Newcastle Falcons v Northampton Saints

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Other Round 9 Fixtures

Friday, 27 November 2009

Sale Sharks v London Wasps
Newcastle Falcons v Northampton Saints
Worcester Warriors v Saracens

Saturday, 28 November 2009

Harlequins v Gloucester Rugby
Leicester Tigers v Leeds Carnegie
Bath Rugby v London Irish

 

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NORTHAMPTON SAINTS TEAM TO PLAY NEWCASTLE
Guinness Premiership Round 9
Kingston Park
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Kick off 8:00pm
15 Ben Foden
14 Chris Ashton
13 Jon Clarke
12 James Downey
11 Bruce Reihana
10 Shane Geraghty
9 Lee Dickson
1 Soane Tonga'uiha
2 Dylan Hartley (capt)
3 Santiago Bonorino
4 Courtney Lawes
5 Juandre Kruger
6 Phil Dowson
7 Neil Best
8 Roger Wilson

Replacements
16 Brett Sharman
17 Regardt Dreyer
18 Euan Murray
19 Christian Day
20 Scott Gray
21 Alan Dickens
22 Stephen Myler
23 Joe Ansbro

 

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Newcastle Falcons team to face Northampton Saints:

15 Alex Tait
14 Charlie Amesbury
13 Rob Vickerman
12 Tane Tu'ipulotu
11 Tom Biggs
10 Jimmy Gopperth
9 Micky Young

1 Jon Golding
2 Rob Vickers
3 Carl Hayman (captain)
4 James Hudson
5 Mark Sorenson
6 Tim Swinson
7 Will Welch
8 Adam Balding

Replacements:

16 Alex Walker
17 Micky Ward
18 Laurence Ovens
19 Josh Afu
20 Ed Williamson
21 Hall Charlton
22 Rob Miller
23 Gcobani Bobo

 

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http://www.guinnesspremiership.com/rugby/12234.php

Preview: Newcastle Falcons v Northampton Saints

Newcastle have won their last three encounters with Northampton, whilst the Saints only victory at Kingston Park in their last six visits since 2001 was 32-13 on 26 March 2006.
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Newcastle Falcons have now recorded three successive victories in the Guinness Premiership, against Bath, Worcester and London Irish. The Falcons only win in the Premiership at Kingston Park this season came last time out, 14-3, against Worcester.

Northampton Saints have won their last three matches in all competitions since their 15-29 defeat at Leicester in the Guinness Premiership on 31 October. The Saints only away victory in the Premiership this campaign came at Gloucester on 19 September.

Referee: Greg Garner (5th Premiership game)

 

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Shane Geraghty makes a tap penalty and puts Ashton in the corner while Newcastle go to sleep after 5 minutes.

0-5

 

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Conversion missed, still 0-5


Still, ARE YOU WATCHING ENGLAND??? THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PLAY A GOOD 10 AT 10!

 

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Newcastle pen, Gopperth has a chance to pull back 3 points; Got it

3-5

 

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Saints penalty;

Geraghty gets it

3-8

18 minutes gone.

 

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Roger Wilson doesn't know where the gate is and Newcastle win a penalty from 40m out;

Gopperth lines it up.... Pulls it to the left

Score still 3-8

 

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Long period of pressure likely to put Newcastle over soon....

 

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Tom Biggs goes over in the corner, 8-8 with the conversion to come.

Gopperth goes for it from wide; He slips and hit's the crossbar. Missed

Still 8-8

 

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Teh Mite @ Nov 27 2009, 08:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Tom Biggs goes over in the corner, 8-8 with the conversion to come.

Gopperth goes for it from wide; He slips and hit's the crossbar. Missed

Still 8-8[/b]

Bet he's kicking himself.

He'd probably miss that too :lol:

 

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Saints go back 60m with ball thanks to a series of errors.

 

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Danny Williams shows his rugby league pedigree and runs straight into his opposite number before knocking on...

 

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HT 8-8

 

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Ashton scores his second and it's converted

15-8

 

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Murray is doing a number on Heyman & co.

 

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Geraghty penalty, 8-21

 

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Falcon stretchered off. Dunno who.

 

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Ashton scores a hat-trick. 8-26

Geraghty gets the conversion from the touchline: 8-28 Final score