Humbled Tigers finish bottom of their pile

By ROGER PANTING

IN THE deadest of dead rubbers, Leicester showed how much the mighty have fallen as the twice winners of the European Cup crashed to another ignominious defeat to leave them rooted to the bottom of Pool 4.
The Tigers had chosen to rest most of their superstars and their replacements fell well short of what was required to match rejuvenated Scarlets in any facet of the game.
Tigers’ head coach, Geordan Murphy, said: “We’ve been on a tough run in the Premiership and we needed to steady the ship there so we had no option but to rest certain players.
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