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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
And you know, you've interviewed all these lads, Jim, when you did your doc for Rugby Pass and all that stuff when they were younger.
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
They love...
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
The likes of Freddie Stewart, Jack Van Portfleet, Joe Hayes, all these lads, George Martin, Olly Chesham, they love playing Northampton because that's the proper rivalry, right?
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
The East-Mids rivalry of those two clubs.
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
And with the success that Northampton have had recently, obviously won the Prem two years ago, got to the Champions Cup final last year.
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
Everyone's talking about them being the hotshot team, how they play.
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
Yeah.
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
And Leicester went to town on him a bit physically.
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
And George Martin was the kind of talisman for that, wasn't he?
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
He's like a dad.
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
He's like someone's dad playing rugby, just battering boys and holding them and smashing into them.
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
He's a good character as well.
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
He's quite a simple guy, isn't he?
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
He's just like running to that brick wall, I'll fucking do it.
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
Saracens have got a good signing with him.
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
Obviously, he's had mega injury issues, but you talk about the momentum towards the end of the season and getting George Martin back, I think, is a massive thing for Leicester going into the last sort of three weeks of the Prem and then potentially the knockouts, which I think with that victory over Northampton should have got them into the knockouts.
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
And then there's a big chance now they could finish in the top two, just with how Bath have fallen off a little bit over the last couple of weeks.
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
I know they've got Newcastle at home this week.
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
But, you know, Saints... Like, Saints are a wicked attacking team.
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#38 RFU Back Borthwick, URC Play-Off Race Heats up, Leicester Smash Saints
Their type five's poor, though.