Saints taking nothing for granted in Exiles trip
Director of rugby Jim Mallinder says that the Northampton Saints team will be taking nothing for granted in tomorrow’s Aviva Premiership Rugby Round 6 trip to London Irish.
Saints hit the road to Reading tomorrow on the back of their best ever start to an Aviva Premiership Rugby season. But Mallinder says that the visitors to the Madejski Stadium will be on their guard against a London Irish outfit which has plenty of international talent available and won last time out at home.
“We have had a promising start to our season, but we know that if we lose concentration we will be in danger of losing our record,” he said. “London Irish have plenty of danger in all areas of their team and their goal kickers will punish us if we lose our discipline in our own half.
“Last Friday’s game against Wasps was just about our most complete performance of the season, and we will be looking to build on that tomorrow. We need to maintain control, impose ourselves and take our chances, and then we will have the result we want.”
NORTHAMPTON SAINTS TEAM TO PLAY LONDON IRISH
Aviva Premiership Rugby Round 6
Madejski Stadium
Saturday, October 4th, 2012
Kick off 3:00pm
15 James WILSON
14 Ken PISI
13 Dom WALDOUCK
12 Luther BURRELL
11 Vasily ARTEMYEV
10 Stephen MYLER
9 Lee DICKSON
1 Soane TONGA’UIHA
2 Mike HAYWOOD
3 Brian MUJATI
4 Samu MANOA
5 Mark SORENSON
6 Courtney LAWES
7 Tom WOOD
8 Phil DOWSON (capt)
Replacements
16 Ross MCMILLAN
17 Alex WALLER
18 Paul DORAN JONES
19 Teimana HARRISON
20 Rhys OAKLEY
21 Martin ROBERTS
22 Ryan LAMB
23 Tom MAY
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