Leicester fly-half Toby Flood benefiting from George Ford's youthful exuberance Ford, last year's International Rugby Board Junior Player of the Year, has been restricted to just three appearances off the bench, the latest in Leicester's emphatic 30-8 win on Saturday, in the first five weeks of the season, fuelling speculation that he may be forced to move clubs if he wants to play regular first team rugby. Flood's place might have been under threat after a couple of below-par displays in the bore draw at Saracens and the home defeat by Harlequins which was described by Leicester chairman Peter Tom as "unacceptable." Leicester responded with a superb forward effort which denied Exeter back-to-back wins at Welford Road and helped Flood orchestrate the victory with an assured display behind a dominant pack. You don't let it [criticism] affect you either way. I'm old enough now, I've got a rhino skin. "You take the praise and you take the criticism and your line and your cycle is always flat," Flood said. Ultimately you are flatlining. The highs and lows of winning and performing well are great but ultimately it's next week and the next job that matters. Leicester's win was achieved despite losing three members of their matchday squad - Scott Hamilton, George Chuter and Boris Stankovich - to injury or illness on the morning of the match. But Leicester's injury list is shortening. Centre Mathew Tait is due to make his first appearance after a year out with a groin injury in Monday night's A League match against Worcester at Welford Road. Two England internationals, lock Louis Deacon, who tore a hamstring last Christmas, and scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had shoulder surgery during the summer, are also pencilled in to make their comebacks in the same match. Despite the disruption caused by the late withdrawals Adam Thompstone, the former London Irish wing, scored a hat-trick of tries on his first start after he was promoted to replace Hamilton with a performance that failed to impress his irreverent new team-mates. I don't know how he gets away with it. I shouldn't say it but he looks like Adolf Hitler in a grow bag," Flood said.