Saracens boss Mark McCall questioned the work-rate of some of his players after their fitful display at Northampton, admitting it was not something he often said about a famed Saracens characteristic which was to the fore in blowing Quins away last week.
“By some people not the whole team,” he stressed. “And that’s never a good thing to have to say. We pride ourselves on being the opposite of that. If you want to be the team you want to be then you’ve got to have everybody right at it from an effort point of view, and we got that a bit wrong tonight.
“We showed some grit to come back into th...