Tizard seeks final push now big guns are back

SARACENS can secure a top-two Premiership finish this weekend, and in the process put city rivals Harlequins in major play-off jeopardy.

- Nick Purewal

The Men In Black have powered to a six-point lead, with a game in hand, at the summit in the absence of all their Test stars.

Now, though, the big guns will roll out, as Sarries host Quins at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in a pivotal league derby.

Hugh Tizard traded Harlequins for Saracens last summer, and as well as facing old friends tomorrow, the 22-year-old lock will review a profitable eight months in north London.

Tizard has moved out of the family home, got to grips with Saracens’ setpiece supremacy and helped Mark McCall’s men return their best results of the season during the tricky Test windows.

“Across the autumn and the Six Nations it’s been our most successful block in the Premiership, without the international players, so that’s been really pleasing,” Tizard told Standard Sport.