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On the evidence of this eight-try annihilation Saracens will take a serious amount of stopping even when they come up against opposition breathing far more fire and brimstone than the pallid Saints could muster here. Quick, slick, direct, clever: Saracens ticked every available box and more. Even the supposed head-to-head contest between the incumbent England captain, Dylan Hartley, and the starting Lions hooker, Jamie George, was relegated to an irrelevant sideshow amid the onrushing one-way traffic, George ambling off after 51 minutes with his side already 36-6 ahead. The watching England coach, Eddie Jones, would have admired the defensive workload of Courtney Lawes but this Authentic Laken Tomlinson Jersey was otherwise not a pleasant night to be wearing green, black and yellow. “We thought we’d learned our lessons but clearly we haven’t,” said the Saints director of rugby, Jim Mallinder. “Sometimes you just don’t see these things coming. 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The game was only 11 minutes old when the visitors went through 13 ominously slick phases before Williams cut a nice angle past North and Cobus Reinach to score with some ease. A driven lineout soon produced a second try for Brad Barritt and a sparsely attended Sunday matins service would have produced more noise than the Franklin’s Gardens congregation. But the Saints’ woe was only just starting. A rare incursion into their opponents’ 22 by North ended with the Welsh winger prostrate on the turf after being tackled and dispossessed by Barritt. After lengthy treatment North resumed, only to collapse in a heap shortly afterwards with no one anywhere near him. He was helped gingerly away and looks a major doubt http://www.raidersnflofficialonline.com/Nike-Al-Davis-Jersey.html for Wales’s autumn Tests. Only when Farrell upended Ben Foden, then caught an aggrieved Teimana Harrison with a raised forearm did Saracens find themselves remotely under pressure. Even then the French referee, Pascal Gaüzère, opted merely for a stern word and a penalty kicked by Stephen Myler. Otherwise it was almost embarrassingly one-sided, Williams cutting inside to collect his second try after a nice flick on from Marcelo Bosch, and Calum Clark taking advantage of the sin-binning of David Ribbans to secure a try bonus point from close range on the stroke of half-time. The unsportsmanlike booing as Farrell lined up his attempted conversion offered a pretty clear indication of the prevailing local mood. In truth, though, their team was being brutally sliced and diced by opponents sending a serious message to those hoping to deprive them Authentic Laken Tomlinson Jersey of a hat-trick http://www.authenticpiratesstore.com/Authentic-Joaquin-Benoit-Jersey of European titles. There was another compelling illustration less than two minutes into the second half. 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