Northampton Saints
NORTHAMPTON, ENGLAND - MAY 16: Tom Wood of Northampton Saints poses on May 16, 2013 at Franklin's Gardens in Northampton, England.
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They play to a consistently high standard every week and a team that is less consistent over the course of the season can rise above them on the one-off occasion ... Northampton showed at Saracens what they are capable of, but I expect Leicester to win: they will be desperate to avoid a hat-trick of losses, it is a derby and their six Lions are in scintillating form.
It is a massive disappointment ... We gave ourselves a mountain to climb at half-time. Northampton put us under a lot of pressure in the first half and we made a lot mistakes. They were extremely physical and their defence was outstanding. We showed in patches in the second half what we were capable of but the first half was very un-Saracens like.
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Tigers feed on final heartache
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Sarries season was a 'massive anticlimax', admits Fraser
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