Well, we’ve spent the summer dipping into the amuse bouches of the Lions in Australia, England in the Americas and the pool stages of the women’s World Cup. But now, it’s time to sit down at the banqueting table for the real deal: the return of the PWR and the Premiership.
I walk this empty street, on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams…
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Well, that was incredibly disappointing, and yet, somehow, utterly inevitable.
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I preferred the second-half ref to the one we had in the first half…
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Did Sam James persuade Jason Robinson’s scriptwriter to come out of retirement? He left off the valiant late conversion effort but, otherwise, this was a home swan song of near-perfection.
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There comes a point during a match where you realise that the worst that can happen is a draw and you say to yourself “I’d’ve taken that before the game”, but you know that’s a lie.
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It’s always good to beat Leicester and the Sale Sharks women did so in some style to kick off a new season. Despite a shaky first ten minutes, which saw Leicester take a 7-0 lead, Sale found their composure, drew level within a couple of minutes, and never looked back.
It’s hard to draw conclusions from a single game but I think I see a bit more composure – a year-on-year overall improvement in the play as they get more experience and become more comfortable with each other.
I’m still working on recognising everyone – a task not helped by several new faces this season – so I’m going to miss out on mentioning players who should be mentioned. Apologies: I’ll get there eventually…
With an expression that suggests she’s not so much chewed a wasp as fricasseed it in hot sauce, tall Vicky Big Vick continues to stand out in more ways than one. Seemingly at the centre of everything, she played a significant part in Niamh Swailes’ try as well as bludgeoning through the entire Leicester defence to score a try of her own.
Talking of Niamh Swailes, she showed a decent turn of speed to score Sale’s second try. An outside centre would have been proud of that.
Usual suspects: Katana Howard, Hollie Bawden; Lizzie Duffy showed some good pace on the counter-attack to feed Hollie Thorpe for her try.
Onward and upward. Meanwhile, have some pictures.
Someone said that there was a rugby match at Salford Stadium last Friday. Well, for the first half at least, you could have fooled me.
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“Quirke… to Ford… to Twickenham.”
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In response to the Newcastle debacle, I suggested that we “move on and use the disappointment (and, I hope, anger) to rebound decisively against Leicester”. Well, in the words of that eminent swamp philosopher, “That’ll do, Donkey. That’ll do.”
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