Coach has transformed Leicester’s style by giving his players the confidence to ‘play every blade of grass’ and the acid test comes against Dan Carter’s Racing 92Over the years Leicester have not been a club to rush into revolution,evolving from within in a boot-room culture reminiscent of Liverpool FC in the 1970s and 1980s, but they have taken a markedly different turn this season under the influence of Aaron Mauger, or the former current Zealand centre who finished his playing career at Welford Road.
The Tigers had one of the bluntest attacks in the Premiership final season when only winless London Welsh scored fewer tries than the club that finished third in the table after a final day scramble. Under Mauger their attacking game has been transformed to the extent they are now prepared to run from everywhere,no longer happiest when they have an attacking five-metre scrum.
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Source: theguardian.com