 week ago | 
bbc.com | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
Injuries have meant that Martin has played almost as often for England this season than he has for Tigers. The combative forward featured in five of their opening 11 Premiership games before the Six Nations, and also in two European Champions Cup group games in that time.
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2 weeks ago | 
bbc.com | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
Hill said giving up Leicestershire's captaincy has allowed him to refocus on his batting. "I picked up my cricket bats in September and I went around to my mum and dad's house and put them in the spare room," he said.
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3 weeks ago | 
bbc.com | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
In the time Pollard has played abroad he has helped South Africa win two World Cups. He was with Montpellier when the Springboks won the title in 2019 by beating England in the final, then was called up during the 2023 tournament - after first proving his fitness with Tigers - to help them retain their crown. But despite his success at international level, he has gone without a trophy with Tigers so far.
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4 weeks ago | 
bbc.com | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
While trying to defend himself and come to terms with what a lengthy ban could mean to his future in the game when he was just months into his latest two-year deal with Leicestershire, Wright says he was forced to think about getting a "Plan B up his sleeve". And so he started a podcast.
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1 month ago | 
bbc.com | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
What Simmons can recall, however, is the moment that ultimately ended his career. He tracked a Leinster pass that sailed over his head and as he shaped up to try stop his man, the fend-off from James Lowe went horribly wrong for the scrambling Tiger who described the incident as "a freak accident". "His finger went up into my eye and did a fair bit of damage," Simmons recalls. "Initially everything, the whole vision in my right eye, just went black. I didn't know if my eye was closed or open.
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1 month ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
Harry Simmons knew he risked the permanent loss of vision in one eye if he attempted to play for Leicester Tigers again. Still, the versatile back admits it can be difficult to see - even with a irreparably damaged right eye - how his career came to an abrupt end at age of 27. It was on medical advice in December that he retired because of an injury sustained 11 months earlier against Leinster in a European Champions Cup loss.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
bbc.com | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
The cycle of taking medication and injections to dull the effects of the back issue which required surgery earlier in the year left the winger to take the advice of his surgeon to hang up his boots. Watson, who twice toured with the British and Irish Lions, said he was "not overly upset" that he was told to end his career given the way he was.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
sports.yahoo.com | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
In the freezing early hours of 1 December, Anthony Watson woke up in agony. It was a pain that would not only limit him to an almost pedestrian role for Leicester Tigers against Sale Sharks later that day, but ultimately end his career. On Friday, and just weeks after he strode downcast off the pitch in that Premiership defeat, the 30-year-old England winger announced his retirement on medical grounds because of a back injury.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
bbc.com | Andrew Aloia |Adam Whitty
While putting in big hits and getting stuck in at set-pieces helped Cracknell cope that day, he is someone that tends to find calming comforts in more far flung places. With binoculars in hand, he has escaped to the Isle of Skye off the north west coast of Scotland to watch birds of prey. "I've gone up to Scotland for a couple of family holidays and we saw eagles up there on one of those and I thought they were really interesting and I wanted to see one in the wild," Cracknell said.
