Guinness Premiership - Watford, 1 March 2009, 15:00 local, 15:00 GMT
Saracens (14) 24 - 23 (10) Sale Sharks (FT)

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Timeline

Time Saracens  Score  Sale Sharks
0 start of first half start of first half
8 Jackson - penalty goal 3 - 0
13 Lloyd - try 8 - 0
16 8 - 7 Schofield - try
Thomas - conversion
17 Visagie - sub on
Johnston - sub off
21 Wigglesworth - sub off
Leck - sub on
Turner - sub on
Lewis-Roberts - sub off
29 8 - 10 Thomas - penalty goal
32 Jackson - drop goal
Lloyd - sub off
Seymour - sub on		 11 - 10
35 Jackson - penalty goal
Visagie - sub off
Kyriacou - sub on		 14 - 10
36 GM Jones - sub on
Turner - sub off
40 end of first half end of first half
40 start of second half start of second half
41 Cockbain - sub off
Cox - sub on
53 Cato - try
Jackson - conversion		 21 - 10
54 Tait - sub on
Faure - sub off
56 21 - 15 Thomas - try
58 21 - 18 Thomas - penalty goal
59 Jack - sub off
Chesney - sub on
63 Jackson - penalty goal 24 - 18
65 Doherty - sub off
Kuadey - sub on
70 Barritt - sub on
- sub off
Penney - sub on
Haughton - sub off
76 Marshall - sub off
Wilson - sub on		 24 - 23 Schofield - try
80 end of second half end of second half

Notes

 
Result Saracens won by a margin of 1 point
Guinness Premiership points Saracens 4, Sale Sharks 1 (1 losing bonus)
 
Ground name Vicarage Road, Watford
Attendance 8311
 
Referee TJ Wigglesworth

Teams

Saracens Sale Sharks
Tries Lloyd (13), Cato (53) Tries Schofield (16, 76), Thomas (56)
Cons Jackson (53) Cons Thomas (16)
Pens Jackson (8, 35, 63) Pens Thomas (29, 58)
Drops Jackson (32) Drops none
    Team
15 FB
Alex Goode
14 W
Richard Haughton
13 C
Kameli Ratuvou
12 C
Adam Powell
11 W
Noah Cato
10 FH
Glen Jackson
9 SH
Justin Marshall
1 P
Nick Lloyd
2 H
Matt Cairns
3 P
Census Johnston
4 L
Chris Jack
5 L
Hugh Vyvyan
6 F
Wikus van Heerden (c)
7 F
Andy Saull
8 N8
Ben Skirving
    Replacements
16 P
Andy Kyriacou
17 P
Cobus Visagie
18 L
Kris Chesney
19 P
David Seymour
20 SH
Mickey Wilson
21 C
Brad Barritt
22 W
Rodd Penney
    Team
15 FB
Nick Macleod
14 W
Chris Bell
13 C
Rudi Keil
12 C
Lee Thomas
11 W
David Doherty
10 FH
Charlie Hodgson
9 SH
Richard Wigglesworth
1 P
Lionel Faure
2 H
Neil Briggs
3 P
Eifion Lewis-Roberts
4 L
Dean Schofield
5 L
Brent Cockbain
6 F
Chris Jones
7 F
Luke Abraham
8 N8
Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe (c)
    Replacements
16 P
Marc Jones
17 P
Stuart Turner
18 L
Sean Cox
19 P
David Tait
20 SH
Chris Leck
21
Oriol Ripol Fortuny
22 W
Selorm Kuadey

Match stats

Saracens   Sale Sharks
2 Tries 3
1 from 1 Conversion goals 1 from 1
3 from 3 Penalty goals 2 from 2
100.0% Kick at goal success 100.0%
1 Dropped goals 0
Kick/pass/run
24 Kicks from hand 28
124 Passes 167
92 Runs 113
391 Metres run with ball 554
Attacking
4 Clean breaks 5
6 Defenders beaten 10
7 Offloads 6
65 from 68 (95.6%) Rucks won 77 from 83 (92.8%)
0 from 0 Mauls won 0 from 0
13 Turnovers conceded 15
Defensive
129/10 Tackles made/missed 104/6
92.8% Tackling success rate 94.5%
Set pieces
7 won, 0 lost (100.0%) Scrums on own feed 9 won, 0 lost (100.0%)
17 won, 0 lost (100.0%) Lineouts on own throw 11 won, 3 lost (78.6%)
Discipline
12 Penalties conceded 11
0/0 Yellow/red cards 0/0

Sarac stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Goode 0/0 0 8/2/8 96 1 1 1 1 1/1 0/0 1 0/0
W Haughton 0/0 0 0/1/4 40 0 0 0 0 4/0 0/0 2 0/0
C Ratuvou 0/0 0 1/2/7 25 0 0 0 2 11/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Cato 1/0 5 1/3/7 78 2 3 0 1 3/2 0/0 1 0/0
FH Jackson 0/0 14 6/24/3 8 0 0 0 1 5/0 2/0 0 0/0
SH Marshall 0/0 0 8/46/7 21 0 1 3 0 8/0 1/0 0 0/0
P Lloyd 1/0 5 0/1/3 21 0 0 0 1 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
H Cairns 0/0 0 0/6/2 0 0 0 0 0 7/0 0/0 1 0/0
P Johnston 0/0 0 0/0/1 19 1 0 0 1 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
L Jack 0/2 0 0/4/5 13 0 0 2 2 2/1 5/1 0 0/0
L Vyvyan 0/0 0 0/1/4 3 0 0 0 0 14/1 3/0 2 0/0
F van Heerden 0/0 0 0/5/12 11 0 0 2 1 11/2 0/0 1 0/0
F Saull 0/0 0 0/0/6 4 0 0 0 0 9/1 0/0 2 0/0
N8 Skirving 0/0 0 0/7/6 19 0 0 1 2 7/0 5/1 0 0/0
(P) Kyriacou 0/0 0 0/0/1 4 0 0 0 0 9/1 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Visagie 0/0 0 0/2/1 0 0 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
(L) Chesney 0/0 0 0/1/3 2 0 0 0 0 1/0 1/1 0 0/0
(P) Seymour 0/0 0 0/2/5 7 0 0 0 0 10/1 0/0 0 0/0
(SH) Wilson 0/0 0 0/3/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(C) Barritt 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
(W) Penney 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
Key:  T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

Sale stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Macleod 0/0 0 4/11/12 99 1 2 2 2 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Bell 0/0 0 2/1/6 24 0 0 1 0 4/2 0/0 1 0/0
C Keil 0/0 0 2/7/8 37 0 0 0 0 9/0 0/0 1 0/0
C Thomas 1/0 13 1/4/11 42 0 0 1 1 12/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Doherty 0/0 0 2/2/7 71 1 0 0 1 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
FH Hodgson 0/0 0 16/37/6 28 0 1 0 1 3/1 0/0 1 0/0
SH Wigglesworth 0/0 0 1/10/2 3 0 0 0 0 2/1 1/0 0 0/0
P Faure 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
H Briggs 0/0 0 0/4/2 4 0 0 0 0 9/0 0/0 1 0/0
P Lewis-Roberts 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
L Schofield 2/0 10 0/0/10 62 1 1 0 2 4/0 3/0 1 0/0
L Cockbain 0/0 0 0/1/2 1 0 0 0 2 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
F CM Jones 0/1 0 0/2/7 23 0 2 1 0 7/2 3/0 1 0/0
F Abraham 0/0 0 0/6/7 5 0 0 1 1 14/0 1/0 2 0/0
N8 Fernandez Lobbe 0/0 0 0/9/14 85 2 4 1 2 11/0 1/0 0 0/0
(P) GM Jones 0/0 0 0/0/7 14 0 0 0 0 6/0 1/0 0 0/0
(P) Turner 0/0 0 0/1/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(L) Cox 0/0 0 0/1/3 10 0 0 0 1 4/0 1/0 0 0/0
(P) Tait 0/0 0 0/0/2 12 0 0 0 1 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(SH) Leck 0/1 0 0/67/5 7 0 0 0 1 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(W) Kuadey 0/0 0 0/0/2 27 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
Key:  T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

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