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...