LIONS SELECT MONARCHS

LEICESTER have chosen to face Edinburgh in the Championship play-off semi-finals.

The league leaders had the choice of quarter-final winners and have selected the Monarchs, with the matches to be raced this Friday at Armadale and then back in the East Midlands on Saturday.

The other quarter-final is to be completed on Tuesday where Poole take a 60-30 lead to Plymouth, with the aggregate winners of that tie then to face Glasgow.

Leicester boss Stewart Dickson said: “Edinburgh did very well over the two meetings against Redcar and we’ve seen the form of Sam Masters.

“There’s not an easy pick, but I do think with the form Poole are on at the moment, Edinburgh might look to be the easier one.

“But come next Friday and Saturday, Edinburgh will be out to prove a point because we’ve picked them – that’s the problem sometimes when you finish top, but you’ve got to pick somebody!”