a bruising training session involving 50 scrums is how tom wood 's northampton prepared for saturday 's top-of-the-table meeting with saracens that the champions have creaked in recent weeks and england flanker wood , who claims saints ' opponents have ` smelt blood ' , is desperate to re-gather the momentum that the saints were dumped out of the champions cup quarter-finals as clermont ran riot on their home turf .
` now there 's light at the end of the tunnel and we 're not far off full strength .