Table-topping Northampton on verge of PREM try-scoring record

Northampton Saints will become the first team in PREM Rugby history to score 100 tries in the regular season if they cross the whitewash at the Twickenham Stoop on Saturday.

With a home semi-final already secured, the league leaders have rested several frontline stars for the trip to Harlequins, but it is hard to see them falling one try short of the remarkable milestone given the attacking form that they’ve been in.

Northampton have ran in 99 tries with one round to go, equalling the record that they set for the 24-game regular season in 2021/22 – when they were one of five teams to score 90+ tries – but in seven games fewer.

Defending PREM champions Bath have scored 94 tries this season ahead of the visit of Leicester, and need just three to break the club record for the second season running, despite not seeming to fire on all cylinders since the departure of attack coach Lee Blackett to England.

Saracens, who head to Exeter in a shootout for a place in the play-offs, are the other team to have scored 90 tries this season and the 11th in the history of the competition.

Fraser Dingwall will captain Northampton in south-west London, as Saints chase a fourth win of the season against Quins, and partnersTom Litchfield in midfield.

The fit-again James Ramm is an experienced head in an otherwise raw back-three, which features a second senior start for James Pater at full-back and James Martin on the opposing wing.

Jonny Weimann and Anthony Belleau link up in Northampton’s half-back berths, with both players featuring for the first time since April.

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Upfront, Curtis Langdon recovers from the hand injury that has kept him out of action since April to start at hooker.

He joins Italy’s Danilo Fischetti and Zimbabwe’s Cleopas Kundiona in the front row, who pack down at loosehead and tighthead prop respectively.

Tom Lockett and JJ Van Der Mescht make up Saints’ second row pairing against Quins, while Northampton name an all-action back row of Josh Kemeny, Tom Pearson and Sam Graham.

Sonny Tonga’uiha is set to make his league debut at the Stoop should he enter the action from amongst the replacements, while the likes of Craig Wright, Callum Chick, Toby Thame and George Hendy are also set to enter the action alongside a returning Tom James.

Northampton: 15 James Pater; 14 James Martin, 13 Tom Litchfield, 12 Fraser Dingwall (c), 11 James Ramm; 10 Anthony Belleau, 9 Jonny Weimann; 1 Danilo Fischetti, 2 Curtis Langdon, 3 Cleopas Kundiona, 4 Tom Lockett, 5 JJ Van Der Mescht, 6 Josh Kemeny, 7 Tom Pearson, 8 Sam Graham.
Replacements: 16 Craig Wright, 17 Tom West, 18 Sonny Tonga’uiha – Gallagher PREM debut, 19 Chunya Munga, 20 Callum Chick, 21 Tom James, 22 Toby Thame, 23 George Hendy.

MOST TRIES IN A REGULAR PREM SEASON (season/games)

1= Northampton 99 (2025/26 – 17)
1= Northampton 99 (2021/22 – 24)
3. Bath 96 (2024/25 – 18)
4= Harlequins 95 (2021/22 – 24)
4 = Bristol 95 (2024/25 – 18)
6. Bath 94 (2025/26 – 17)
7= Exeter 93 (2020/21 – 22)
7= Saracens 93 (2021/22 – 24)
7= London Irish 93 (2021/22 – 24)
9. Gloucester 92 (2021/22 – 24)
10. Saracens 90 (2025/26 – 17)