Leicester Tigers: Confident Freddie Burns has nailed down No.10...

Leicester Tigers players and management have lavished praise upon fly-half Freddie Burns for the work he has put into his ever- improving game.

The 24-year-old kicked all of his seven attempts at goal in the 25-18 win over Exeter Chiefs at Welford Road last Saturday.

Those sort of statistics are a way off the 60 per cent goal-kicking figures he was hitting earlier on in the season.

With Owen Williams sidelined for the rest of the campaign, Tigers' hopes rest solely on Burns' shoulders and he has responded with aplomb.

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8 Jordan Crane said Burns had stepped up just when the side…

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