Leicester Tigers part company with director of rugby Richard Cockerill

• Cockerill has been on coaching staff at Leicester since 2004• ‘Tigers have made me the person and the coach I am today’Richard Cockerill has left Leicester Tigers with immediate effect after the club announced the director of rugby has parted company with the Premiership club. The former Leicester and England hooker has been on the coaching staff at the club since 2004, before being appointed as the director of rugby in 2010.The head coach, Aaron Mauger, will take interim charge of team affairs, working alongside coaches Richard Blaze and Geordan Murphy, while Leicester conduct a review of t…