Part two of the attempt to regain lost ground was achieved comfortably and at a relative canter.
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View from the armchair: Wasps 11 Sale 20
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
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
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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View from the south stand: Sale 39 London Irish 0
When you’re still having to pinch yourself to prove that, yes, we really are second in the table, it seems a little churlish to be greedily anticipating the possibility of going top. Even if only for 18 hours.
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View from the armchair: Gloucester 17 Sale 23
Second in the table. Say it again: second. In the table. Halfway through the season (is it really only halfway?) and, without ever being consistent, Sale find themselves—almost apologetically—in nosebleed territory.
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View from the south stand: Sale 36 Leicester 3
It’s a strange feeling when Leicester come calling and you greet most of the team announcement with “who?” — I’m much more used to a feeling of rising dread as fearsome name after fearsome name is listed, even on a 6 Nations’ weekend. How the mighty have fallen.
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View from the south stand: Sale Sharks 28 Saracens 7
The bookies had Sale at between 1–20 and 1–30 to win this match, so expectations were high that a strong Sale team could put a 2nd-choice (but certainly not rabbits) Saracens to the sword. And, for twenty minutes, it looked as if the bookies may have erred on the cautious side, as Sale scored their first try inside of two minutes and, by the 18th minute, had added two more for a 21–0 lead.
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View from the south stand: Sale 7 Glasgow 45
Talk about ‘dead rubbers’. Talk about ‘blooding youngsters’. Talk about ‘protecting senior players’. Talk about ‘concentrating on the league’. Talk about sheer, red-faced, hole-in-the-ground bloody embarrassment.
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View from the south stand: Sale 48 Harlequins 10
We’ve been saying for a while that, at some point, this Sale team will click and some poor sods are going to be on the wrong end of a hiding. Well, this was a hiding, make no mistake, but I don’t think it came from Sale ‘clicking’ as such. Or, if they did click, it was more of a ratchet than a smooth gearbox.
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