{"id":515464,"date":"2026-04-06T07:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515464\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:46:15","slug":"champions-cup-recap-northampton-saints-49-41-castres-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515464\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions Cup recap: Northampton Saints 49-41 Castres as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Squad dealt with poor start well&#8217;published at 22:24 BST 3 April<\/p>\n<p>22:24 BST 3 April<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">FT: Northampton 49-41 Castres<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northampton Saints director of rugby Phil Dowson, speaking to Premier Sports: &#8220;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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Credit to Castres, we want to play fast and so do they so you get a very open game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Squad dealt with poor start well&#8217;published at 22:24 BST 3 April 22:24 BST 3 April FT: Northampton 49-41&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-515464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}