Grayson - No excuses - Sport in brief

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The Saints ended their season with a 27-22 victory over London Irish, but it was not enough to keep them up.

Grayson said: "It's been too late since February. We've struggled to win games and ultimately we got what we deserved. The players haven't produced and that's a collective responsibility."

Relegation will cost Saints around £2million and Grayson admitted jobs will be lost in order to balance the books.

He said: "This outcome been a topic of conversation for a long, long time.

"When you have to plan out a season and take account of relegation then you've already gone through part of the grieving process.

"What disappoints me is we got ourselves in this position in the first place - we should never have been here.

"As someone sitting at the top of pile I also have to take it on the chin.

"The players are desperately hurt in the changing room and if they could start next season now they would.

"Injuries, poor form and some documented stuff behind the scenes put us in the position where relegation was a possibility."