Northampton Saints’ Tommy Freeman instructed BBC Radio Northampton:
“Good begin and many factors on the board which good to see however I believe there’s masses extra in us which is what we stated at half-time, however total a very good outcome.
“Our set piece we have to tighten up a bit on that first part. Defensively we had been caught a bit tight, however credit score to Newcastle for stressing us in these areas however we wish to see higher motion.
“It’s all the time a problem and going back-to-back [titles] isn’t accomplished by many groups. There’s a cause for that however we will likely be trying to take every week because it comes and hold placing our DNA on the pitch.”
Newcastle head coach Dan McFarland instructed BBC Radio Newcastle:
“We put lots of great things on the market however we had been examined right now by a very, actually good staff. We all know the place we stand now and the place we have started working. We now have a protracted jounrey forward of us and that was step one.
“It was a incredible rating once we had a size of the sector try to that was actually us and we additionally had lots of defensive units the place we had confirmed actually good scramble and stopped them from scoring.
“However the recreation is up and down. We had that yellow card after which we had three tries which had been scored throughout that yellow, and the strive simply earlier than half-time was an actual killer.
“Possibly we left a few tries on the market however there’s a lot in that that we are going to take away and see as an actual optimistic.”
Northampton: Pater, Freeman, Hutchinson, Dingwall, Hendy, F Smith, McParland, Iyogun, Langdon, Kundiona, Coles, Prowse, Kemeny, Pollock, Chick
Replacements: R Smith, Fischetti, Neculai, Lockett, Taylor, Mitchell, Belleau, Sleightholme.
Newcastle: Obatoyinbo, Wade, Hearle, Harris, Kok, Connon, Elliott, Rakete-Stones, McGuigan, Millar Mills, Usher, Jordan, Hicks, Christie, Graham.
Replacements: Fletcher, West, Harper, Molina, Leatherbarrow, Cruz, Henry, Sotutu.
Sin bin: Obatoyinbo (14), Rakete-Stones (43)
Referee: Anthony Woodthorpe.