Bootiful!

buzzing in training and we are bringing that to matchday, so long may it continue.

“It’s a matter of taking each game as it comes. When you start to look too far ahead, that’s when stumbling blocks appear, so our only focus at the moment is on Billingham this coming Saturday, and we know that will be tough.”

Twice a Twickenham winner with Yorkshire Under 20s in the county championship final, Bell made his senior county debut at the end of last season, playing as a substitute for Yorkshire against Eastern Counties at Cambridge.

He would love to get another shot in the White Rose shirt.

“It’s a matter of getting your name out there and showing yearon-year progress and, hopefully, I can develop into that side,” he said.

“Playing in the last game of last season will hopefully have helped and it would be a good thing to be selected again.”

So what’s been the highlight of the season so far?

“The win against Rossendale took us back to last year because it was a really good contest,” he answered of the 22-5 success (he scored the 17 points to add to Lewis Workman’s try).

“It was one of those matches which went past in the blink of an eye because it was so intense, the atmosphere was incredible and it was a really good performance from us.”

Interim boss Aaron Mauger will stake the first claim to Leicester’s vacant director of rugby role after Richard Cockerill’s sacking.

Leicester dismissed Cockerill and put head coach Mauger, who will take charge of Sunday’s Premiership clash at Wasps, in “interim charge” amid a full-scale review of their coaching set-up.

Chris Robshaw faces a nervous wait to discover the extent of his shoulder injury, with England ordering further examination of a problem suffered playing for Harlequins.

The 30-year-old has been unable to take part in England’s twoday training camp owing to the shoulder problem picked up in Harlequins’ 24-17 Aviva Premiership defeat at Worcester.