IT SAYS everything about the pulling power of Leicester Tigers that there were only 66 empty seats for this Guinness Premiership clash on a freezing afternoon full of autumn internationals. The missing few were probably at Twickenham watching the Leicester contingent in white anyway. The Welford Road faithful were rewarded with three splendid tries that saw their team overtake Harlequins to claim third spot in the league table.
Leicester got off to a dream start when Quins made a complete hash of Derick Hougaard's long kick-off, allowing Tigers to regather the ball beneath the visitors' posts. Unable to ground the ball there, the Leicester forwards hammered the line wide out on the right before Julien Dupuy eventually spun the ball the other way and a