{"id":406302,"date":"2026-01-11T13:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/406302\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T13:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:33:11","slug":"fin-smith-one-of-two-northampton-players-pulled-from-bordeaux-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/406302\/","title":{"rendered":"Fin Smith one of two Northampton players pulled from Bordeaux game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Northampton<\/a> Saints have been forced to withdraw two players just hours before their Investec Champions Cup<\/a> showdown with reigning champions Union Bordeaux-B\u00e9gles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Phil Dowson\u2019s team will have to make do without British & Irish Lion and England<\/a> star Fin Smith and\u00a0 winger James Ramm<\/a> for the replay of last year\u2019s final at Stade Jacques Chaban-Delmas. <\/p>\n

A club statement reads: \u201cFin Smith and James Ramm have both been withdrawn from Northampton Saints\u2019 side to face Union Bordeaux-B\u00e9gles in the Investec Champions Cup this afternoon through injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmith is replaced at fly-half by Anthony Belleau<\/a> (wearing No. 10), while Ramm\u2019s place on the bench will be taken by Toby Thame<\/a> (wearing No. 23).\u201d<\/p>\n

REVISED NORTHAMPTON SAINTS TEAM:
15 George Hendy<\/a>, 14 Edoardo Todaro<\/a>, 13 Tommy Freeman<\/a>, 12 Rory Hutchinson<\/a>, 11 Ollie Sleightholme<\/a>, 10 Anthony Belleau<\/a>, 9 Alex Mitchell<\/a>, 1 Danilo Fischetti<\/a>, 2 Craig Wright<\/a>, 3 Trevor Davison<\/a>, 4 Alex Coles<\/a>, 5 JJ Van Der Mescht, 6 Callum Chick<\/a> (c), 7 Tom Pearson<\/a>, 8 Henry Pollock<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Robbie Smith<\/a>, 17 Emmanuel Iyogun<\/a>, 18 Elliot Millar Mills, 19 Ed Prowse, 20 Chunya Munga<\/a>, 21 Sam Graham<\/a>, 22 Archie McParland<\/a>, 23 Toby Thame<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northampton Saints have been forced to withdraw two players just hours before their Investec Champions Cup showdown with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-406302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}