Saints march past Montpellier

Northampton powered to their second successive European Challenge Cup win over French opposition with a 51-7 win over Montpellier.

Last Updated: 18/10/08 10:06pm

Northampton Saints powered to their second successive European Challenge Cup win over French opposition with a convincing 51-7 win over Montpellier.

The Saints hammered Toulon last weekend but it was Montpellier's turn to feel the power of the Guinness Premiership outfit at Franklin Gardens.

First-half tries from Scott Gray, Joe Ansbro and a penalty try allowed the Saints to ease home with Chris Ashton gaining the bonus-point in the 56th minute.

Flanker Gray crashed over inside the opening two minutes and although Goncalo Uva responded for the visitors, Northampton extended their margin to 18-7 thanks to centre Ansbro's try.

Montpellier lost a man in either half with Julien Tomas red-carded for punching and Fabian Rofes for stamping.

The hosts capitalised through a penalty try before Ashton, Soane Tongauiha and Paul Diggen sealed victory.

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Module --> rugbyunion Controller --> match Action --> indexPage . TIME CHECK -- 0.001 seconds 6 Checking for controller: rugbyunion/controllers/MatchController 5 matched route: /(rugby-union|rugby-league)/[s:homeTeam]-vs-[s:awayTeam]/[i:matchId] 4 Added 145 routes based on config 3 Added 1 routes from ru.php 2 Found default module of: RugbyUnion 1 Starting Sky Sports MVC application

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Sat 18th October

European Rugby Challenge Cup

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European Rugby Challenge Cup

Northampton 51

Montpellier 7

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Saints march past Montpellier

Northampton powered to their second successive European Challenge Cup win over French opposition with a 51-7 win over Montpellier.

GPT Lazyload Debugger

Sat 18th October

European Rugby Challenge Cup

Results

European Rugby Challenge Cup

Northampton 51

Montpellier 7

Report

Saints march past Montpellier

Northampton powered to their second successive European Challenge Cup win over French opposition with a 51-7 win over Montpellier.

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