Leicester's Mathew Tait has big-time ambition to take down Toulouse for place in Heineken Cup quarter-final

A Heineken Cup shoot-out against four-time European Cup-winners, Toulouse, is just the sort of occasion that kept Leicester full-back Mathew Tait motivated through the dark hours as he endured month after month of rehabilitation from a long-running groin injury, his mind focused only on getting fit to experience the sort of encounter Welford Road will stage tomorrow.