Saracens 40 Newcastle Falcons 3: match report Premiership under the coaching of Dean Richards, faded badly after a bright start and were left to rue two missed penalties from former Scotland fly-half Phil Godman when Saracens appeared most vulnerable. Saracens were down to 14 men when Matt Stevens was sin-binned for taking out Carlo Del Fava in a line-out but Godman's second miss, when Newcastle's opted to kick for goal rather than the corner, relieved the pressure. Instead Saracens made pressure count at the other end when centre Chris Wyles made the initial break and Hodgson picked a huge gap in Newcastle's defence with a clever dummy. Hodgson extended the lead with three consecutive penalties either side of half time and a flash of brilliance from David Strettle snuffed out Newcastle's challenge. Strettle clawed down Alex Goode's grubber kick in his left hand and managed to avoid stepping into touches even though he had only inches to work in. Hooker Jamie George was then driven over from a line-out in what proved to be his last contribution before he was substituted and Goode secured the bonus point 11 minutes from time after Hodgson spotted the gap. Strettle completed the rout when he latched onto Goode's mis-pass and powered over for his second try which condemned Newcastle to their heaviest defeat of the season. "It's games like today that you learn from," Richards said. The boys came in afterwards and said for 40 minutes we competed and had we been a lot more clinical we might have been points up rather than conceding a soft try with four or five minutes to go.