By razcal
January 3 2003

Well. You have either breezed through the quiz and do not need to read the answers or you gave up at the ambiguity of several questions or you have been too sozzled to worry. Nevermind. here are the answers.

1) Who kicked off the year in poor style? (Austin Healey was banned at the start of the ear for a kick on an opponent in the Sale game)

2) Who famously kicked out six minutes early? ( Stephen Jones in the HC semi final atNottingham)

3) Who kicked for goal and missed the corner flag? (Austin Healey against Calvisano in October)

4) In April Tigers officially became league champions again and the club labelled it "4 in a row" For how many Tigers who collected their medals last April was 4 in a row not true? ( Check this answer carefully. 10 Stimpson for whom it was 5 and then Chuter,Freddie, Ben Kay, Josh, Harry, Kafer, Goode,Deacon and Ollie who were not playing in all 4 years I do stand to be corrected if I have missed anyone else out)

5) Who was involved in a 3 in a row? ( read "row" as argument. Rob Andrew, Epi Taione and Olivier Azam in the "Racist"storm in a tea cup)

6) What happened in 2002 that might lead Tigers to be labelled the "Heinz Team"? (The unbeaten home run was ended at 57)

7) Which Tiger may be in trouble for making too few public announcements? (Dean Richards has been threatened with action by the ERC for not naming teams in advance)

8) Which Tiger gets into trouble for making too many public announcements? ( The Liverpool lip Austin Healey)

9) Who, having made more public announcements during the home run, will sadly make no more public announcements? (Tudor Thomas who retires from the PA)

10) What announcement did the club skip during the close season? (They told nobody they had thrown our much loved Lester mascot in a skip)

11) Which team were slammed as failures in the first half of the year and slammed their critics in the second half of the year? (England were criticised or slammed for failing to win the six nations grand slam yet again but did a southern hemisphere grand slam in the Autumn.)

12) What responsibilities did 2 South Africans have to separately shoulder in 2002? (Labuschagne was sent off for a late shoulder charge on JW contributing to his team losing by a record score to England and Pieter van Ziel was the spectator who attacked referee McHugh on the field of play during a tri nations match islocating his shoulder.)

13) How many Tigers featured in the premiership top ten of penalty conceders for 2001-2002? (0)

14) How many Tigers featured in the premiership top ten yellow card receivers? (0)

15) There were several rugby bans imposed in 2002 but who banned themselves? (Dinamo Buchersti banned themselves from European competition after conceding more points to Saracens in 2 games than England's cricket team often manage in 2 innings)

16) Who were happy to be banned for losing then later regretted being banned for losing once they had won? ( read it carefully) (Agen were banned from Europe for 2 seasons after deliberately throwing a Parker Pen game to Pontypridd so they could concentrate on the league. This worked so well they qualified for the money spinning Heineken Cup and were mortified to find the ban still applied)

17) Tiger fans got drunk in a lot of places in 2002 but which was the most celebrated low dive associated with Tigers in 2002? (Harry Ellis diving from 5 yards out to get under 2 cover tackles at Nottingham)

18) When Northampton beat Leicester on November 30th what was more than doubled? (The number of current players who could tell you what it is like to win a league game away at Welford road.Prior to this game the total was 11)

19) Who swore half blind that one Tiger supporter did not know the identity of his father? (Budge Pountney told Rich W he was a "One eyed b*****d"

20) Which crushing victory was toasted with a "rum" punch? (Tigers won 48-7 away to Saracens then saw Martin Johnson banned for a punch he was sin binned for)

21) In August Tigers won the Orange cup. What two things strike you as strange about the Orange Cup as it sits in our club house? (One) It is not a cup but a piece of broken glass. (Two) Leicester has not been engraved on it with the correct spelling)

22) On November the 2nd Tigers beat Wasps 9-6. What was strange about this score? ( The only tryless first team game at WR in 2002 Also accept first home game Tigers have failed to score a try in 2002 or lowest score at home in 2002)

23) Which current first team squad member has the most first team appearances? (Darren "Skins" Garforth.)

24) Which Tiger was airbrushed twice in 2002? (Martin Johnson. First he refused to have his head shaved for real for a "Smoothly does it" Tetleys advert then Vauxhall was mysteriously replaced with Bradstone on pictures of him holding the Heineken Cup aloft at Cardiff.)

25) Whose long good bye came back to haunt him? (Andy Goode denigrated his former colleagues prior to this season's league game between Saracens and Tigers including complaining about not being given enough kicking responsibility at Tigers. He then proceded to miss vital kicks in the game.)

26) How did the sport in England promote itself badly in 2002? (Widespread indignation followed the decision to deny Rotherham promotion to the premiership)

27) Which country received a widely advertised snub? (New Zealand were dropped as co-hosts of next years Rugby World Cup because of problems with perimeter advertising at their grounds.)

28) How many football grounds have Leicester Football Club played a first team fixture on in 2002? ( I may be accused of making this a trick question) (7 Watford, Reading, Bristol, Loftus Road, Notts Forest , Cardiff's Millenium Stadium.and Adams Park )

29) Who felt a situation had been so badly mishandled that the roof might as well have fallen in on them? (Stringer or Munster after NB's sleight of hand was not spotted by the match officials under Cardiff's closed roof)

30) Several sports use the term "In-off". How did Tigers manage an "Off-on-in" during 2002? ( Tim Stimpsons wonderful 58 metre penalty went "off" the Nottingham plastic cross bar, "on"to the post and "in"to the in goal area.)

31) For us it is usually a case of once a tiger always a tiger. But how many ex-tigers played against Tigers in a first team game in 2002. 1 Point for each. Note they must have got on the pitch to play against us not just joined another club. ( Horak, Ezulike, Gustard, Greenwood, O'Reilly, Grindall, Abbott, Zaltman, Goode, Miller )Note Christophers and Soden do not count as they did not play for Tiger's fist team

32) Which Tigers back row combination best describes Austin Healey? (Short, Balding and Moody)

33) Which Tiger is linked to beer by name but is not bitter? (Murphy)