{"id":5486,"date":"2026-01-09T13:45:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5486"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:45:02","slug":"northampton-saints-pair-sam-graham-and-elliot-millar-mills-to-leave-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5486","title":{"rendered":"Northampton Saints pair Sam Graham and Elliot Millar Mills to leave club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northampton are currently top of the early Prem table after nine matches, and are hoping to repeat their title triumph of 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m incredibly grateful to Saints for the opportunity they gave me at a time when things were pretty uncertain in my career,&#8221; Millar Mills said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Walking through the doors here and being welcomed the way I was is something I&#8217;ll never forget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For now, my focus is fully on helping the lads finish this season as strongly as possible. I&#8217;m committed to giving everything for the group for the remainder of my time here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Graham&#8217;s four seasons at Franklin&#8217;s Gardens, meanwhile, also saw him handed the captaincy for a number of Premiership Rugby Cup matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Coming in from a Champ club to an environment like this was a dream come true, and since then we&#8217;ve won a Prem title and created some amazing memories \u2013 being part of that group and that journey is something I&#8217;ll always treasure,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve loved my time at Saints, but it feels like the right moment to take the next step. That said, I still feel I&#8217;ve got plenty left to give.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northampton are currently top of the early Prem table after nine matches, and are hoping to repeat their title triumph of 2024. &#8220;I&#8217;m incredibly grateful to Saints for the opportunity they gave me at a time when things were pretty uncertain in my career,&#8221; Millar Mills said. &#8220;Walking through the doors here and being welcomed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}