2023-24 Pre-Season Fixtures

Haha indeed Smile

Also, any idea where Robbie, Ant, Baker, Birdy and Vinny were...quite a few of lasts seasons' stalwarts absent? Maybe just having extended summer holidays!

Esher’s match saw 5 pens against both sides for high tackles and 1 pen for folding into a tackle. No real impact on the game.

tigerburnie wrote:

Leicester Lions travel to Butts Park on the 19th for a pre season match against Championship side Coventry with a 3 pm kick off, this also coincides with the Coventry Beer festival, beer and rugby, who'd have thought of that? Big smile

Terrible thought for this non-alky - but I'll turn up all the same.

Our City,
Our Club

tigerburnie wrote:

I was wondering who ate all the pies...................... Wink

Don't like those either...

I sometimes wonder if life's worth living 😉

Our City,
Our Club

Blackheath.beat Barnes 31-12 (I think) but unfortunately the application of the new tackle law was pretty poor which meant the game was very fragmented but more minutes in the tank for both teams

So many Christians not enough Lions

Clwb Rygbi Llandudno 5 Sedge 28.

All the best

ST

Give him one with handles on

Try highlights from the Cov v Lions game

TryLights | Coventry 33-21 Leicester Lions | 23/24 Pre Season - YouTube

LLions looking very impressive Nat 1 to be the best league again this year.

Run with it

I don't think the Lions have a 5 year plan for promotion just yet, I think it took three years into the plan to win the last promotion, it would be nice to win our home games at least, after that who knows, last season they lost just one game and ironically that was at home.

This Thursday we have an evening pre season game against near neighbours Hinckley, that will be the final warm up game before the visit of Sale FC, a nice easy start then................................not.

Edited by tigerburnie - 22 Aug 2023 at 13:14

workerbee wrote:

I Think that Lions will seriously need to look at the regulations for the Championship to see how they will be able to manage their facilities and ground, and the Fines which many championship clubs have to pay if they cannot manage to pass the Audits by PwC, A number of clubs are already paying significant amounts of money to the RFU for failing.

I would also be interested how they are going to handle large crowds(average crowds in Championship are around 1000) together with parking arrangements. All this will need to be part of any plan.

I think you are getting way ahead here, my tongue in cheek comments are not to be taken too seriously, I am sure the Lions know what is coming and they know it ain't going to be easy in Nat 1 let alone getting anywhere close to promotion. The thing is as of yet we don't actually know what we are playing for, the RFU drop hints of a total revamp that will or may include Nat 1 going to two leagues in 24/25 season, so the Lions could be in North or South Nat 1 if they manage to avoid being relegated.