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View from the armchair: Harlequins 14 Sale Sharks 36 [GP]

Posted on 08/02/2022 by an old grey dog

Commentator: “Esterhuizen is immense in the centres – a real wrecking ball”.

Manu: “Hi, my name’s Manu. Have we met?”

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View from the Birtles: Sale 3 Loughborough 32 [AP15s]

Posted on 05/02/202218/02/2022 by an old grey dog

Sale still struggle to live up to the potential of their players. They don’t yet have the easy cohesiveness of the more experienced teams, so sometimes end up, as today, on the end of a scoreline that doesn’t really do them justice.

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View from the south stand: Sale 35 Leicester 26

Posted on 01/02/202202/02/2022 by an old grey dog

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Well, if it’s fantasy, don’t wake me up, I’m enjoying myself.

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View from the south stand: Sale Sharks 49 Ospreys 10 [ERCC]

Posted on 24/01/202224/01/2022 by an old grey dog

See? See what I mean? Put some guys with a bit of gas in the backline and all hell breaks loose.

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View from the Birtles: Sale Sharks 26 Saracens 41 [AP15]

Posted on 22/01/2022 by an old grey dog

It may not seem it from the scoreline, but this was one of the best performances I’ve seen from the Sharks women.

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View from the armchair: Clermont 25 Sale 19 [ERC]

Posted on 20/01/2022 by an old grey dog

This was one of those I’d-have-taken-that-beforehand games: the type that, by the end, you’re actually feeling a bit disappointed with a result that’s better than you feared.

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