rugby – Page 11 – an old grey dog

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View from the south stand: Sale 35 Newcastle 27 [GP]

Posted on 02/05/202202/05/2022 by an old grey dog

And this, folks, is where the story really starts to get interesting.

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View from the armchair: Bristol 29 Sale 35 [HC]

Posted on 18/04/202218/04/2022 by an old grey dog

Blimey. That took me right back to last season: tight, brutal, nerve-wracking and playing most of the game a man (or two) down.

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View from the south stand: Sale 9 Bristol 10 [ERCC]

Posted on 10/04/202211/04/2022 by an old grey dog

You know, I can’t be arsed. Take random sentences from previous reports and construct your own. Except…

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View from the south stand: Sale 12 Saracens 18 [GP]

Posted on 04/04/2022 by an old grey dog

To be honest, that’s about what I expected. I mean, I hoped for a Leicester-esque performance, but I expected a tight defeat. (I feared a tonking, but let’s skip over that.)

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View from the Rec: Bath 24 Sale 24 [GP]

Posted on 30/03/202231/03/2022 by an old grey dog

Four relatively easy kicks missed, any one of which would have been enough to give us all five points. That was the difference between maintaining the lead in the table and losing a little bit more ground to the teams behind us.

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View from the south stand: Sale 26 Wasps 41 [PRC]

Posted on 21/03/202222/03/2022 by an old grey dog

Even when you’re expecting to lose badly, it’s still quite disappointing when the expected happens. This is especially the case when the half-time score gave some hope that things wouldn’t be quite as bad as feared.

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