Quins feel pain, Russell prevails & Tigers tear it up - Prem talking points
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The Prem returned with a bang as Leicester ran it from deep, Finn Russell goaded and glided his way to victory and Harlequins slipped deeper into the mire.
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Quins feel pain, Russell prevails & Tigers tear it up - Prem talking points By Mike Henson BBC Sport rugby union news reporter Published 1 hour ago 18 Comments Bonus points caught some flak at the end of the Six Nations. Had champions France drawn their high-scoring game against England in the final round, rather than winning it by one point, they would have finished top of the standings despite having won one fewer match than second-placed Ireland. However, the concept came good at the end of Leicester's win over Bristol on Sunday. With the clock in the red, Leicester 28-19 up and each team having scored three tries, the Bears were attacking hard deep inside the host's half. Bristol couldn't win the game, but a try would deliver them two bonus points and keep them within one of Leicester in the table and the race for a top-four finish. When replacement Tigers' hooker Finn Theobald-Thomas turned over the ball, it seemed Leicester would take the money and kick to touch. Their coach Geoff Parling certainly thought so. "Could you not hear me at the end? I wanted us to kick it off," he said later. Instead, despite the rest of the backline standing flat and fatigued and the left-hand touchline invitingly close, Izaia Perese flung a long pass the other way. Freddie Steward caught it, kicked a pinpoint bomb across to Billy Searle, who fed inside to Gabriel Hamer-Webb to streak in to secure Leicester's own four-try bonus. It was a sensational finish. Leicester dig deep to beat play-off rivals Bristol Published 20 hours ago And Tigers are a lot more safely entrenched in the top four because of it – four points clear of fifth. It also points to a shift in style for Leicester. There was plenty of their traditional hard edge in a tussle of a game, but also moments of 24-carat sparkle. They made more clean breaks than the free-wheeling Bristol, more offloads and, 20 minutes before Hamer-Webb's try, almost scored an even better one down the other wing, attacking from deep, with J...
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