Saints v Saracens Friday 7.45

[fivepointer]

NORTHAMPTON SAINTS vs SARACENS
Gallagher PREM, Round 5
Friday 24 October, 2025
cinch Stadium at Franklin’s Gardens
Kick-off: 7.45pm

15 George Hendy
14 Tommy Freeman
13 Rory Hutchinson
12 Fraser Dingwall (c) – 150th Saints appearance
11 Edoardo Todaro
10 Fin Smith
9 Alex Mitchell

1 Danilo Fischetti
2 Robbie Smith
3 Trevor Davison – 100th PREM appearance
4 Tom Lockett
5 JJ Van Der Mescht
6 Alex Coles – 100th PREM appearance
7 Tom Pearson
8 Henry Pollock

Replacements:
16 Craig Wright
17 Emmanuel Iyogun
18 Luke Green
19 Ed Prowse
20 Callum Chick
21 Archie McParland
22 Anthony Belleau
23 Tom Litchfield

SARACENS TEAM TO FACE SAINTS:
15 Max Malins, 14 Noah Caluori, 13 Nick Tompkins, 12 Owen Farrell, 11 Jack Bracken, 10 Fergus Burke, 9 Charlie Bracken; 1 Eroni Mawi, 2 Theo Dan, 3 Marco Riccioni, 4 Maro Itoje (c), 5 Hugh Tizard, 6 Juan Martin Gonzalez, 7 Andy Onyeama-Christie, 8 Tom Willis
Replacements: 16 James Hadfield, 17 Rhys Carre, 18 Marcus Street, 19 Nick Isiekwe, 20 Theo McFarland, 21 Ben Earl, 22 Gareth Simpson, 23 Angus Hall.

[FKAS]

The 19 year old wing hotshots face off.

Clash of styles here, Saints should be favourites but they did make hard work of it Vs Newcastle.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Great to see Gus back after his run out against Oxford Uni last week. And Sarries continuing to back their youth on the wings. Yes injuries gave them the chance, but both have grasped it with both hands so far.

[Oakboy]

Willis v Pollock and Farrell v Dingwall could be interesting.

[FKAS]

Great to see Gus back after his run out against Oxford Uni last week. And Sarries continuing to back their youth on the wings. Yes injuries gave them the chance, but both have grasped it with both hands so far.

Great to see them backing youth at 9 as well.

[Danno]

I will never not laugh when I say 'Edoardo Todaro' in a cod Spanish accent

[Puja]

Some good auditions for England roles in that match - Dingwall, Coles, and Pollock especially. Interesting that they're picking Pollock over Chick at 8, who's been ever-present for Saints so far - I wonder if that's a request from England?

Puja

[Epaminondas Pules]

Great to see Gus back after his run out against Oxford Uni last week. And Sarries continuing to back their youth on the wings. Yes injuries gave them the chance, but both have grasped it with both hands so far.

Great to see them backing youth at 9 as well.

Great chance for Bracken the elder to stake his claim to the 9 shirt.

[twitchy]

I really enjoy the friday evening fixtures. This looks like it could be great.

[fivepointer]

Plenty of interesting match ups with a few guys looking for a good performance with next weeks international looming.

[twitchy]

Fantastic from saints.

[francoisfou]

Like Pollock’s Boris hairdo!

[FKAS]

Fantastic from saints.

The try was lovely but Hendy is very close to having overrun that, had the TMO wanted to go all VAR that could have been ruled out. Given he's bodged his first two catches under the high ball Hendy needed try to get himself into the game positively.

[FKAS]

Sliced clearance and then a bungled kick collection (albeit under a lot of pressure), Malins not enjoying himself either. Rough start for both fullbacks so far.

[Captainhaircut]

Dan having another horror game.

[FKAS]

Dan having another horror game.

Like the bloke down the pub who talks up how good he is at darts, has three pints as a "warm up" then proceeds to fit the furnishings more than the board.

Outside the lineout he's been ok but you can't be that bad at the lineout and have international aspirations. Ask Blamire (who's better than what Dan is showing).

[twitchy]

Saints cruising.

[Captainhaircut]

Saints cruising.

Strong work.

[FKAS]

Sarries coming back strong.

Fin Smith needs to stop tackling like that though.

[twitchy]

Game on. Really fun stuff.

[FKAS]

Well Saints threw that away. Going to be a tough second half for them to reset and go again as that will have knocked their confidence.

[TheNomad]

Saracens look like they’re back to being good again. An impressive reinvention

[twitchy]

What a game.

[Captainhaircut]

Ref has been dreadful all night.

[FKAS]

Ref has been dreadful all night.

All season.