Northampton host Bath in a top-of-the-table conflict and their third assembly this season, with each side having one win every thus far (Saints within the Prem, Bath within the Champions Cup).
Just a degree separates the edges in the meanwhile and Phil Dowson has made three tweaks to his team, with Tommy Freeman returning to the wing alongside Ollie Sleightholme as George Furbank misses out by concussion protocols.
Prop Luke Green returns from damage whereas Henry Pollock steps up from the bench to the again row.
With a Champions Cup semi-final away to Bordeaux on 3 May looming, Bath have, in contrast, made 13 changes for their journey to Franklin’s Gardens with nearly all of their first-choice gamers rested.
Fly-half Ciaran Donoghue makes a primary look of the season having recovered from a long-term knee damage, whereas teenage full-back Sam Winters is in line for his Prem debut amongst these on the bench.
Northampton: Hendy; Freeman, Litchfield, Dingwall (c), Sleightholme; F Smith, Mitchell; Iyogun, Wright, Green; Lockett, Prowse, Kemeny, Graham, Pollock.
Replacements: R Smith, Fischetti, Kundiona, Van der Mescht, Munga, Chick, McParland, Hutchinson.
Bath: De Glanville; Hennessey, Harris, Butt, Muir; Donoghue, Van der Linde; Kirk, Frost, Verden; Richards, Molony, Bayliss, Reid (c), Green.
Replacements: Tuipulotu, Van Wyk, Griffin, Opoku-Gyamfu, Hill, Carr-Smith, Winters, Underhill.
