COV! WE SHOWED ‘EM!

Coventry Rugby dealt a blow for the Championship, seizing every chance to capitalise on Leicester’s slip-ups in the first proper match-up between these rivals in nearly 30 years. A blinding burst of four tries in just eight first-half minutes gave Cov all the momentum they needed to keep the Tigers at bay, despite a spirited second-half response from the home side. And oh, did the Cov fans let Leicester know about it! The noise at the end? You’d have thought we’d won the league! It was a big moment, alright—even if the win, five tries to three, was over a raw Tigers squad. After a bit of a shaky, mistake-laden start, Leicester clawed back some respect with three tries of their own. But the mighty Senitiki Nayalo, who was nothing short of unstoppable all match, stormed in with Cov’s fifth to seal it.