Given that I was expecting a tonking, you’d think I would be quite pleased with that result.
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View from le stade: Stade Toulousain 38 Sale Sharks 15
I bloody love these trips to France: good food, good wine, fabulous company…
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View from the south stand: Sale Sharks 33 RC Toulon 7
From the sublime to the ridiculous; from the ridiculous back to the sublime. This is the Way of the Shark, young mudskipper: learn it well.
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View from the south stand: Sale Sharks 29 Racing 92 7
Well, that was a welcome response to the disappointment of last week’s game.
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View from the laptop: Ospreys 23 Sale Sharks 15
We don’t seem able to get the hang of French referees, do we?
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View from the south stand: Sale 24 La Rochelle 37
I will admit to having a little chuckle at the end of the match, seeing all those empty bits of the stands that had, five minutes and two tries before, been fully occupied.
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View from The Alma: Stormers 31 Sale 24 [ECC]
I’m going to get a GIF of Bedders’s try on a loop. That way, I’ve got something on hand if I’m ever desperately in need of a giggle.
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View from the north stand: Leinster 37 Sale 27 [ECC]
I had various options for this report running through my head in the week leading up to the game. From bleakly catastrophic to unexpectedly euphoric, anything seemed possible. In the end, heart-burstingly proud probably sums it up best.
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View from the south stand: Sale 28 Stade Français 5 [ECC]
I had a quick rummage in the old clichés drawer and found it tangled up with a couple of trite aphorisms. A quick dusting and a bit of polish and I can bring you: ‘This was a game of two halves’.
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View from the armchair: Ulster 22 Sale 11 [HCC]
I’ve really been struggling to find something to say about this game, apart from “f—”.
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an old grey dog 
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