Lawes will leave Northampton Saints at the end of the season but is doing his best to help them secure more silverware before he departs
be taking him to a Champions Cup and Premiership double? The great warrior flanker will be leaving the Saints at the end of the season, his 17th in the green, black and gold, and the way he scrapped and sashayed round the pitch in Sunday’s 24-14, last-16 victory over Munster showed he has the will and the power to make itby five points with four rounds left, and thrilling all onlookers with the way their backs coached by Sam Vesty move the ball – a prime example was the wonder try from their...
But as Smith was quick to admit afterwards, the demands of this fast-paced contest in a howling wind were more to do with “dogging it out” and defending and the repeat skills of tackles and breakdown battle – and that is where the 35-year-old Lawes has been excelling since his Saints debut back in 2007.As a spectator you need to watch Lawes intently or risk missing some of his best contributions, such is his cuteness and feel for the game. Just imagine what it’s like as an opponent against him.
He won’t have enjoyed the line-out steal perpetrated on him by the 34-year-old Peter O’Mahony, as these two old masters tussled to see who would be painted out of Northampton have won the domestic league once, in 2014, and the Champions Cup once – in 2000, before even the long-serving Lawes came along.
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