Mallinder ready to freshen up Saints' squad and playing style
Mallinder’s men finished the 2015/16 campaign with a win at Gloucester last weekend, securing fifth place in the Aviva Premiership.
They finished five points behind fourth-placed Leicester Tigers, failing to make the play-offs for the first time since 2009.
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Hide AdThe likes of Kahn Fotuali’i and Victor Matfield will be leaving the club this summer, with South African scrum-half Nic Groom and France No.8 Louis Picamoles coming in.
And Mallinder says there will be more recruitment, with a lock seemingly top of the list of targets.
“We’ve got to regroup and freshen things up a bit,” said the director of rugby. “We’ve already announced a couple of new signings and we’ll get a couple more on top of that.
“We probably need to do things a little bit differently and hopefully progress our game.
“We want to be challenging for silverware every single year and that’s the pressure we put on ourselves.”