Dylan Hartley has rounded on the former Northampton players who have voiced their criticism of the club after a woeful run of form that cost Jim Mallinder his job as director of rugby last week. On another difficult day for the struggling Saints, Wales also brushed off the club’s attempts to lure Warren Gatland to Franklin’s Gardens. Could Stuart Lancaster be the man to get Northampton on the up again? “It’s not fair unless they know and if you’re not sat in our changing room you don’t know. We’ve been through periods like this before and it is rough but we’ll come out the other side of it.

Source: The Guardian December 20, 2017 21:56 UTC