Starting Lineup
14
Mitieli Vulikijapani
Subs
Opposition Lineup
15
George Pearson
14
Malelili Satala
13
Will Wand
12
Solomone Kata
11
Jack Kinder
10
Jamie Shillcock
9
Tom Whiteley
1
James Whitcombe
2
Finn Theobald-Thomas
3
Tim Hoyt
4
Côme Joussain
5
Tom Manz
6
Matt Rogerson
7
Emeka Ilione
8
Kyle Hatherell
Subs
16
Archie Vanes
17
Archie Van Der Flier
18
Henry Mountford
19
Lewis Chessum
20
Sam Williams
21
Charlie Bemand
22
Charlie Myall
23
Tom Threlfall
| pos | team | team name | pld | w | d | l | f | a | diff | tf | ta | tb | lb | pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 |  | Northampton SaintsNOR | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 41 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
4 | | Leicester TigersLEI | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 31 | 64 | -33 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Full Time
Northampton Saints
31
Leicester Tigers
12
SAINTS WIN!!!!!
Makepeace-Cubitt kicks the ball into the Carlsberg Stand, Saints win 31-12!
80
Conversion missed
Shillcock's touchline conversion strikes a post and bounces to safety. There’s time for the restart.
Try Tigers
Will Wand finishes a sweeping move for Tigers in the left corner.
77
Man of the Match
Tarek Haffar has been awarded man of the match by TNT.
Another Saints debut from the bench, with Sonny Tonga’uiha replacing Luke Green here at cinch Stadium.
(66 mins)
Two more debuts for Saints as Nathan Langdon and Will Spencer both enter play for Saints, with Craig Wright and Gavin Thornbury making way.
(64 mins)
Emmanuel Iyogun, Josh Kemeny and Jonny Weimann all enter the game – with the latter making his Saints debut in the process – to replace Tarek Haffar, Angus Scott-Young and Mitieli Vulikijapani for Saints.
(58 mins)
TRY BAKER!!
Silky handling from Saints and eventually it's Ewan Baker who takes the offload from Henry to score his first try in Black, Green and Gold out on the left!
(58 mins)
George Makepeace-Cubitt adds the extras from the tee too!
(54 mins)
TRY HENDY!!
It's the bonus point try for Saints as Archie McParland holds his pass just long enough to allow George Hendy to sneak through Tigers’ line and step the last man to score!
(53 mins)
James Ramm is replaced by Ewan Baker.
(50 mins)
40
We're back underway here at cinch Stadium!
That's half-time here at cinch Stadium.
TRY LITCHFIELD!
Smooth handling from Saints’ backs puts Charlie Savala in space and he ships it out to fellow centre Tom Litchfield to score out on the left wing!
(37 mins)
George Makepeace-Cubitt adds the extras too!
(23 mins)
TRY RAMM!
Henry Pollock peels forwards off a scrum and it's sweet two offloads from there that see James Ramm who round the corner and over the tryline to score!
(22 mins)
The referee shows Tigers’ Tom Whiteley a yellow card as he deliberately impedes a Saints attack with a knock on.
(21 mins)
Tom Seabrook leaves the field for a HIA, with James Ramm taking his place.
(15 mins)
George Makepeace-Cubitt adds the conversion to level the scores.
(15 mins)
TRY POLLOCK!!
Saints attack patiently and work their way into Tigers' 22, before George Makepeace-Cubitt sends a perfectly weighted cross field kick over out to the left wing. Henry Pollock was out their waiting and beat Tigers to the bouncing ball to gather and score!
(14 mins)
Jamie Shillcock adds the extras from the tee too.
(8 mins)
Try Tigers.
Tigers pressure Saints' tryline and eventually it's Malelili Satala who stretches over to open the scoring.
(8 mins)
HERE WE GO!
The first East Midlands Derby of the season in Northampton in on here at cinch Stadium!