Author: an old grey dog
Photographer and science geek. Rugby fan (Sale Sharks).
View from the armchair: Sale 15 Edinburgh 16
It’s like déjà vu all over again. A one-word summary of this game might simply be: “frustrating”.
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Vue du fauteuil: Toulon 26 Sale 14
Did anyone (seriously) expect a win away to Toulon? Even without the internal upheavals of this week, it was always going to need a Herculean effort to get 4 or 5 points from this game.
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Flashes
Neumann’s and Ashton’s flashes, Northwich, Cheshire, UK
View from the armchair: London Irish 13 Sale 21
A win’s a win, for a’ that, and let’s not forget that this was a win. Scrappy, yes. Ugly at times, certainly. But after three games, two of them away, Sale are still 4th in the table, with two wins and a narrow, last-minute loss.
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View from the armchair: Newcastle 15 Sale 13
Exciting, engrossing, enthralling, epic. These are just some of the words that absolutely nobody used to describe this game.
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View from the armchair: Sale 32 Saints 23
TOO. MANY. PENALTIES. Get a grip, guys, this is getting ridiculous.
Name any referee and every supporter of every team will swear blind that said ref has got it in for their team. It’s an immutable law of the universe — by comparison, the 2nd law of thermodynamics is a mere suggestion. So it was that Ian Tempest was the villain who penalised Sale 17 times from about midway through the first half until the end of the game (for context, Saints gave up about three penalties in that time).
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Trees
Trans-Pennine Trail, Cheshire
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Autumn evening
Trans-Pennine Way, Cheshire
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