“You remember what people say,” said Jim Mallinder, Northampton’s director of rugby. The young winger looks tiny among Northampton’s gargantuan back division but is becoming one of the stars of the season. A pair of penalties by Rhys Priestland actually edged Bath in front just past the half-hour, and Northampton looked frustrated. Then he scored his second, Lawes pinching a line-out and Luther Burrell breaking through the midfield for Ribbans to crash through what was left of Bath’s fractured defence. London Irish, though, have been unable to build on their successful return to the Premiership, suffering a second consecutive defeat on the road.

Source: The Guardian September 15, 2017 21:04 UTC