Tommy Bell makes his first appearance in a Leicester Tigers shirt in the Development XV away to former club Sale this evening.

Full-back Bell began his professional career at Sale before spells at Wasps and Jersey. He signed for Tigers last week and lines up in the Premiership ‘A’ League against Sale Jets at Heywood Road.
 
George Catchpole and George Tresidder return to the Tigers team, and there is a place in the back row for Georgian flanker Giorgi Tkhilaishvili who made his ‘A’ League debut in the defeat at Gloucester last week.
 
Samoan prop Aniseko Sio returns to the squad and there is a place among the replacements for Adam Thompstone who has been sidelined by injury since pre-season.
 
Leicester Tigers Development XV (v Sale Jets, Heywood Road, Monday 7.30pm)
15 Tommy Bell
14 David Williams 
13 George Catchpole
12 Charlie Thacker                            
11 Paolo Odogwu
10 John Hargreaves                                                                                                  
9 George Tresidder    
1 Tom Bristow
2 Harry Thacker (c)               
3 Rikki Stout
4 Charlie Beckett
5 Joe Maksymiw
6 Will Owen
7 Giorgi Tkhilaishvili
8 Stone Priestley-Nangle
 
Replacements:
16 Riccardo Brugnara
17 Aniseko Sio
18 Jake Farnworth   
19 Nick Murphy
20 Charlie Harvey
21 George Prince
22 Javiah Pohe
23 Adam Thompstone