Northampton 53-6 Gloucester | Aviva Premiership match report

Northampton 53-6 GloucesterThe new Premiership season is meant to be too close to call but Northampton already have other ideas. The defending league champions kicked off the new campaign with a genuine swagger, a hat-trick of tries from George North contributing to a resounding over a Gloucester side whose expensive new signings endured a chastening welcome to English domestic rugby.There is a long way to go until next May, of course, but the physicality and purpose shown by Saints was far too much for the visitors. There was still half an hour to play when North cruised over for his third tr…