Northampton again row Sam Graham says the gamers will take a “lengthy exhausting look” at themselves following Friday’s 62-8 Premiership thrashing at Bristol.
Saints went into the sport third within the desk, with three successive league wins behind them.
However with a variety of gamers absent due to accidents and worldwide calls, they suffered their worst result in the Premiership.
“We’ll overview it actually,” Graham informed BBC Radio Northampton.
“Inside this group, there’s nonetheless a lot confidence.
“We’ll take an actual lengthy exhausting take a look at ourselves and with out being informed, we’ll know what we have to do.
“And subsequent week it is about placing that on the pitch [against Bath].”
Northampton remained third – forward of Saturday’s video games – regardless of the consequence, with 4 extra video games to play, however they’re solely 4 factors forward of Gloucester, and 5 away from Exeter and Leicester, who’re fifth and sixth.
Director of rugby Phil Dowson admitted his facet’s vulnerabilities had been “cruelly uncovered” by a Bears facet who ran in 9 tries.
“I feel that’s going to harm for fairly some time,” stated Graham.
“There was plenty of expectation on the again of a great run which we wished to maintain rolling.
“It simply goes to indicate that [it’s about] small margins, if you do not get issues proper, you get punished at this stage.
“I do know that is stated quite a bit nevertheless it was messy and we could not get momentum onto the ball like we had final week, whereas they have been fast in that space.
“It felt as if the floodgates opened and that is actually disappointing. It isn’t who we’re as a group and our resilience has received to be a bit higher than that if we’re speaking about prime 4.”
Following Friday’s residence recreation in opposition to Tub, Saints journey to London Irish earlier than taking over leaders Saracens at residence after which ending their regular-season schedule with a visit to Newcastle Falcons.
They reached the play-offs final season earlier than shedding to eventual champions Leicester, the primary time they’d completed within the prime 4 since 2019.
