Mallinder unhappy over disallowed try

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Prop Soane Tonga'uiha wriggled over with less than two minutes to go but the attempt was eventually ruled-out because of a knock-on and Saracens survived a frantic finale.

"I thought it was a try and that Soane got the ball down just for an instant," said Mallinder. "It was long enough to get over the line but it was then pulled away."

He added: "I've got over the decision now - I've hit the wall and done all that sort of business.

"It was a massive decision but you have to be philosophical. It's happened, we've lost and we have one point.

"It's pointless me shouting. It was a very tough call for the video referee."

Saracens director of rugby Brendan Venter felt the right call was made and instead turned his attention towards the 68th minute sin-binning of Schalk Brits.

Brits was shown a yellow card when Saints scrum-half Lee Dickson passed the ball straight at him then complained the South African hooker had taken too long to return to an onside position.

"I looked at the replay and said it's not a try boys, prepare for the scrum," said Venter. "The yellow card came with 15 minutes to go and in my opinion that's not the way rugby is played.

"A scrum-half can't deliberately throw the ball into Schalk, put his hands in the air and say he was guilty of lazy running. That wasn't lazy running, we don't practice or talk about that. I looked at the incident after the match."