Richard Blaze's hopes of winning a first England cap in the autumn internationals faded when the lock was ruled out of Leicester's 29-15 win over Northampton with a recurrence of a foot injury.

Jeremy Staunton kicked 19 points, including conversions of tries from Lucas Amorosino and Anthony Allen which broke Northampton's resistance.

Northampton scored two excellent first-half tries, both stemming from menacing runs from Bruce Reihana, but lacked their familiar cutting edge without England pair Ben Foden and Shane Geraghty and managed only a second-half penalty from Stephen Myler.