Premiership

Collins double keeps Saints in the running

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The Rugby Paper Team
23 April 2023

By ROSS HEPPENSTALL

Newcastle........................... 5pts
Tries: Radwan 4

Northampton................... 66pts
Tries: Mitchell 8, 57, Collins 15, 29; Augustus 40, Hill 44, Smith 53, Graham 59, Freeman 65, Ribbans 75
Conversions: Smith 8, 17, 31, 41, 46, 54, 57, 77
Tom Collins’ deadly first-half double kept Northampton’s play-off challenge alive as they destroyed Newcastle with a 10-try blitz.
The 28-year-old winger is leaving Franklin’s Gardens at the end of the campaign but helped Saints march to a thumping bonus-point win in their final regular-season game.
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