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Nick Cain: Henry Pollock needs to wise up – old pros will be keen to take him out

Henry Pollock’s upward trajectory has been so stellar that there was always going to be a queue of gnarled old pros looking to take the Northampton openside tyro down a peg...or five.
Step forward Jefferson Poirot, the 36-cap former France loosehead and Bordeaux-Begles skipper, who made a beeline for Pollock immediately the final whistle signalled his club were European champions for the first time.
As young Henry interceded in a verbal joust between Saints captain Fraser Dingwall and opposition fly-half Matthieu Jalibert, rather than favour the methodic calm of his detective namesake, Hercu...

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