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Posted 801 days ago
Northampton Saints today announced that Russian back Vasili Artemiev will be joining the club later this year.
The 23-year-old, who can play either on the wing or at full back, will be a familiar face to supporters who watched the 2010 Churchill Cup. Artemiev scored in all three of Russia’s games, including against the England Saxons, and his effort against Uruguay…
Posted 805 days ago
When Guinness and Land Rover sponsored the Premiership, they challenged a few of the participating clubs to a sunroof challenge – similar to the crossbar challenge. Check it out…
Posted 809 days ago
NORTHAMPTON SAINTS today announced the signing of Samoan international George Pisi ahead of the 2011/12 season.
Regarded highly as a counter-attacking full back, Pisi will finish the 2010/11 season at Top 14 team Clermont Auvergne, where he has been drafted in as a medical joker for the final third of the French domestic season. “Hopefully playing at Clermont will be…
Posted 813 days ago
Injuries and international call ups mean that Gloucester Rugby Head Coach Bryan Redpath has called up a couple of his young guns for Saturday’s Aviva Premiership Rugby fixture at Northampton Saints.
Redpath has tried, by and large, to keep faith with the side that defeated London Irish at Kingsholm last Friday.
However, the resumption of the RBS Six Nations sees the Lawsons, Rory and…
Posted 827 days ago
Northampton Saints today named the team that will play in tomorrow’s Aviva Premiership Rugby match against Saracens.
It is the Saints’ first Aviva Premiership Rugby match in a month, and following four weeks of European and Anglo-Welsh competition director of rugby Jim Mallinder said today that the team is eager for the league to resume.
“We’ve had a bit of a break…
Posted 838 days ago
The 25-year-old prop joins the Saints from Gloucester, where he has played for the last two seasons. Comfortable on either side of the scrum, Doran-Jones was capped by England in the 2009 Autumn Internationals and is in the England Elite Playing Squad currently preparing for the Six Nations. A member of England’s touring party last summer, Doran-Jones has also played…
Posted 843 days ago
Northampton Saints today announced that Stephen Myler has signed a new contract with the club.
Myler, 26, has spent his entire rugby union career at Franklin’s Gardens, where he arrived as part of the Saints Senior Academy in 2006.
Four-and-a-half years later the fly half has passed the 100-appearance mark, earned England Saxons honours and won winners’ medals in the Amlin Challenge…
Posted 845 days ago
As predicted Northampton’s Heineken Cup quarter-final against Ulster has been switched to Stadium:mk in Milton Keynes. The Saints sought special dispensation from European Rugby Cup organisers to keep the game at Franklin’s Gardens, even though it falls below the minimum 15,000 capacity.
But that effort was turned down and Chief executive Allan Robson told BBC Radio Northampton: “The regulation is clear…
Posted 848 days ago
Northampton Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder says that all of the attention this week at Franklin’s Gardens has been given to achieving a positive result in Castres this weekend.
The Saints qualified for the Heineken Cup quarter finals with their Round 5 win over Edinburgh. But with a home tie far from certain Mallinder says that he wants the Saints…
Posted 856 days ago
Northampton Saints have confirmed that Phil Dowson has renewed his commitment to the club by signing a new contract.
Dowson, 29, has been at Franklin’s Gardens since the summer of 2009. After racking up 128 appearances at former club Newcastle his tally of outings in the black, green and gold has risen quickly and he is just three appearances away from…
