{"id":183702,"date":"2025-10-07T18:24:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/183702\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T18:24:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:24:34","slug":"geoff-parling-says-removing-4-leicester-players-was-pivotal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/183702\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Parling says removing 4 Leicester players was ‘pivotal’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leicester<\/a> head coach Geoff Parling<\/a> believed his side always had the quality to get back into the game after seeing them complete a remarkable turnaround to beat Harlequins<\/a> 29-19 at Mattioli Woods Welford Road.<\/p>\n

The Tigers looked down and out when they trailed 19-0 after 52 minutes before a yellow card for Quins hooker Jack Walker<\/a> proved the catalyst to ensure Parling\u2019s first home Gallagher PREM match did not end in failure.<\/p>\n

After Walker\u2019s departure, Leicester turned the game firmly on its head by running in four tries. Will Wand<\/a> scored two of them, with Jack van Poortvliet and Ollie Hassell-Collins<\/a> also crossing while Billy Searle<\/a> converted three and added a penalty.<\/p>\n

Will Porter scored Harlequins\u2019 only try. Jarrod Evans<\/a> converted it and kicked three penalties with Jamie Benson<\/a> also adding a penalty.<\/p>\n

Parling said: \u201cDespite the scoreline, I thought we produced a lot of good stuff in the first half but it looked like we were getting ratty with ourselves as things weren\u2019t coming off.<\/p>\n

Fixture<\/p>\n

Gallagher Premiership<\/p>\n

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Leicester <\/p>\n

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Harlequins <\/p>\n

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\u201cWe then conceded a breakaway try just before the interval and that knocked the wind out of our sails.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that I was really pleased with the fight we showed as we had our backs to the wall but I always thought we had the quality to get back in the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cChanging four players at one time early in the second half was a pivotal moment as I believe we needed fresh legs to get back in the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bench did make a big impact and once we scored the first try, the belief came back into our game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harlequins head coach Jason Gilmore was disappointed with his side\u2019s second-half effort as, for the second week running, a decent lead evaporated to leave them with just one bonus point from their opening two league fixtures.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWe have to be better in controlling territory and possession as we let ourselves down in that area today.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce that happens you get regularly pinged and it brings the referee into the game. It\u2019s disappointing as last season we conceded the least amount of penalties in the league.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe struggled against Bath\u2019s power game last week but I thought we were better in that area today.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, we should have been further ahead at half-time as we bombed a try in the left hand corner and then, in the second half, Jarrod (Evans) missed a penalty touch and we were back in our half with the crucial yellow card soon following.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicester head coach Geoff Parling believed his side always had the quality to get back into the game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-183702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}