Rugby union: talking points from the weekend’s Premiership action

Northampton reveal their vulnerability, turnover possession is back in fashion, and Andy Goode could have the last laughDai Young’s nerve in declining to select the four players released by their countries in midweek was the subject of much discussion before the game at Franklin’s Gardens on Friday night. In the event the Wasps director of rugby’s faith in his squad was more than justified, especially during a first half throughout which every one of his players out-performed his opposite number to a degree which left the home crowd genuinely nonplussed, and gives Saints’ director of rugby, Ji…