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All Saints honoured with historical numbers

Northampton Saints are recognising the contribution of current and former Saints by awarding numbers to every player to have donned the jersey.  

Going back to the beginning of Saints’ records in 1895 (records previous to this were destroyed by fire), every player to have ever turned out for Saints has been given a number to denote their place in the history of the Club.

Each Saint’s number is given chronologically depending on when they made their full senior debut for the Club, adding them to the long list of men to have pulled on the famous Black, Green and Gold jersey. Though prior to digitalised records in 1998, players are given a number alphabetically within the year they made their debut. 

ET Abell begins the list of almost 2,000 Saints and this weekend James Haskell and Andy Symons will become Saints #1991 & #1992 respectively as they made their debuts in Black, Green and Gold.

Perhaps the most famous Saint, winger Edgar Mobbs carries #281, the Club’s leading try scorer Teddy Cook is Saint #350, record appearance holder Ron Jacobs holds #1121 and Saints record points scorer Paul Grayson appears on the list at #1658.

Members of the current Saints squad were presented with their numbers earlier this week and Club co-captain Dylan Hartley said that to have this direct, personal link to the history of the Club was a huge honour. 

“We have a proud history here at Saints and our numbers are a literal reminder of that,” Hartley commented. 

“The lads were touched to find out their number and to see the chronological place they occupy in the history of Northampton Saints alongside the likes of  Edgar Mobbs and Freddie Blakiston.”

NUMBER

SURNAME

INITIAL

FIRST NAME

APPS

DEBUT DATE

#1808

Hartley

DM

Dylan

243

03/09/2005

#1845

Gray

J

Joe

20

01/09/2007

#1853

Lawes

CL

Courtney

208

20/10/2007

#1882

Waller

AM

Alex

232

05/11/2009

#1890

Wood

TA

Tom

166

05/09/2010

#1906

Craig

JR

James

69

04/09/2011

#1908

Haywood

MD

Mikey

192

04/09/2011

#1917

Harrison

T

Teimana

105

24/03/2012

#1918

Burrell

L

Luther

140

01/09/2012

#1919

Pisi

K

Ken

133

01/09/2012

#1927

Collins

TP

Tom

51

26/01/2013

#1950

Mallinder

H

Harry

65

01/11/2014

#1952

Hutchinson

R

Rory

20

31/01/2015

#1953

Marshall

RC

Reece

24

31/01/2015

#1956

Tuala

A

Ahsee

73

07/02/2015

#1958

Gibson

J

Jamie

86

16/10/2015

#1959

Hill

P

Paul

70

16/10/2015

#1968

Ratuniyarawa

A

Api

42

22/10/2016

#1969

Tuitavake

N

Nafi

30

22/10/2016

#1971

Fish

JD

James

8

06/11/2016

#1972

Ludlam

L

Lewis

17

06/11/2016

#1973

Moon

M

Alex

4

06/11/2016

#1974

Onojaife

D

Devante

1

06/11/2016

#1976

Ribbans

D

David

25

28/01/2017

#1977

Eadie

M

Mitch

13

02/09/2017

#1978

Grayson

J

James

12

02/09/2017

#1979

Mitchell

A

Alex

10

02/09/2017

#1981

Reinach

JM

Cobus

33

09/09/2017

#1982

Ford-Robinson

J

Jamal

23

30/09/2017

#1983

Van Wyk

F

Francois

25

30/09/2017

#1984

Francis

P

Piers

22

07/10/2017

#1985

Emery

T

Tom

1

04/11/2017

#1986

Furbank

G

George

1

04/11/2017

#1987

Brüssow

HW

Heinrich

5

02/02/2018

#1988

Painter

E

Ehren

4

07/04/2018

#1989

Franks

B

Ben

1

01/09/2018

#1990

Biggar

DR

Dan

1

01/09/2018

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