VIDEO – Parling sets short-term Premiership goals in RWC year

Geoff Parling plays his first Aviva Premiership match of the season tomorrow and is intent on continuing the eye-catching return to form he produced opposite Brodie Retallick and Sam Whitelock in New Zealand this summer.

After making only two domestic starts for Leicester Tigers since the previous September, the British and Irish Lion was arguably England’s best player on the tour Down Under.

The 30 year-old steered the lineout to a 100 per cent success rate in the first Test and then racked up a mammoth 21 tackles and two turnovers in the second as England suffered two narrow defeats to t…

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