a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LRp4c_1oWKc/TcKbpzEu79I/AAAAAAAAFRU/wNgYACwD4WE/s1600/ben-foden-perpignan.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LRp4c_1oWKc/TcKbpzEu79I/AAAAAAAAFRU/wNgYACwD4WE/s400/ben-foden-perpignan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603212028789321682" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Northampton Saints cruised through their Heineken Cup semi final against Perpignan on Saturday with a 23-7 win, setting them up for a final showdown with Leinster in Cardiff on Saturday, May 21./spanbr /br /Visitors Perpignan failed to turn up in what was a puzzling performance from them. They were however blown away by the power of Saints, with the front row in particular asserting their dominance on more than one occasion.br /br /Saints shot off to a 20-0 lead in the first half before Perpignan attempted to claw their way back. The loss of a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2011/05/julien-candelons-reckless-tackle-on-lee.html"Julien Candelon for a reckless tackle/a didn't help, and the home side controlled matters well in the second half, hanging on for a well deserved victory and place in the final.br /br /"This is a fantastic achievement. I think we've been criticised a bit in the past for being one one-dimensional with our forward power, but I was delighted to see our all-round game," said coach Jim Mallinder.br /br /"It's all about winning - no-one remembers losing semi-finalists or losing finalists. We've done remarkably well, but we haven't won anything yet.br /br /"We will look at Leinster and make sure we are accurate against them. They are full of international-quality players with recent experience of winning competitions."br /br /The final will be at the Millennium Stadium in two weeks time. Any predictions?br /br /span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"England and Toulon's Jonny Wilkinson will be doing a Facebook session on Monday, whereby you can submit your questions/spanspan style="font-style: italic;"span style="font-weight: bold;"/span/spanspan style="font-style: italic;"span style="font-weight: bold;", and he will respond live by video. Find out more and sign up for the event by joining the Gillette Facebook page and event./spanbr //spana href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=208379069184354" target="_blank"span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"Click here to join Jonny/span/abr /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Olqz6eIUL_Y?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Olqz6eIUL_Y?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;":: Related Posts ::/spanbr /a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2011/05/julien-candelons-reckless-tackle-on-lee.html"Julien Candelon's reckless tackle on Lee Dickson/abr //span/divspan style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span05:35/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-2724830510611224005?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divpa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/84hDt3XRQHx9jJ8fgBkMh-TZpHE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/84hDt3XRQHx9jJ8fgBkMh-TZpHE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/84hDt3XRQHx9jJ8fgBkMh-TZpHE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/84hDt3XRQHx9jJ8fgBkMh-TZpHE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=QpX80rLothw:JOU0mvuOlwA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/QpX80rLothw" height="1" width="1"/ More...