Author: an old grey dog

Photographer and science geek. Rugby fan (Sale Sharks).
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View from the armchair: Wasps 11 Sale 20

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Crunch time. One… indifferent… game on return and one with insufficient improvement against the best team in the league threatened to leave Sale’s playoff ambitions if not in tatters, then seriously dented. Defeat at Wasps may not have been the final nail, but it would make it exponentially more difficult to regain lost ground.

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View from the armchair: Sale 22 Exeter 32

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I’ve tried telling myself that better teams have lost and will continue to lose to Exeter, but it doesn’t help. Even the fact that Sale played so much better than last week doesn’t help. Played better, got less out of it; not a comfort. The simple truth is that, in two games, we’ve lost more ground on Exeter than I think it’s possible to make up. From 5 points behind to 14 points behind: that’s a big gap.

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View from the armchair: Harlequins 16 Sale Sharks 10

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Getting too excited about something carries its own danger: the thing may not live up to the hype, and the feeling of deflation is even more pronounced than than would otherwise be the case. It wasn’t actually Sale losing that got me down, although I felt this was probably their best chance to do one on Quins at The Stoop in ages. No, what left me feeling flatter than a week-old pint was the sheer, turgid dreadfulness of the whole thing.

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