Gallagher Premiership Alex Mitchell: Saints 'are in a very good place at the moment'
Northampton have mirrored the England scrum-half's own rise and will travel with confidence to face Leinster in Dublin.
You could have been forgiven for thinking April Fools Day is happening twice this year after far-fetched rumours reached Fissler Confidential Towers this week that Maro Itoje was going to be appearing at the Olympics this season.