Leicester don't have many lower order assets to protect so maybe it was to help Leicester out and they were allowed to have Howarth in return. It will be interesting to see how they deal with injuries this season as last season Leicester had to take Payne to Poole and as he only rode the few measly meetings in the NL obviously was nowhere near ready to guest in the EL.
They should have gone for a kind of jobshare for the no. 7's !!!!!