SAINTS HANDED HARTLEY BOOST
SKIPPER Dylan Hartley is back in the Northampton team today in their first Premiership game since coach Jim Mallinder was sacked last week Despite the Saints having won just one of their past 11 matches in all competitions, interim head coach Alan Dickens believes there will be a change in fortune beginning against Premiership leaders Exeter at home ‘I am absolutely positive that if we get a win we’ll be back and we’ll be where we need to be,’ said Dickens ‘I’ll do the job with enthusiasm and try to get that to brush off on the rest of the people around here It’s an opportunity and we need to put things right — that’s my job I’m going to give it my best shot ’ Hartley has hit out at former