Furbank, who has won 14 England caps, has been at the heart of a developing dynasty at Saints. <\/p>\n
Driven by a core of young, homegrown talent, Northampton are preparing for a third major final in three seasons and are looking to take back the Prem title they won in 2024.<\/p>\n
For Furbank, who joined the academy in 2015 and made his full debut two years later, his time at the Gardens has been memorable.<\/p>\n
“It’s a special group,” he said.<\/p>\n
“A lot of us will call each other best mates, and we spend probably too much time together, to be honest, off the pitch, but I think that is what’s so special about this group.<\/p>\n
“We do spend a ridiculous amount of time together, and so when it comes on to the pitch, it does feel natural.<\/p>\n
“There’s something about playing with a group of mates that makes you want to go that little bit further and run that little bit more and hit that little bit harder.<\/p>\n
“I’ve loved my time here genuinely from minute one to my last game on Saturday.<\/p>\n
“It’s been a pleasure coming to work, it never feels like work, because you come into a place where you are basically just hanging out with your mates, having a laugh, and doing something that you love for a living.<\/p>\n
“So, yes, it’s been a pretty cool 10 years.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Furbank, who has won 14 England caps, has been at the heart of a developing dynasty at Saints.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646442","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=646442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}