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Recap: Northampton vs Leicester LIVE | Gallagher Premiership

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Follow all the action on the RugbyPass live blog from the Gallagher Premiership match between Northampton Saints and Leicester Tigers at Franklin’s Gardens.

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A sell-out crowd is attending the 244th East Midlands derby, a fixture where Northampton have won five of their last six meetings with Tigers in all competitions.

Saints are also unbeaten in their last three league matches on home soil, but they have been dealt a huge blow in the run-up to kick-off  as Courtney Lawes, Owen Franks and Dan Biggar have all been ruled out after failing late fitness tests.

Api Ratuniyarawa comes into the second row in place of Lawes, with Alex Coles taking his spot amongst the replacements. Ehren Painter will start at tighthead prop instead of Franks, with Paul Hill coming onto the bench. And James Grayson will wear the No.10 jersey for Saints in a straight swap for the injured Biggar.

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Leicester, meanwhile, include all six of the club’s England World Cup squad in their starting XV. Jonny May makes his first appearance since the World Cup final, with international colleagues Dan Cole, Ellis Genge, Ben Youngs, George Ford and Manu Tuilagi also all named in Geordan Murphy’s team.

Jaco Taute plays in the Gallagher Premiership for the first time, starting at centre alongside Tuilagi, and there is also a recall for Jonah Holmes, Tom Youngs, Calum Green and Sione Kalamafoni after sitting out the European Challenge Cup win over Cardiff last weekend.

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Sam Lewis and Jordan Coghlan, who both started against the Blues, are included among the replacements this week but Hanro Liebenberg, Tommy Reffell, Will Spencer, Ifereimi Boladau, Jordan Taufua and Tatafu Polota-Nau are all ruled out.

Head coach Murphy said: “We were poor in our last Premiership outing at London Irish but it has been good for the whole squad to get two good results in Europe over the last two weeks. Now we have a tough challenge at Saints who have started the season really well.”

NORTHAMPTON: 15 George Furbank; 14 Tom Collins, 13 Matt Proctor, 12 Rory Hutchinson, 11 Taqele Naiyaravoro; 10 James Grayson, 9 Cobus Reinach; 1 Alex Waller (co-capt), 2 Mikey Haywood, 3 Ehren Painter, 4 Alex Moon, 5 Api Ratuniyarawa, 6 Tom Wood, 7 Lewis Ludlam, 8 Teimana Harrison (co-capt). Reps: 16 Michael van Vuuren, 17 Francois van Wyk, 18 Paul Hill, 19 Alex Coles, 20 Jamie Gibson, 21 James Mitchell, 22 Fraser Dingwall, 23 Ahsee Tuala.

LEICESTER: 15 George Worth; 14 Jonny May, 13 Manu Tuilagi, 12 Jaco Taute, 11 Jonah Holmes; 10 George Ford, 9 Ben Youngs; 1 Ellis Genge, 2 Tom Youngs (capt), 3 Dan Cole, 4 Tomas Lavanini, 5 Calum Green, 6 Harry Wells, 7 Guy Thompson, 8 Sione Kalamafoni. Reps: 16 Jake Kerr, 17 Facundo Gigena, 18 Nephi Leatigaga, 19 Sam Lewis, 20 Jordan Coghlan, 21 Ben White, 22 Noel Reid, 23 Andy Forsyth.

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Bull Shark 2 hours ago
Rassie Erasmus' Boks selection policy is becoming bizarre

To be fair, the only thing that drives engagement on this site is over the top critiques of Southern Hemisphere teams.


Or articles about people on podcasts criticizing southern hemisphere teams.


Articles regarding the Northern Hemisphere tend to be more positive than critical. I guess to also rile up kiwis and Saffers who seem to be the majority of followers in the comments section. There seems to be a whole department dedicated to Ireland’s world ranking news.


Despite being dialled into the Northern edition - I know sweet fokall about what’s going on in France.


And even less than fokall about what’s cutting in Japan - which has a fast growing, increasingly premium League competition emerging.


And let’s not talk about the pacific. Do they even play rugby Down there.


Oh and the Americas. I’ve read more articles about a young, stargazing Welshman’s foray into NFL than I have anything related to either the north and south continents of the Americas.


I will give credit that the women’s game is getting decent airtime. But for the rest and the above; it’s just pathetic coming from a World Rugby website.


Just consider the innovation emerging in Japan with the pedigree of coaches over there.


There’s so much good we could be reading.


Instead it’s unimaginative “critical for the sake of feigning controversial”. Which is lazy, because in order to pull that off all you need to be really good at is:


1. Being a doos;

2. Having an opinion.


No prior experience needed.


Which is not journalism. That’s like all or most of us in the comments section. People like Finn (who I believe is a RP contributor).


Anyway. Hopefully it will get better. The game is growing and the interest in the game is growing. Maybe it will attract more qualified journalists over time.

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