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Leicester boss Wigglesworth signs ex-Wasp as his own replacement

Emmanuel Meafou charges down a Wasps' box kick from Sam Wolstenholme /PA

Leicester Tigers boss Richard Wigglesworth has confirmed the signing of Sam Wolstenholme on a short-term contract.

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Scrumhalf Wolstenholme will take interim Leicester Tigers head coach Richard Wigglesworth’s place in the squad after the veteran retired as a player last month after it was revealed that he would be taking over from Steve Borthwick as head coach.

Wolstenholme previously played for Wasps where he made 30 appearances. Prior to joining Wasps for the 2019/20 season, he played for Yorkshire Carnegie. Wolstenholme is a former student of Oakham School and Loughborough University, and he also spent time on loan with Hull Ionians while playing for Carnegie.

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Wigglesworth said: “Sam is an exciting addition to our group and we’re confident he will add depth to our scrum-half ranks as well as competition for places, which is a really positive thing.”

“He knows the area and the importance of Tigers to it, after attending school and university locally, and is a young man with a lot of potential and growth in his game.

“Sam also has experience in the Premiership and Europe, which is of great value and we’re looking forward to seeing him commence with the squad.”

Wolstenholme joins Leicester Tigers “effective immediately” the club have said.

Tigers have released four players in the last 15 days. Tom Cowan-Dickie, Gabriel Oghre, Tom Horton and Lachlan Shelley have all departed Welford Road.

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JW 17 minutes ago
'Let's not sugarcoat it': Former All Black's urgent call to protect eligibility rules

Yep, no one knows what will happen. Thing is I think (this is me arguing a point here not a random debate with this one) they're better off trialing it now in a controlled environment than waiting to open it up in a knee jerk style reaction to a crumbling organtization and team. They can always stop it again.


The principle idea is that why would players leave just because the door is ajar?


BBBR decides to go but is not good enough to retain the jersey after doing it. NZ no longer need to do what I suggest by paying him to get back upto speed. That is solely a concept of a body that needs to do what I call pick and stick wth players. NZR can't hold onto everyone so they have to choose their BBBRs and if that player comes back from a sabbatical under par it's a priority to get him upto speed as fast as possible because half of his competition has been let go overseas because they can't hold onto them all. Changing eligibility removes that dilemma, if a BBBR isn't playing well you can be assured that someone else is (well the idea is that you can be more assured than if you only selected from domestic players).


So if someone decides they want to go overseas, they better do it with an org than is going to help improve them, otherwise theyre still basically as ineligible as if they would have been scorning a NZ Super side that would have given them the best chance to be an All Black.

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