{"id":813292,"date":"2026-10-25T09:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T09:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813292\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T09:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T09:36:12","slug":"henry-pollock-scuffles-with-england-teammates-as-leicester-beat-northampton-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813292\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Pollock scuffles with England teammates as Leicester beat Northampton Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Published: 16 hours ago | 24 October 2026 13:05 EDT <\/p>\n

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Henry Pollock and Ollie Chessum clash . \"Google <\/a> <\/p>\n

Leicester<\/a> Tigers\u2019 dominant second-half performance earned them an impressive 28-7 victory over East Midlands rivals Northampton<\/a> Saints.<\/p>\n

The visitors, and Gallagher PREM champions, actually led at half-time at a soaking Mattioli Woods Welford Road, but they had no answer as the Tigers turned on the power to score four tries following the restart.<\/p>\n

It meant Leicester could enjoy a third win in four league games, as well as getting one over Saints on their own turf for a fourth season running, as they jumped up to second in the table.<\/p>\n

The wet and windy conditions quickly played a part as Northampton grabbed the game\u2019s opening try after only seven minutes.<\/p>\n

With advantage being played, Fin Smith chipped towards the Leicester try line and, after Billy Searle\u2019s fumble, James Pater pounced to score, with Smith adding the conversion.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all HEATING up as we reach half-time in the East Midlands derby \ud83d\ude24\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n

Henry Pollock is right in the thick of things \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n

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A succession of penalties conceded by Saints gave Leicester a chance to hit back quickly, but their captain Ollie Chessum knocked on close to the line as the visitors\u2019 defence held firm.<\/p>\n

But the Tigers were on the board after 19 minutes when Freddie Steward blasted a superbly struck penalty between the uprights from just inside the Northampton half.<\/p>\n

It brought the hosts back within four points, and it took some strong defence deep into their territory to keep it that way, as a spell of pressure was ended by Tommy Freeman knocking on under the posts.<\/p>\n

It remained 7-3 to Saints at half-time, but a fracas down the touchline as the players made their way towards the tunnel indicated a fiery second half was on the way.<\/p>\n

The home crowd was brought to its feet four minutes after the restart when a driving maul rumbled its way over with Jamie Blamire grounding the ball, although Searle\u2019s missed conversion meant Leicester\u2019s lead was just one point.<\/p>\n

But their dominant start to the half brought a second try when the ball was worked out to the left to Gabriel Hamer-Webb whose pass led to Cameron Henderson scoring in the corner. Searle\u2019s conversion again slid wide.<\/p>\n

The Tigers were more than a score clear, though, when Finn Carnduff crashed over from close range in the 57th minute after a beleaguered Saints defence had illegally collapsed a maul.<\/p>\n

Having not converted any of his side\u2019s three tries to that point, Searle extended the hosts\u2019 lead further with a penalty from in front of the posts.<\/p>\n

Northampton\u2019s afternoon continued to disintegrate when they had Tom Lockett sin-binned for making head-on-head contact with Solomone Kata with 10 minutes left.<\/p>\n

And the Tigers rubbed their noses in it by claiming a bonus point not long after when Searle\u2019s long pass found Steward and the England<\/a> full-back glided in under the posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 16 hours ago | 24 October 2026 13:05 EDT mens gallagher-premiership Henry Pollock and Ollie Chessum clash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-813292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}