Starting Lineup
Subs
Opposition Lineup
15
Matt Worley
14
Alfie Garside
13
Lucas Titherington
12
Michael Le Bourgeois
11
Dean Adamson
10
Will Maisey
9
James Lennon
1
Joey Conway
2
Nathan Langdon
3
Oisin Heffernan
4
Rory Ward
5
Alex Woolford
6
Luke Frost
7
Jac Arthur
8
Cameron King
Subs
16
Tommy Herman
17
Jamie Jack
18
Bryan O'Connor
19
Shay Kerry
20
Archie Benson
21
Fred Tuilagi
22
Jake Garside
23
Will Glister
24
Joel Matavesi
25
Jamie Elliott
26
Toby Cousins
27
Louis James
Full Time
Northampton Saints
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Bedford Blues
17
No conversion from Maisey and that brings about the full time whistle.
TRY BEDFORD.
It's L James again for Blues as their pressure in Saints' 22 pays off out wide.
Ainsworth-Cave and Perkins enter play, with Scott-young and Pollock leaving the field.
Logan replaces Brown for Saints.
Va'enuku replaces Hutchinson as we restart.
Try Bedford
After sustained pressure in Saints' 22, it's L James who dives on loose ball over the tryline for Blues' second.
C Langdon and McParland replace Wright and James as we restart.
TRY HAFFAR!!
The loosehead prop taps the resulting penalty and barges his way over for the the score!
It's Tuilagi who's shown a yellow card as Bedford are found offside close to their own tryline.
Savala converts his own score too!
TRY SAVALA!
Saints' scrum gives the men in Black, Green and Gold the platform the push from close range and it's the replacement fly-half who dives through a gap for the score!
A raft of changes at half-time for Saints: Haffar, Davison, Prowse, Graham, Savala, Witheat, Thame and Seabrook all enter play. West, Green, Hunter-Hill, Kemeny, F Smith, Dingwall, Sleightholme and Furbank all make way.
40
WE'RE BACK UNDERWAY!
Savala gets us restarted here at the Gardens!
And that's half-time here at cinch Stadium at Franklin's Gardens.
F Smith ads the extras too!
TRY DINGWALL!
Kemeny speeds down the right before the ball comes back the other way for Dingwall to stretch over the line!
TRY F SMITH!
Ramm almost breaks through to put Saints on the front foot and it's Sleightholme who darts down the left wing before dropping the ball on his foot and setting up Smith for the score!
Maisey adds the conversion too.
TRY BEDFORD
It's Saints hooker N Langdon who's over for our guests' first score after the maul rumbles close.
F Smith...
... adds the conversion too!
TRY FURBANK!!
It's the captain again as Saints build the phases in Blues' 22 and the fullback manages to slip through a gap!
TRY FURBANK!
It's the skipper who gets the first score as F Smith sends a chip over the top over the tryline for Furbank to chase!
HERE WE GO!
After laying wreaths on the War Memorial within the stadium to honour Saints legend, World Rugby Hall-of-Fame inductee, and World War One hero, Edgar Mobbs – we're underway here at cinch Stadium at Franklin's Gardens!