Saints bounced back from relegation in 2007 to win every game in Division One and have been rebuilding ready for the Premiership challenge.
Odds have been published this morning for the forthcoming season:
Guinness Premiership title
3/1 - Wa
sps; 7/2 - Gloucester and Leicester; 8/1 - Bath and Sale Sharks; 12/1 - Saracens; 20/1 - Harlequins and London Irish; 40/1 - Worcester; 50/1 - Northampton; 80/1 - Bristol; 100/1 - Newcastle.
Guinness Premiership relegation
9/4 - Newcastle; 3/1 - Bristol; 4/1 - Northampton; 9/2 - Worcester; 12/1 - Harlequins and London Irish; 33/1 - Saracens; 50/1 - Bath and Sale Sharks; 100/1 - Gloucester, Leicester and Wasps.
Guinness Premiership top points scorer
5/1 - Glen Jackson (Saracens); 6/1 - Charlie Hodgson (Sale Sharks) and Nick Evans (Harlequins); 7/1 - Olly Barkley (Gloucester); 8/1 - Derrick Hougaard (Leicester); 9/1 - Butch James (Bath) and Peter Hewat (London Irish); 10/1 - Bruce Reihana (Northampton); 12/1 - Jonny Wilkinson (Newcastle); 16/1 - Loki Crichton (Worcester).
Guinness Premiership top try scorer
7/1 - Lesley Vainikolo (Gloucester); 8/1 - Tom Varndell (Leicester); 9/1 - Chris Ashton (Northampton); 10/1 - Matt Banahan (Bath); 12/1 - Alesana Tuilagi (Leicester) and James Simpson-Daniel (Gloucester); 16/1 - Paul Sackey (Wasps), Topsy Ojo (London Irish) and Tom Voyce (Wasps); 20/1 - Josh Lewsey (Wasps), Mark Cueto (Sale Sharks), Kameli Ratuvou (Saracens), Mathew Tait (Sale Sharks), Miles Benjamin (Worcester), Oriol Ripol (Sale Sharks) and Sailosi Tagicakibau (London Irish).
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