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Dom Barrow leaves Northampton with immediate effect

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Dom Barrow is on the hunt for a new club after leaving Northampton Saints with immediate effect.

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The former Leicester Tigers and Newcastle Falcons lock has left Franklin’s Gardens by “mutual consent”.

Barrow spent three seasons with Leicester, leaving the club in March last year for La Rochelle as a medical joker.

He joined the Saints for the 2018/19 season but had an injury disrupted spell which meant the 25-year-old failed to make an impact.

In a brief statement Northampton said: “Northampton Saints today confirms that Dom Barrow has left the Club by mutual consent.

“Following some periods of unavailability through injury and the emergence of some home grown locks at the Club, Dom has had limited opportunities at Saints. He has a strong appetite and desire to play the game at the highest level and everyone at Northampton Saints wishes him well in his future career.”

Barrow cut his teeth with Yorkshire Carnegie before being picked up by the Falcons.

While at Yorkshire he was part of the England Under 20 side which won the 2013 Junior World Championship, a team which also featured Jack Nowell, Anthony Watson, Henry Slade and Luke Cowan-Dickie. They beat Wales 23-15 in the final.

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Jake White: Are modern rugby players actually better?

Of the rugby I’ve born witness to in my lifetime - 1990 to date - I recognize great players throughout those years. But I have no doubt the game and the players are on average better today. So I doubt going back further is going to prove me wrong. The technical components of the game, set pieces, scrums, kicks, kicks at goal. And in general tactics employed are far more efficient, accurate and polished. Professional athletes that have invested countless hours on being accurate. There is one nation though that may be fairly competitive in any era - and that for me is the all blacks. And New Zealand players in general. NZ produces startling athletes who have fantastic ball skills. And then the odd phenomenon like Brooke. Lomu. Mcaw. Carter. Better than comparing players and teams across eras - I’ve often had this thought - that it would be very interesting to have a version of the game that is closer to its original form. What would the game look like today if the rules were rolled back. Not rules that promote safety obviously - but rules like: - a try being worth 1 point and conversion 2 points. Hence the term “try”. Earning a try at goals. Would we see more attacking play? - no lifting in the lineouts. - rucks and break down laws in general. They looked like wrestling matches in bygone eras. I wonder what a game applying 1995 rules would look like with modern players. It may be a daft exercise, but it would make for an interesting spectacle celebrating “purer” forms of the game that roll back the rules dramatically by a few versions. Would we come to learn that some of the rules/combinations of the rules we see today have actually made the game less attractive? I’d love to see an exhibition match like that.

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