News: SAINTS LOOK TO MARCH ON


By ERC
April 4 2011

It is Heineken Cup sudden death time with four French and two clubs from each of England and Ireland left in the hunt for the title of the 16thchampions of Europe.Five of the last eight – defending champions Toulouse, Leicester Tigers, Leinster, Northampton Saints and Ulster Rugby – already have their names etched onto the silverware with the French trio of Biarritz Olympique, Perpignan and tournament debutants Toulon bidding to join them.

SAINTS LOOK TO MARCH ON


 The route to the final at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday, 21 May, is clearly mapped out for all the clubs with either Leinster or Leicester Tigers from the Dublin quarter-final and either Northampton Saints or Ulster Rugby from the Milton Keyes encounter enjoying home advantage in the semi-finals three weeks later.
The Saints are the only one of the quarter-finalists to take an unbeaten record through from the Pool stages and Director of Rugby Jim Mallinder declared: “We are going into the game in a positive frame of mind.

“We’ve played reasonably well over the past few weeks, got some good results home and away and everyone in the squad has put their hand up for selection. We’re certainly going to have a tough time choosing the team for this weekend’s game.

“But of course there are things to work on and we’ll be looking to improve in all areas ahead of what is a challenging game against Ulster this Sunday.
 

“Getting good results in the Premiership is one thing, but the Heineken Cup is a massive step up in intensity and physicality, especially when you get to the knock-out stages.

“We found that out last season and hopefully we can learn from that experience this year. We are a young team that is still developing and this weekend’s game is a good yardstick for us.

“Ulster have been on a good run of form recently and are going really well in the Magners League. They have shown repeatedly that they know how to win tight games, not just in the Magners League but in the Heineken Cup as well, especially with their win at Bath.

“Ulster have a pair of quality half-backs in Ruan Pienaar and Ian Humphreys, and they have excellent players throughout their squad. We will certainly have a tough job on our hands if we are to get a positive result on Sunday. We will need to keep our shape in defence, keep our discipline and take our opportunities in attack.

“We’re looking forward to the occasion, which will be massive for the club, and especially our supporters. The Heineken Cup quarter-final at Thomond Park last season showed the value of having a large and vocal crowd behind you and we want to make the home advantage count.

“Ideally Sunday’s game would have been at Franklin’s Gardens, but the move to stadium:mk has given the chance for twice as many Saints supporters to get in to see the game and we’re looking forward to seeing and hearing them in the stands." 

 

 

Issued by Mark Jones
 

News SAINTS LOOK TO MARCH ON
Posted by: ComeOnYouSaints.com (IP Logged)
Date: 04/04/2011 21:55

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Date: 05/04/2011 07:05

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I'm sorry this is off subject but can anyone please PM me and tell me why I get this message when I am signed in. It only happens when the post is started by comeonyousaints.com

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Posted by: St Marlowe (IP Logged)
Date: 05/04/2011 07:09

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The Clue is in the 1st part Eddie
It is a standard message generated when an article is posted to encourage people to sign in.
We have a tradition of allowing anyone to post whether registered or not. signing in protects us from trolls but cuts down our target community.

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Re: News SAINTS LOOK TO MARCH ON
Posted by: Edward (IP Logged)
Date: 05/04/2011 07:43

Ok thank you. I'm obviously being a little dense because I still can't see where to read the article. I will have a look at lunch time. Thanks again.

Re: News SAINTS LOOK TO MARCH ON
Posted by: Saint Tim (IP Logged)
Date: 05/04/2011 08:28

Do you not see the article above the box you have mentioned.

This was an improvement made such that each story we post now automatically has a thread added to it for responses so people can post what they think of the article.

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Re: News SAINTS LOOK TO MARCH ON
Posted by: Clegthorpe (IP Logged)
Date: 05/04/2011 08:58

St Tim,

If you scroll through the messages using the next/previous links you don't see the article. If you go straight into the message from the message list you do.

Re: News SAINTS LOOK TO MARCH ON
Posted by: St Marlowe (IP Logged)
Date: 05/04/2011 09:16

Ahh I see what you mean - it looks like a bug - Ill report it to SN

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Re: News SAINTS LOOK TO MARCH ON
Posted by: Saint Tim (IP Logged)
Date: 05/04/2011 10:08

Good pick - shows I never do it that way.

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Re: News SAINTS LOOK TO MARCH ON
Posted by: Edward (IP Logged)
Date: 05/04/2011 12:46

I never click on previous or next to go through the stories. It seems that I can only see the full story when I go into the full message board rather than just the latest stories (which is what I normally do and is why I can never see the stories).

Re: News SAINTS LOOK TO MARCH ON
Posted by: Saint Tim (IP Logged)
Date: 05/04/2011 12:54

Sounds like another element of the same bug there Eddie.

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Re: News SAINTS LOOK TO MARCH ON
Posted by: Edward (IP Logged)
Date: 05/04/2011 12:58

Yes it does.

Anyway, now I can see it, I can tell you that it's a good article. I like it. Sunday is going to be an interesting game.

Re: News SAINTS LOOK TO MARCH ON
Posted by: Saintly Pursuit (IP Logged)
Date: 05/04/2011 18:47

Just in case your are testing and can't replicate it....

Once you have used the "proper" link to see the article then even when using the previous or back buttons it will work fine. It only seems to be when initially going to the article via the previous or next buttons does the problem occur.

I seem to think that the body of the article is actually returned to the browser but the css is not showing it but I could be wrong.

Re: News SAINTS LOOK TO MARCH ON
Posted by: Saint Tim (IP Logged)
Date: 05/04/2011 22:36

Have added this info to the bug as reported by David to Sportnetwork earlier. Thanks

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