Northampton Saints lists squad for upcoming Aviva Premiership encounter against Newcastle Falcons
Franklin Garden’s based English professional Rugby Union club, Northampton Saints, has announced their match day squad for their upcoming 2011/12 Aviva Premiership encounter against the Newcastle
Falcons. Officials at the club have confirmed the announcement of the squad in a statement released on their website on Friday, October 28.
The squad features five changes in their starting xv, which took the field in their last weekend’s Anglo Welsh Cup (LV=Cup) encounter against the Ospreys. Saints will host the Newcastle Falcons
in their round 7 encounter of the premiership on Saturday, October 29.
Saints will enter the match with two bonus points wins in their last two LV=Cup encounters against the Saracens and Ospreys. In their last Aviva Premiership encounter, Saints registered their
second win of the tournament by beating Exeter Chiefs.
Saints currently are placed at the ninth position on the table with nine points. They will be looking to register a bonus point win over the Falcon who is currently placed at the bottom of
the table.
Northampton Saints Director of Rugby, Jim Mallinder, has termed team selection as a difficult task. He has switched as many as 30 players in their last three outings in the season. He added
that the task becomes even more daunting as their ace players were either injured or away on national duty.
Mallinder made these comments while talking to the Saints TV officials. He added, “We had a difficult start to the season but we've started slowly to turn it around. We had a good display against
Exeter, a good display against Saracens a couple of weeks ago and then we carried that on against the Ospreys.”
Mallinder further added, “We're not happy about where we are and we need to make sure it's all about Saturday and winning against Newcastle. We're ninth in the table and they're twelfth, and
we're desperate for wins and for points.”
Northampton Saints squad for their upcoming encounter against the Newcastle Falcons consists of
Starting XV: 15 Ben Foden, 14 Chris Ashton, 13 Jon Clarke, 12 Tom May, 11 Vasily Artemyev, 10 Ryan Lamb, 9 Lee Dickson, 8 Phil Dowson, 7 Tom Wood, 6 Calum Clark, 5 Courtney
Lawes, 4 Samu Manoa 3 Brian Mujati, 2 Dylan Hartley (c), 1 Soane Tonga'uiha.
Replacements: 16 Mike Haywood, 17 Alex Waller, 18 Paul Doran Jones, 19 Mark Sorenson, 20 Roger Wilson, 21 Martin Roberts, 22 Stephen Myler, 23 Scott Armstrong.
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