Chris Boyd sees signs in Saints that promise a new song for Europe

Northampton, like Leicester, swap domestic travails for European competition on Sunday, though Exeter will be dauntingly familiar opponents Chris Boyd described last weekend’s east Midlands derby at Welford Road as the dance of the desperate, one of the English game’s traditional big fixtures, featuring two clubs more used to challenging for the title than lurking in the Premiership’s basement reduced to little relevance beyond local bragging rights.Northampton and Leicester on Sunday swap their league labours for Europe. The Saints face the last waltz at Exeter in the Champions Cup quarter-fi…