"Patrick William Howard", usually known as "Pat Howard" or "Paddy Howard" is an ex-head coach at Leicester Tigers and a former Australian rugby union international who played Centre (rugby union)/centre or Fly-half (rugby union)/fly-half. He was educated at University of Queensland/Queensland University.

He was born in Sydney. His father Jake Howard played prop for Australia national rugby union team/Australia and his grandfather Cyril Towers also played centre for the Australia national rugby union team/Wallabies.

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I don't want to get carried away on this subject because Tom is a work in progress, but if the circumstances were right he could play Test rugby today.

It has been a gradual build-up for Julian, and all part of integrating him in. He played 20 minutes, then 40 minutes and now a full game.

They're the safe version of the coral snake. The saying is when red meets yellow, you're a dead fellow. When red meets black, you're OK, Jack.

We've got a big game on our hands.

We were tempted to start with Lewis on the bench, particularly given the amount of back rowers at the club who are playing very, very well.

A late change like this is not ideal.

If we play like we did against the Dragons, then we will lose.

We will take this tournament very seriously.

But this is a big game and I expect big-game players to turn up. I'm sure he'll fatigue during the game at some stage, and we'll have to deal with that, but when he's on the field I know he'll give 150 per cent.