Tuilagi won't fall for final wind-ups

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Tuilagi was sent off at Twickenham last season after a brawl with Lewis Moody during Samoa's defeat to England and he expects Wasps to try to get under his skin again as Leicester - the EDF Energy Cup winners and Guinness Premiership champions - go in search of an unprecedented trophy treble.

But Tuilagi said: "They might try and disturb my concentration and try to make me do stuff like that but I will be careful. I will be cool. I will just walk away and smile. I have learned from that incident not to get involved."

He added: "All I think about is to look for work, look for the ball and have no fear. I am very confident. I just play how the coaches tell me - to find space and run through people."

Ryan Lamb, Gloucester's prodigiously talented but comparatively feather-weight fly-half, is living testament to that.

Tuilagi bulldozed through the England Saxons fly-half and scored two tries in a devastating man of the match display as Leicester sealed the Premiership title.

It was a performance reminiscent of New Zealand legend Jonah Lomu, who Tuilagi idolised as a kid and is working to emulate as a player.

"I watched Lomu a lot. I have lots of video tapes of him. He was a great player, the way he moved, the way he ran. I watched him play against England in that match in the 1995 World Cup semi-final," he said.

"When we were kids we would play rugby after school until it was too dark to see the ball. Everyone wanted to be Lomu.

"I have always been a winger. Strength was not a problem for me but this season my body fat has gone down. I have more muscle and it's a big difference."