Quins finished ahead of Leicester that season and the visitors find themselves in a similar situation again this time around, after week one of the Zurich Premiership saw both teams lose their opening fixture.

"Every week in the league now you are coming up against top class players in every position and this Saturday is no different," said Quins England lock Alex Codling, who looks as if he may have to miss out on a match up with his England colleague in Argentina in the summer Ben Kay.

"I've had a problem with my hamstring, which is not too serious, but is giving me trouble. I wanted to give the best I could for the team last week and I lasted almost 60 minutes, so I hope I can go for a bit longer next time out."

Codling who joined the Stoop outfit from Neath in the summer of 2000 feels that Quins are not too far off the pace at the moment and that on another day they could have beaten Championship contenders Gloucester last weekend.

"We've just got to cut out the mistakes in our game, but overall it was frustrating because we got into a position with ten minutes left to win the game, and from then on really and at home, we should have looked to win from there."

"This week it is obviously a challenge. Leicester are a tremendous side at home, but we tend to raise our game against better opposition and we've got every chance - we have just got to believe in ourselves, train hard and improve on what we did last week and take that with us into the game."

"I was pleased but I was more disappointed for the team. We worked hard, to get one point is better than nothing, but we obviously wanted four but to find ourselves in that sort of position with ten minutes left we would have hoped to have won the game then."

"It was just little things why we failed to win it. The margins are so small between success and failure but unfortunately we couldn't get into a kicking position, so we have found ourselves with one point instead of four."

"We can take a number of positives from the game. They are supposed to be one of the top sides in the country and one of the favourites to win the league, so we can take positives from that."

"But looking at our own standards, we will be disappointed with our own performance and be looking to cut out the errors in future games and look to see where we can take the team on further. The spirit is tremendous and I'm sure we will move on from this."

Quins are long overdue a league win against the Tigers - played ten lost ten reads their sorry looking record since their last league win over them five years ago, but hope springs eternal and Saturday is no different.

"With the result at Leeds it just shows that it is a tough league and it's getting tougher each year and each game is a tough game regardless of who you play, and we've got to make sure we prepare ourselves the best we can regardless of who the opposition is and this week is no different."

"This week is a great challenge and if we want to do well in the league this year we have got to improve our performance."