"Once we've played fast, up through the guts with Nadolo flying at Farrell. "If we are going to go crazy, why don't we play Jack at nine and let Ben Youngs come on at half-time," Stimpson told BBC Radio Leicester. Stimpson, who also won two European Cups in his time at Mattioli Woods Welford Road before heading to Perpignan in 2003, also stated his preference at scrum-half where Steve Borthwick has the choice of experienced campaigners Ben Youngs and Richard Wigglesworth as well as the young talents of Jack van Poortvliet. I'd like to see him throw a shoulder at Nadolo. " Farrell is their talisman, he's got a bit of a reputation for standing up a little bit high and throwing his shoulder and looking to dominate.
"I am going to throw out a curve ball, if you pick Freddie in the back three, you've basically got an opportunity to play Nadolo at 12," he told BBC Radio Leicester. Tigers' solution was to bring Freddie Burns into proceedings at full-back, switch Freddie Steward to the wing and for Guy Porter to perform from where he'd started his first four games, at inside centre.īut ahead of the Twickenham Stadium final, five-time Premiership title winner Stimpson believes Tigers should go down another route. READ MORE: 'Hammering': How Jasper Wiese turned around his disciplinary fortunes.However, the England international's afternoon lasted only two minutes and is highly unlikely to feature this weekend.
The 20-year-old missed the quarter-final exit to Leinster and the league matches with Newcastle Falcons and Wasps before making a return for last weekend's play-off semi-final defeat of Northampton Saints. Leicester Tigers legend Tim Stimpson has suggested a unique alternative option for solving the inside centre issue heading into the Gallagher Premiership final with Saracens.ĭan Kelly has been Tigers' main at 12 all season starting there in 17 of the 24 regular-season games before a hamstring injury struck in the Heineken Champions Cup second-leg win over Clermont in mid-April.