NORTHAMPTON can become the first team through to this season’s Heineken Cup quarter-finals tonight — but Saints boss Jim Mallinder is taking nothing for granted.

Newcastle Falcons boss John Fletcher claims he would have been “a stark raving lunatic” to leave out a fully-fit Jonny Wilkinson for Sunday’s Guinness Premiership clash against title contenders Bristol.

Wasps’ hopes of retaining their Zurich Premiership title have been hit by a serious injury to their ex-New Zealand prop Craig Dowd.