All kinds of scoring records were spectacularly broken by a rampant Northampton on a lovely clear evening in the East Midlands. Never before have the Saints scored more points in a top-flight fixture and never have Bristol endured such a grisly 80 minutes. To say the Bears finished a horribly distant second is to put it politely.
By the time the carnage finally concluded the home side had scored 14 tries with George Hendy bagging four of them and Archie McParland and Rory Hutchinson collecting two apiece. Saints scored no fewer than 61 points in the first half alone, assisted by a visiting defence who were chasing green, black and gold shadows from a very early stage.
