By JON NEWCOMBE
Chris Ashton will take some replacing but Josh Bassett has come to Leicester hoping to make a splash of his own.
Bassett and ex-London Irish star Ollie Hassell-Collins have been signed to bolster the Tigers’ stocks out wide now that Ashton, European and Premiership rugby’s record try scorer, has finally hung up his boots and Anthony Watson hasn’t had his contract renewed.
Ashton and fellow veteran Mike Brown, who is still on the books, showed that age is just a number in producing some highlight reel moments last season and 31-year-old Bassett – one of the best uncapped winge...