Harry Mallinder signs new deal at Saints

Northampton Saints have announced that Harry Mallinder has signed a contract extension at Franklin’s Gardens until 2020.

The 21-year-old has been at Saints since 2007 having come through the Academy setup and won a Premiership Academies League title back in 2014.

"Northampton Saints has a proud history of bringing through top quality players from our Academy and Harry certainly falls into this category,” said Chief Executive Mark Darbon.

“We want to build a world class team with a backbone of home grown talent to be successful. Harry has all the abilities to play a big part in this and we are thrilled that he has committed his future to the Saints.”

Mallinder's career has also been decorated with international honours, the back progressing through the England age groups and captaining the Under-20s to a Junior World title on home soil in 2016, a year in which Mallinder was nominated for the Junior World Player of the Year.

He has raced to 50 appearances for the Saints, hitting the milestone this past weekend against Clermont Auvergne.