The focus on last week’s Northampton Saints v Bath game, and its 71-48 scoreline, has been interesting given that we’ve had these high scoring results for the last two seasons at least.
However, this particular game has had a bigger impact because 18 tries were scored, and although I was overseas when the match was played, when I saw the half-time score I thought “wow”!
My starting point is that you have to applaud the intent to attack.
I think a higher scoring average than usual is great, but people will always ask whether it is a result of poor defence or great attack.
Attacking intent
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