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Northampton and England winger Chris Ashton last night paid reverence to his late father after being declared Guinness Premiership player of the season.
Ashtons father, Kevin, lost his conflict opposite cancer in the shutting weeks of the Premiership deteriorate and his wake was hold on Monday.
But the 23-year-old was dynamic to honour his mental recall by pciking up the prestigious endowment in London last night.
Ashton, who additionally picked up the endowment for the Premierships heading try-scorer, said: My Dad upheld afar about dual weeks ago.
It was his wake yesterday and he helped me get to where I am in rugby and I would usually similar to to contend appreciate you.
It has been a big year for me. It took me a whilst to get the cling to of this game, entrance over from rugby league, and I think I am eventually removing the cling to of it.
Ashton scored sixteen tries in twenty matches for Saints this season, together with hat-tricks opposite Gloucester and Newcastle, and won his initial England top as a result.
His transport of tries is the top sum in a singular deteriorate for over a decade and is second usually to Dominic Chapman, who scored seventeen for Richmond in the 1997/98 season.
Ashtons Northampton team-mate Soane Tonga"uiha accomplished in second place.
The absolute Tongan column participated in all twenty-three of Saints" Premiership matches, scoring 3 tries and channel for an additional in the LV= Cup last at Sixways.
Saracens captain Ernst Joubert accomplished in third place whilst Saracens harlot Schalk Brits and Northampton behind row Phil Dowson were additionally nominated.
Leicester scrum-half Ben Youngs was declared as the Land Rover Discovery of the Season, violence Saracens" Andy Saull in to second place.
Andy Key of Leeds pipped Northamptons Jim Mallinder to the QBE executive of rugby of the deteriorate award.
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