The Hendy hat-trick came not long after, when Chick broke down the blindside and gave the ball back to his winger to cross over.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was Saints\u2019 turn to lose a man to the sin bin, with Ed Prowse the man who was shown a yellow card for his side\u2019s collective penalty concessions. Bristol, like Saints had in the first half, made the most of their extra man quickly, sending Luka Ivanishvili over.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The rest of Prowse\u2019s sin-bin period remained largely uneventful, at least by this game\u2019s standards; however, Bristol eventually added another with ten minutes left on the clock when Noah Heward finished a neat solo score under the posts.<\/p>\n
A third yellow card of the match was to be brandished from Pearce\u2019s pocket in the 75th minute, this time for Matias Moroni for a scuffle he started with Pollock. As with the two previous Bristol cards, a score came soon after. A returning Tom Pearson almost broke through Bristol\u2019s line and tipped the ball onto a charging Graham, who barrelled his way forwards before stretching over the whitewash.<\/p>\n
Saints finished with a flourish and Hendy made it four to break Saints\u2019 points scoring record in the PREM, this time the winger was sent through under the posts when quick hands from Northampton created a space big enough for the winger to spin into.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That result sealed Saints\u2019 highest ever points haul in the league and booked them a spot in the PREM play-offs with two matches to spare, with a home class against Gloucester Rugby next on the agenda in two week\u2019s time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Line-ups<\/strong><\/p>\n Saints:<\/strong> 15 George Furbank (c), 14 Tommy Freeman, 13 Tom Litchfield, 12 Rory Hutchinson, 11 George Hendy, 10 Fin Smith, 9 Archie McParland, 1 Emmanuel Iyogun, 2 Robbie Smith, 3 Elliot Millar Mills, 4 Alex Coles, 5 Ed Prowse, 6 Josh Kemeny, 7 Henry Pollock, 8 Callum Chick.\u00a0 Bristol:<\/strong> 15 Rich Lane, 14 Louis Rees-Zammit, 13 Benhard Janse van Rensburg, 12 James Williams, 11 Kalaveti Ravouvou, 10 Tom Jordan, 9 Harry Randall; 1 Ellis Genge, 2 Harry Thacker, 3 George Kloska, 4 James Dun, 5 Joe Batley, 6 Joe Owen, 7 Fitz Harding (c), 8 Santiago Grondona.
Replacements: 16 Henry Walker, 17 Danilo Fischetti, 18 Luke Green, 19 JJ Van Der Mescht, 20 Tom Pearson, 21 Sam Graham, 22 Alex Mitchell, 23 Fraser Dingwall.<\/p>\n
Replacements: 16 Tomas Gwilliam, 17 Jake Woolmore, 18 Max Lahiff, 19 George Taylor, 20 Luka Ivanishvili, 21 Kieran Marmion, 22 Matias Moroni, 23 Noah Heward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hendy hat-trick came not long after, when Chick broke down the blindside and gave the ball back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":962793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-962792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116581769262586676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}