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Saracens Match Up Against Northampton For 2nd Premiership Title

Northampton Saints Will Be Hoping To Win Its First Premiership Title
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The English Rugby top flight comes to a close this weekend with a cracking game between Saracens RFC and Northampton Saints matching each other's physical strength and endurance at the Twickenham Stadium.

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Saracens who lost the Heineken Cup last week to Toulon RFC of France in a match that ended 23-6 in favour of the French team;Johnny Wilkinson the hero of England's triumph at the 2007 Rugby World Cup was the star of the team, are looking to win their second Aviva title.

The two England heavyweights will light up the Twickenham stadium, venue of the final tomorrow.

These two clubs emerged top of the premiership log against other ten clubs in an oval rugging 135 games to decide who the finalists for every season in the English topflight will be. After 22 rounds of tackles, mauls, scrums and rocks, the team with the highest Tries, Penalty goals and Conversion points will have its name engrafted on the trophy this Saturday and it can only be one of 2014 Heineken Cup runner-up and one time Aviva Premiership champion Saracens or never before champion and last year's Aviva Final runner-up Northampton Saints.

Saracens They have been the in-form Premiership side this season and will want to finish the season with some silverware after the lose to Toulon, but they will have their work cut out from the blast of the referee's whistle, pushing and intercepting play from their half to prevent a Saints break through the front-line on Saturday against a side who will be full of confidence after they saw off Bath Rugby last weekend to take the Amlin Challenge Cup.

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Inevitably with the finals, individual construction and strong team combination dominate the build-up from the start to finish. And For Saracens, captain Steve Borthwick will be playing his final game in a remarkable 16-year career. He has been so key to Saracen's recent renaissance and revolution after joining the club in 2008. He will hope to add his second Premiership title after helping them to first in 2011.

The finalists are determined through a play-off system where the top four teams on the table go head-on against each other ina  super four format. The teams who win their both games or with the highest points qualify for the final;  Northampton Saints defeated Leicester Tigers while Saracens beat former champions Harlequins in the semi finals respectively. Though the play-off is the working and accepted system, it still divides opinion but it does guarantee a fantastic end to the season.

Premiership finals by the records have barely disappointed, Twickenham is sold out and the name of Leicester Tigers will be replaced with either of Saracens or Northampton Saints come 5pm on Saturday.

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