a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TNxIiyVfAXI/AAAAAAAAEww/QZ88y-sI8c8/s1600/scott-higganbotham-leicester.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TNxIiyVfAXI/AAAAAAAAEww/QZ88y-sI8c8/s400/scott-higganbotham-leicester.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538381404223504754" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"On Tuesday night Australia’s second-stringers played Leicester Tigers at Welford Road as the English side hoped to grab another big scalp to add to their already impressive list. Australia came from behind though, taking 25-16 victory. /spanbr /br /Speedster Lachie Turner scored early in the game before Leicester’s Billy Tweletrees kicked them back into the game with five successful penalties. The tourists stuck at it though and thanks to the boot of Berrick Barners, and a late try from Scott Higginbotham, they managed to avoid a repeat of what the Tigers did to South Africa last year.br /br /"We are delighted with the win," said coach Robbie Deans. "This is the nearest our young side can get to a Test match. You can't replicate this on the training ground. Seven of our guys put on the jersey for the first time," he added.br /br /Richard Cockerill was naturally disappointed that his Leicester side couldn’t hang onto the lead they earned early in the second half.br /br /"It was a fierce contest, we gave them an early lead but we got right back in it. The momentum was with us, we were 15-13 up and we should have closed the game out and in the end the scoreline was too heavily in their favour," the former England hooker said.br /br /Loose forward Higginbotham scored a controversial late try that made the scoreline look more comfortable than it probably was for the Aussies. The Wallabies will face England at Twickenham this weekend though with added confidence within the squad.br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8DFb5tI9b6k?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8DFb5tI9b6k?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerspan style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"br //span/spana href="http://my.telegraph.co.uk/rugby/rugbydump/618/headbutts-forearms-cameos-and-sonny-bill-keep-rugby-fans-glued-to-their-tvs/" target="_blank"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 90px;" src="http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n291/greiffel/Advertising/telegraph.jpg" alt="" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"'Headbutts, forearms, cameos, and Sonny Bill keep rugby fans glued to their TVs'/span - span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"a href="http://my.telegraph.co.uk/rugby/rugbydump/618/headbutts-forearms-cameos-and-sonny-bill-keep-rugby-fans-glued-to-their-tvs/" target="_blank"span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"Rugbydump's guest blog on the Telegraph/span/abr //spanbr /Please check out RD's latest blog on the Telegraph website. It includes some thoughts about the passed weekend's goings on, as well as a few links to the best recent videos here on Rugbydump. a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://my.telegraph.co.uk/rugby/rugbydump/618/headbutts-forearms-cameos-and-sonny-bill-keep-rugby-fans-glued-to-their-tvs/" target="_blank"Read more here/aspan style="font-weight: bold;"br //span/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-467248998644332451?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=l0Cuf-fanjM:3ev0_CHRvdo:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/l0Cuf-fanjM" height="1" width="1"/ More...