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Last-gasp Falcons beat Saints, Sale see off Worcester
By Peter Thompson
Newcastle Falcons ended a four-match Premiership losing streak with a dramatic 24-22 victory at Northampton Saints and Sale Sharks edged out struggling Worcester Warriors on Friday.
Northampton had also lost four in a row in the top flight before Newcastle made the journey south to Franklin's Gardens, but looked set to stop the rot until a dramatic finale.
The Saints were clinging on at the death and were unable to stop Nili Latu from crashing over for a try which Sonatane Takulua converted to snatch victory.
Northampton led 22-17 with 10 minutes remaining following tries from England captain Dylan Hartley and Harry Mallinder as well as a penalty try.
Latu and Takulua came to Newcastle's rescue, though, after Sinoti Sinoti and Josh Matavesi had gone over in the first half of a tense encounter which saw Rob Horne have a try ruled out only 13 seconds in when Ben Foden was deemed to have knocked on.
Sale claimed their first away win since October 2016, beating Worcester 18-14 despite Byron McGuigan's red card 15 minutes from time.
McGuigan was given his marching orders for a second yellow card offence, but Mark Jennings crashed over five minutes later.
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What a load of baloney JW. At least try, man. Still sore that the ABs could not score as many tries v England as Aussie and SA maybe?
Look through the games v Ireland, France and the two NZ tour losses, and there is not one try scored in the same way as I'm describing here! Not one.
The system being run by El Abd is not the one that implemented by Jones. They are like chalk and cheese.
It's not the same at all but I recognize you cannot see it - and that's okay.
Go to commentsWell he said he's rarely used there, hence the joke about how many games we have to watch before we actually see him getting used there :p
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