Northampton enjoy easy warm-up for Leicester by thrashing Treviso

• Northampton 67-0 Treviso• Saints now face tough Tigers’ test in PremiershipNorthampton go into Saturday’s east Midlands derby against Leicester on the back of two romps against Treviso while their rivals will be coming off far more taxing encounters against Toulon. The one will be fresh and confident, the other battle-hardened, and well before the end of this one-sided victory over the hapless Italian club the Saints’ director of rugby, Jim Mallinder, was thinking about the Tigers.It is a fixture that has certainly not brought out the best in Northampton in recent years but last May, in the …