Saints v Borders - Heineken Cup Preview Plus+


By Chris Gleadell
January 9 2004

In the run up to Saturdays Heineken Cup Pool Four game between Northampton Saints and The Borders of Scotland on Saturday at Franklins Gardens we bring you all the other details, facts and figures etc etc etc......... preview plus

NORTHAMPTON SAINTS v BORDERS
Heineken Cup Pool Four
Franklins Gardens
Kick-off 3:00pm

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BREAKING NEWS
Matt Dawson has failed a fitness test.
Jonny Howard to start, Sharky Robinson on bench.

Borders Team:
S Paterson; N Walker, J Stuart, K Utterson capt, C Moir; C Laidlaw,
C Cusiter; K Todd, R Ford, B Douglas, S MacLeod, C Stewart,
A Rennick, S Sititi, C Feather. Subs: S Scott,
C Dunlea, D Weir, T Walker, D Kane, G Armstrong, I Fairley.



Have you read the
Saints v Borders - The COYSDC Preview?
The Preview at the Offy
The Borders Preview
The BBC Preview
The Chronicle & Echo Preview

If You're Going To the Game

Get Directions
Watch that Northampton weather

If You're NOT Going To The Game

There May (or may not) Be Someone In
The COYSDC Chatroom
Listen to the game live from the BBC
If you are not near a computer you can also listen to
Radio Northampton (if you are in the locality) on
 FM 104.2 & 103.6

Borders Websites

The Borders Offy Site
Borders at the SRU

Other Sites

The Official Heineken Cup Site
Sky's Heineken Cup Site
The Heineken Cup at Scrum.com

The Match Reports
This is the first competitive meeting between the clubs so sorry no
archive reports this week.

Borders - The Story So Far
The Heineken Cup
Two games, two losses, the first an explosive encounter
with the groups bad boys Agen.
Read a report here.

Then a bit of a drubbing at home at the hands
of the Scarlets.
Read a report here

Current Standings - Pool Four
Position
 Team
 Points
 Games

 1

 Llanelli

 9

 2

 2

 Saints

 5

 2

 3

 Agen

 5

2

 4

 Borders

 0

 2

The Celtic League
Just two wins so far this season sees Borders lying in last but one place
in the Celtic League a point above fellow scots Glasgow.

Results
The Borders 12 Celtic Warriors 49
Edinburgh Rugby 53 The Borders 7
The Borders 22 Cardiff Blues 20
Connacht 42 The Borders 19
Glasgow Rugby 26 The Borders 25
The Borders 21 Leinster Lions 26
Llanelli Scarlets 36 The Borders 20
The Borders 22 Neath/Swansea Ospreys 16
Ulster 46 The Borders 5
The Borders 15 Gwent Dragons 38

Standings
TEAM P W D L F A TB LB DIFF PTS
Llanelli Scarlets 10 8 0 2 272 194 2 0 78 34
Ulster 10 7 0 3 311 178 4 1 133 33
Gwent Dragons 10 7 0 3 251 190 2 1 61 31
Leinster Lions 10 6 0 4 240 211 1 3 29 28
Edinburgh Rugby 10 6 0 4 232 235 3 0 -3 27
Celtic Warriors 10 5 0 5 266 216 2 4 50 26
Munster 10 5 0 5 165 166 2 3 -1 25
Connacht 10 5 0 5 209 193 2 2 16 24
Neath/Swansea Ospreys 10 4 0 6 251 287 2 1 -36 19
Cardiff Blues 10 3 0 7 191 220 1 1 -29 14
The Borders 10 2 0 8 168 352 0 2 -184 10
Glasgow Rugby 10 2 0 8 156 270 0 1 -114 9

The Celtic Cup
Borders were knocked out in the first round by Connacht



 


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