Northampton Saints put a disappointing opening day defeat to bed with a deserved win over Exeter Chiefs at Franklin's Gardens.
Reigning champions Northampton Saints put their opening-day defeat behind them with a deserved win over Exeter Chiefs at Franklin's Gardens.
Saints' first win of the campaign saw them leapfrog the visitors to seventh in the table, while Exeter dropped one spot to ninth. Chiefs fly-half Harvey Skinner then found a yard to dart through the Saints defence and found Woodburn, who had the simplest of tasks to score under the posts. The visitors were then dealt a hammer blow when Munga charged down scrum-half Sam Maunder's attempted box kick to crash over the whitewash on his 50th Premiership appearance.
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