Lamb leaves Quins on the rack in Saints surge

NORTHAMPTON produced a disciplined and ruthless performance to defeat Aviva Premiership leaders Harlequins and record their seventh win in their last eight outings.

Saints thoroughly deserved their victory, with fly-half Ryan Lamb kicking 13 points and Ben Foden and Roger Wilson scoring tries, while Harlequins were left rueing the absence of first choice fly-half Nick Evans and the number eight Nick Easter being sin-binned in the first half.

Saints piled up a decisive 11-point lead with Easter in the sin bin, and Evans’s replacement Rory Clegg missed two kickable penalties early in the second half just as Quins looked like mounting a comeback.