Straight from kick off the teams waded into each other after an early line out when the White was binned after a melee between Regan, Hooper, Johnson, Corry & himself. It was going to be a physical game and only the strong would survive. Young Captain Hooper was up against the grizzled campaigner Martin Johnson but he stood his ground and gave as good as he got.

It was going to be a niggly game.

In a closely fought first half Leeds edged it 15-9 thanks to the boot of Ross but there were also a couple of glimpses from the backs for tries. Early on Leeds broke out of defence, passed the ball wide to Bell who beat his man, he slipped the ball out to Rees with a wonderful reverse pass and put Rees away for what looked a certain try. But 60m is a long way to go and he was chased and caught by Geordan Murphy who is no slow-coach!

Later in the first half Leeds looked almost certain to score again when Snyman battered through the Tigers defence to set Phil Christophers away with what looked a certain try, but again the Tigers defence hauled him in yards from the try line. It remained 15-9 at half time.

Leicester started the second half on fire with Goode adding a penalty and Lloyd scoring a well worked try from the Tigers backs. Leicester moved into a 19-15 lead and looked to impose themselves on the Tykes. But what happened next will go down in Tykes fans folklore when Biggs scored a superb individual try, with the ball kicked deep Snyman dropped back and set off with the ball from just outside his own 22. He managed to burst through the first line of the Tigers defence and off loaded to little Tom Biggs, who jinked and swerved his way through the first line of defence and suddenly found himself haring towards the Tigers try line, with the Leicester players on his trail he made it over the line - beating last man in defence Martin Corry (!) to bring the score to 20-19.

With Ross missing the extras Leeds moved into a slender one-point lead. Ross added his 6th penalty shortly afterwards to make the score 22-19 but it wasnt long before Goode banged over another penalty to close the gap to a single point again.  23-22 Leeds.

With only minutes of normal time remaining Leicester were awarded another penalty, but Goode this time pushed it wide. With the closing seconds remaining Leeds managed to hold out for a 1 point win but crucialy bagged 4 points in the League.

Leeds managed to keep up an usual record of never losing to Leicester at Headingley in the ZP. Of the previous 3 occasions they always seem to play some of their better rugby; They are more committed and more aggressive against the Tigers.

This provides a desparately needed lifeline, and with this kind of commitment, there's no reason why the Tykes shouldn't make things safe by the end of the season. It will, however, take exactly this level of committment to pull it off.

Don't forget!

WEDNESDAY 6th APRIL, 8.00pm

AN EVENING WITH PHIL DAVIES

Your chance to talk to the man himself, and find out what the future plans are, and how this performance can be continued into the rest of the season.

Tickets are available online at www.ltsa.co.uk