Bath and George Ford’s boot too much for Northampton’s damp comeback

• Northampton 14-18 Bath• England fly-half Ford kicks all Bath’s points before two late Saints triesThings are looking up for English rugby, but if Friday night’s pyrotechnics at Gloucester maintained the positive vibes, here was a damp reversion to less inspiring times. Not that Todd Blackadder, he of All Black pedigree, will mind. The Kiwi charged with turning round Bath’s fortunes has successfully opened his campaign without any sign – or even the slightest hint – of the All Black way, nor of the Fijian that we might have expected his incoming assistant Tabai Matson to introduce.All of that…