Northampton Saints
News: GP Playoff Semi-Final Photos
By Snappers
May 17 2010
A hard and ultimately fruitless day at the office against Saracens. A match that could have gone either way is recorded by our photographers.
SMURF
Gutted
that the season ended like that, would have been nice to say farewell
at twickenham to Nacho, Kruger, Hopley, Besty, Cannon, Joe & Scott
Gray, Hopley, Dickens, Darren Morris, John Brake, Everitt and Jon
Vickers.
Here's the photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfomatic/tags/16may2010/
And some favourites - Foden gets caught:
A Dickson box
kick almost gets charged down:
My man of the
match:
Tiny scores...
Bye bye Nacho:
The
final whistle - gutted:
Only three
months to wait till the season starts again!
SHENDY
A lovely day, another cracking game of rugby, and another
disappointing result.
Somehow I managed to land tickets in the front row of the South Stand,
with Mrs Hat just in front for the second half, so my view was pretty
good.
I thought Saracens were really good value for the win, and can’t believe
how different a team they have been in the last few weeks. But, will
they be able to continue playing like that without Jackson? Brits was a
real handful, side-stepping away from the first up tackles every time,
and they seemed to be just evading the usually so solid defence.
In the end, as I said to saintsdave on the way out, I didn’t want to go
to Twickenham anyway as I’ve spent too much on rugby this season anyway.
His reply is unprintable on a family website.
Here’s my selection – quite a few of them as I took a lot of photos.
I spent some time before match trying to photograph Geraghty kicking the
ball – it’s really hard to get the timing right!
Tiny showing just how flexible he is
If the opposition are going to score and celebrate, then it’s jolly
decent of them to do it in front of me.
Ashton about to get double-tackled
Best on the rampage
Tiny doing what Tiny does
And I’ll give the last one to a Sarries fan, as it was their day.
To wrap up, a great season – strange isn’t it how we can be disappointed
with a Cup win, an HEC QF and a playoff SF!
Enjoy the summer, and I’ll see you all next season.
CLAIRE J
Evening everybody,
24 hours have passed and I am already looking forward to next season.
Yesterday, despite the result was an excellent match to shoot. I am not going into the whys and wherefores - I'd just like to say thanks you to all the players and coaches for their efforts this season. It's
been an absolute privilege to take photos of this marvellous team and I will miss all the players leaving.
Have an excellent summer everybody, my favourite photos from yesterday are below:
Roger Wilson's amazing break
Ben Foden claims the ball
Chris Ashton
Tiny on the charge - I love the coaches in the background
An emotional farewell to Nacho
The rest of the photos can be found here:
http://clairej.smugmug.com/Rugby-Union-Season-2009-10/SaintsvsSaracens
16052010/12201250_a4TWg#868911541_STACs
Have a good summer everybody:)
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Photos from Northampton Saints vs Saracens, 16th May 2010
Including some of my favourites:
Sadly, we were discussing the slope, as measured by Mrs Hat by counting the steps.
Bless...
At the north end of the ground, there are 29 steps from the bottom of the stand to the top
At the south end of the ground, it's 34 steps.
ClaireJ
RedHatPhoto.com review of 2015 photos here...
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Ah goody, a whole new discussion group for the summer .I have my theodolite and tape measure handy.Now where are my wellies and notebook!!!!!!!!!!!!
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