SAM LEWIS
LEICESTER LOCK
Sam Lewis faced the daunting task of integrating himself into Leicester’s fearsome pack last summer but having his old academy coach Brett Deacon there to guide him through made things a lot easier.
Lewis joined the Tigers academy full-time as the incumbent captain of Denstone College first team, but senior rugby is another beast and he needed reassurance that he was good enough to cut it among seasoned professionals.
As fate would have it, mentor Deacon had been promoted from the academy coaching setup to the first team, which gave Lewis, below, the confidenc...