BRENDAN GALLAGHER

You don’t always get what you deserve in sport, not least when it comes to the send-off you dream of, but Courtney Lawes, Alex Waller and Lewis Ludlam were afforded that moment by the rugby gods at Twickenham yesterday and will count themselves blessed
The trio are Northampton through and through even if Ludlam’s formative years included loan spells with Coventry, Moseley and Rotherham, and between them they have notched up well over 800 senior appearances with Waller atop of the pile with a remarkable 378.
Waller, right, at 34 is burning his boots and retiring, Lawes is ...