Phil Dowson vowed champions Northampton would learn from the “harshest of lessons” dished out by Leicester.
“We going to have to have a long hard look and take the lessons – sometimes the best lessons are the harshest ones,” he said.
Dowson said the performance was “humbling and unacceptable” and acknowledged that a playoff looked a long way off.
“We’ve given ourselves a mountain to climb. It’s not impossible but we are going to have to be a darn sight better than that.”
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