Northampton Saints Season Preview
Coach: Phil Dowson
Captain: George Furbank
Last season’s title winning success at Northampton was no fluke.
It was the product of work started by Chris Boyd six years before and, despite the departures of a number of players who were central to the Saints’ rise, including Courtney Lawes and Lewis Ludlam, they will be contenders again.
An issue for Phil Dowson and his coaching team is not so much how to replace the likes of Lawes, one of the most influential players in the Premiership era, but how to cope with the growing number of inter national players o...