Northampton’s Jim Mallinder says no to England after beating Scarlets

• Northampton 15-11 Scarlets• Tom Wood admits to sadness over Stuart Lancaster leaving EnglandA win was non-negotiable for Northampton, and the force of will such situations tend to elicit won out. The Saints reacquainted themselves with the feeling of topping a table, albeit one game in with the other in the pool postponed.It looked early-on as if they might run away with this one but teams on a bad run, as Saints are in the Premiership, often struggle to press home an advantage. In the end, they had to call on that force of will against a weakened Scarlets team still fast and clever enough t…

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