Harlequins’ Marcus Smith orchestrates latest hammering of Northampton

• Harlequins 50-21 Northampton
• 18-year-old fly-half shines against inept Saints

The new year cannot come quickly enough for Northampton, humiliated again on their second outing to Twickenham this season by a hot-stepping Harlequins, for whom Marcus Smith excelled as conductor-in-chief.

The 18-year-old Smith had a hand in five of Quins’ seven tries and contributed 15 points with the boot. He was again named as an apprentice in Eddie Jones’s England squad on Friday but this was a masterful performance. Had he been wearing white he would not have looked out of place.

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