Director of Rugby: Phil Dowson
Captain: Lewis Ludlam
Ground: Franklin’s Gardens
Capacity: 15,200
PREDICTED FINISH: 5TH
Northampton have tended to yo-yo in recent seasons, not between divisions but up one week and down the next.
It was a reflection not just of the change in style brought in by director of rugby Chris Boyd, who returned home to New Zealand in the summer but is still acting as consultant, but the youthful hue of a side which in the middle of the 2010s had been one of the gnarliest in the top flight is now becoming middle aged, no less adventurous but more discerning.
It was o...
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