Tigers working overtime to 'catch up' - Hudson

Leicester Tigers will person to activity overtime to make crushed connected established Premiership Women's Rugby clubs this season, according to caput coach Tom Hudson.

Tigers vanished bottommost of nan array successful their debut run successful nan top-flight past term.

As portion of a coaching shake-up astatine Tigers, Hudson was elevated to caput coach having worked connected Vicky Macqueen's backroom unit earlier she near her domiciled arsenic caput of women's rugby astatine nan extremity of past season.

He said his attraction pinch nan squad will beryllium connected "adapting" and "moving forward".

"We person to drawback up," Hudson told BBC Radio Leicester.

"We person everything we request to deed nan goals and execute what we request for this season."

For Hudson, nan astir important portion of Leicester's improvement will beryllium their committedness to difficult work.

"I walked into nan gym yesterday and it was a spot of disconnected clip betwixt nan girls moving successful nan gym and doing immoderate rugby, and they were sat successful a circle chatting, and I said, 'We don’t person nan clip present to chat successful a circle,'" he added.

"We person different organisations who are putting time sessions on, we person organisations who are doing 4 times a week - we can't do conscionable what they are doing.

"We can’t moreover even do 5% more, we person to find ourselves 15-20% amended successful each aspect. We haven’t sewage clip to beryllium down and do nothing, we person sewage to drawback up and build acold quicker."

Leicester will statesman their run against defending champions Gloucester-Hartpury connected Sunday, 6 October.

On their travel to Kingsholm past season, Tigers were thrashed 52-14.

"What did we study past twelvemonth erstwhile we played distant against nan champion squad successful nan title by a state mile, bordering connected 1 of nan champion teams successful nan world?" Hudson said.

"We turned up and sewage bullied by nan occasion. It was our first clip distant astatine nan champions and bullied is nan correct connection because erstwhile we sewage connected nan section we besides sewage bullied successful contact.

"We conscionable looked for illustration we were rabbits successful nan headlights, truthful we request to make judge we understand nan juncture amended this twelvemonth truthful we tin make nan on-field [performance] better."