Richard Wigglesworth’s first recreation in control of Leicester noticed the reigning champions get pleasure from a convincing 28-13 victory over Gloucester within the English Premiership on Saturday as they grew to become the inaugural winners of the Slater Cup.
The match was named in honour of Ed Slater, who performed for each golf equipment however was pressured to retire in pre-season after being recognized with motor neurone illness.
Former lock Slater, 34, was current at Welford Street to current the trophy.
Wigglesworth ended his taking part in profession aged 39 following final week’s Champions Cup win over Clermont after being thrust into the position of interim head coach when Steve Borthwick, along with assistant Kevin Sinfield, left Leicester to take cost of England.
England’s Anthony Watson scored two tries for Leicester, with Man Porter additionally crossing, as Freddie Burns kicked three penalties and two conversions.
Albert Tuisue and England flyer Jonny Might scored tries for Gloucester, with Scotland worldwide Adam Hastings including a penalty in a match that sparked into life after a colorless first half ended with Gloucester 8-6 forward.
“I’m studying as I’m going alongside and I intend to place all the pieces into it,” stated Wigglesworth, a former England scrum-half.
“We made some errors right this moment and have been scratchy at occasions however hopefully we are going to present extra cohesion within the weeks forward as it has been a delayed begin to our team-building this season with the England boys away.”
Defeat for the guests was made worse by the sight of Wales wing Louis Rees-Zammit going off early on with a leg harm — a fear for Warren Gatland forward of the New Zealander’s second stint as Wales boss, which begins with a Six Nations conflict at dwelling to Eire on February 4.
The Cherry and Whites’ plans have been disrupted additional by an harm to Argentina star Santiago Carreras.
“We had a recreation plan however dropping two of our strike runners did not assist and presumably, I ought to have addressed it extra at half-time as we bought sucked into nonetheless taking part in our recreation with a reserve 9 (scrum-half) on the wing,” stated Gloucester boss George Skivington.
Leicester’s win noticed them leapfrog Gloucester into fourth place within the desk.
In Saturday’s different English top-flight encounter, Exeter withstood a Bathtub fightback to win 20-15 at Sandy Park.
Exeter’s Dave Ewers and Henry Slade each scored tries because the hosts surged right into a 20-10 half-time lead.
Bathtub, nonetheless, dominated the second half however solely had alternative hooker Niall Annett’s 62nd-minute attempt to present for his or her efforts.
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