Leicester Tigers 11 Northampton Saints 3 – May 2011
This may have been a low-scoring affair but it’s a classic example of a hard-fought, attritional, arm-wrestle of a match where every tackle counts.
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Toby Flood’s penalty was the only score in a first-half that saw Leicester’s Manu Tuilagi and Northampton’s Chris Ashton sin-binned for an early altercation.
Stephen Myler got Saints’ only points of the day but Flood restored Tigers’ lead and the older Tuilagi, Alesana, settled things with his try in the corner nine minutes from time, piledriving through Bruce Reihana.
The game bore witness to tremendous defensive efforts from both sides, but it was Leicester who edged through to a seventh successive Aviva Premiership Rugby final.