Guinness Premiership - Newcastle, 27 November 2009, 20:00 local, 20:00 GMT
Newcastle Falcons (8) 8 - 28 (8) Northampton Saints (FT)

Timeline

Time Newcastle Falcons  Score  Northampton Saints
0 start of first half start of first half
8 0 - 5 Ashton - try
16 Gopperth - penalty goal 3 - 5
18 3 - 8 Geraghty - penalty goal
33 Biggs - try 8 - 8
40 end of first half end of first half
40 start of second half start of second half
41 Balding - sub off
Afu - sub on
Murray - sub on
Gonzalez Bonorino - sub off
47 8 - 13 Ashton - try
49 8 - 15 Geraghty - conversion
54 Young - yellow card
55 Williamson - sub on
Sorenson - sub off
60 Kruger - sub off
Day - sub on
61 8 - 18 Geraghty - penalty goal
67 8 - 21 Geraghty - penalty goal
68 Best - sub off
Gray - sub on
70 Bobo - sub on
Williams - sub off
72 Miller - sub on
Vickerman - sub off
Vickers - sub off
Thompson - sub on
80 Charlton - sub on
Young - sub off
8 - 28 Ashton - try
Geraghty - conversion
80+1 end of second half end of second half

Notes

 
Result Northampton Saints won by a margin of 20 points
Guinness Premiership points Northampton Saints 4, Newcastle Falcons 0
 
Ground name Kingston Park, Newcastle
Attendance 6522
 
Referee GM Garner

Teams

Newcastle Falcons Northampton Saints
Tries Biggs (33) Tries Ashton (8, 47, 80)
Cons none Cons Geraghty (49, 80)
Pens Gopperth (16) Pens Geraghty (18, 61, 67)

Match stats

Newcastle Falcons   Northampton Saints
1 Tries 3
0 from 0 Conversion goals 2 from 2
1 from 1 Penalty goals 3 from 3
100.0% Kick at goal success 100.0%
0 Dropped goals 0
Kick/pass/run
24 Kicks from hand 32
107 Passes 99
74 Runs 91
233 Metres run with ball 284
Attacking
0 Clean breaks 5
5 Defenders beaten 11
9 Offloads 9
46 from 46 (100.0%) Rucks won 73 from 73 (100.0%)
0 from 0 Mauls won 0 from 0
16 Turnovers conceded 7
Defensive
97/11 Tackles made/missed 76/5
89.8% Tackling success rate 93.8%
Set pieces
8 won, 1 lost (88.9%) Scrums on own feed 6 won, 0 lost (100.0%)
12 won, 1 lost (92.3%) Lineouts on own throw 8 won, 4 lost (66.7%)
Discipline
9 Penalties conceded 10
1/0 Yellow/red cards 0/0

Newc stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Amesbury 0/0 0 1/0/1 8 0 0 0 1 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Williams 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
C Vickerman 0/0 0 0/0/1 5 0 1 0 1 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
C Tu'ipulotu 0/0 0 0/0/2 1 0 0 0 1 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Biggs 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 2/1 0/0 0 0/0
FH Gopperth 0/0 3 5/3/0 0 0 0 0 0 2/1 0/0 0 0/0
SH Young 0/0 0 1/9/3 6 0 0 0 1 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Golding 0/0 0 0/0/3 7 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 1 0/0
H Vickers 0/0 0 0/0/1 4 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Hayman 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
L Hudson 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 1/1 0 0/0
L Sorenson 0/0 0 0/1/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
F Swinson 0/0 0 0/1/1 2 0 0 0 0 0/0 1/0 0 0/0
F Welch 0/0 0 0/1/1 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 1 0/0
N8 Balding 0/0 0 0/1/3 16 0 0 0 0 0/1 0/0 1 0/0
(H) Thompson 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(N8) Afu 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(L) Williamson 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(SH) Charlton 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(C) Miller 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(W) Bobo 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 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

Nthmp stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Foden 0/0 0 5/6/5 63 0 2 0 2 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Ashton 3/0 15 1/3/5 31 1 1 0 0 2/0 0/0 1 0/0
C Clarke 0/0 0 1/1/3 15 0 2 0 1 6/1 0/0 0 0/0
C Downey 0/0 0 1/3/8 27 1 2 0 0 7/2 0/0 2 0/0
W Ansbro 0/0 0 0/3/5 24 1 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
FH Geraghty 0/2 13 17/19/6 6 0 1 0 1 12/0 1/0 0 0/0
SH Dickson 0/0 0 7/48/2 2 0 0 0 0 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Tonga'uiha 0/1 0 0/3/9 18 0 0 0 0 9/0 0/0 2 0/0
H Hartley 0/0 0 0/2/8 2 0 0 0 0 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Gonzalez Bonorino 0/0 0 0/0/1 4 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
L Lawes 0/0 0 0/2/1 0 0 0 0 1 8/0 0/1 0 0/0
L Kruger 0/0 0 0/1/1 0 0 0 0 0 3/1 3/0 0 0/0
F Dowson 0/0 0 0/4/17 32 1 1 0 0 5/0 1/0 1 0/0
F Best 0/0 0 0/1/6 14 0 0 0 0 6/0 1/0 2 0/0
N8 Wilson 0/0 0 0/1/11 30 0 2 0 2 3/0 1/0 0 0/0
(P) Murray 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(L) Day 0/0 0 0/1/1 7 1 0 0 0 0/0 1/0 1 0/0
(F) Gray 0/0 0 0/1/1 9 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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