Saturday, April 4, 2015

Clermont Auvergne hand a clinical hammering to Northampton

12:52 PM

• Clermont Auvergne 37-5 Northampton

Read Dan Lucas’s minute-by-minute report

Forget Northampton, this felt like a defeat for all of English rugby. England’s champion club, 10 points clear at the head of a Premiership otherwise vibrant in its competitiveness, were subjected to a hammering, pure and simple, so utterly without remorse or ray of sunlight that it is hard not to see it as a slap in the face to anyone who thought English rugby might be on the up.


It felt like that in the heat of the moment. A more sobering, boring assessment might be to remind ourselves of this very same Clermont Auvergne team’s hammering at the hands of Saracens in last season’s quarter-final – and Clermont are nothing if not wild in their inconsistency.


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