‘Squad dealt with poor start well’published at 22:24 BST 3 April
22:24 BST 3 April
FT: Northampton 49-41 Castres
Northampton Saints director of rugby Phil Dowson, speaking to Premier Sports: “The maturity of this squad is we can start poorly and then get ourselves back into the game so I was very pleased how we recovered.
“We never thought we were on top of them, we never got away from them in the scoreline, never really managed to deal with the restarts. I never felt the yellow cards were an opportunity, and they played with 14 very well.
“Credit to Castres, we want to play fast and so do they so you get a very open game.
“There are huge elements of our game we want to get better, elements of our set piece have to be better. We will get to work on that on Monday.”