By PAUL REES
This is the stage of the season when momentum counts. The Premiership campaign resumes next weekend with champions Leicester the form team a couple of months after their title defence looked to have stalled.
When they lost at home to East Midlands rivals Northampton at the end of January, it was their seventh defeat in 13 league matches and they had drawn at Bristol. They had dropped to eighth in the table and only the Bears had a worse points difference.
They had suffered heavy defeats at Sale and Newcastle in the rounds before Northampton and it looked as if the loss of hea...
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