Saints looking good but easy win leaves much to be desired

NICK CAIN

Northampton are playing attacking rugby which combines skill, speed, flair, and precision, and their hammering of Bayonne on Friday night at Franklin’s Gardens – combined with a great fightback to beat Exeter away last weekend – has quite rightly pushed many of their players into the England spotlight.
Wing Tommy Freeman and full-back George Furbank are at the front of the queue, and fly-half Fin Smith and wing Ollie Sleightholme are also lighting it up alongside young flanker Tom Pearson, who scored a hat-trick of tries against a hapless Bayonne outfit.
However, good as Northamp...

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