Sale v Gloucester 7.45 friday

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Sale Sharks: 15. Joe Carpenter, 14. Tom Roebuck, 13. Will Addison, 12. Sam Bedlow, 11. Arron Reed, 10. Rob du Preez, 9. Gus Warr; 1. Si McIntyre, 2. Luke Cowan-Dickie, 3. Asher Opoku-Fordjour, 4. Ben Bamber, 5. Josh Beaumont 6. Ernst van Rhyn, 7. Sam Dugdale, 8. Rouban Birch.

Replacements:

16. Ethan Caine, 17. Tumy Onasanya, 18. James Harper, 19. Tom Burrow, 20. Le Roux Roets, 21. Nye Thomas, 22. Tom Curtis, 23. Waisea Nayacalevu.

Gloucester

15 George Barton
14 Christian Wade
13 Chris Harris
12 Seb Atkinson
11 Max Llewellyn
10 Gareth Anscombe
9 Tomos Williams (C)
1 Val Rapava-Ruskin
2 Seb Blake
3 Afolabi Fasogbon
4 Freddie Clarke
5 Arthur Clark
6 Jack Clement
7 Harry Taylor
8 Zach Mercer

Replacements:
16 Jack Singleton
17 Mayco Vivas
18 Ciaran Knight
19 Matias Alemanno
20 Ruan Ackermann
21 Albert Tuisue
22 Caolan Englefield
23 Charlie Atkinson

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Sale Sharks: 15. Joe Carpenter, 14. Tom Roebuck, 13. Will Addison, 12. Sam Bedlow, 11. Arron Reed, 10. Rob du Preez, 9. Gus Warr; 1. Si McIntyre, 2. Luke Cowan-Dickie, 3. Asher Opoku-Fordjour, 4. Ben Bamber, 5. Josh Beaumont 6. Ernst van Rhyn, 7. Sam Dugdale, 8. Rouban Birch.

Replacements:

16. Ethan Caine, 17. Tumy Onasanya, 18. James Harper, 19. Tom Burrow, 20. Le Roux Roets, 21. Nye Thomas, 22. Tom Curtis, 23. Waisea Nayacalevu.

Gloucester

15 George Barton
14 Christian Wade
13 Chris Harris
12 Seb Atkinson
11 Max Llewellyn
10 Gareth Anscombe
9 Tomos Williams (C)
1 Val Rapava-Ruskin
2 Seb Blake
3 Afolabi Fasogbon
4 Freddie Clarke
5 Arthur Clark
6 Jack Clement
7 Harry Taylor
8 Zach Mercer

Replacements:
16 Jack Singleton
17 Mayco Vivas
18 Ciaran Knight
19 Matias Alemanno
20 Ruan Ackermann
21 Albert Tuisue
22 Caolan Englefield
23 Charlie Atkinson

19 year old Tom Burrow set for his Sharks debut! This young man is good!

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Gloucester starting well. Some lovely touches across the team.

Seb Atkinson looking good. Couple of very nice touches and a strip on a Sale forward.

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Then three big carries into contact, bumping off RDP!

Gloucester looking good!

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Williams has made a huge difference!

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Fasogbon and AOF are putting themselves about! Jeez they’re both physical specimens!!

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Atkinson cuts Sale open with excellent decision making at the line!

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And then Seb Blake with a real turn of pace to save Glaws off turnover ball!

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Wade off injured. Picked it up early doors

[Which Tyler]

Id rather watch this, it can only get Saints Quin's.
Not a bad alternate

[Epaminondas Pules]

AOF tore VRR apart then! Commentators focussed on McIntyre causing Fasogbon problems but that’s because APF had tore up his side

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Sale open Glaws up when Mercer misses his man and then Sale execute really well. Ben Kay, as usual, spotting things a phase too late. Once Mercer was bust through by Bedlow Glaws were fucked!

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14 v 8 at half time. Good fun this. Glaws started so well but Sale have worked them out a bit. They just go out the back too much. It’s only Atkinson that’s spotting the defensive read and changing the plan. I feel for VRR who has been run into a Sale brick wall over and over again.

AOF having a belting game! Note to Sales box kicks which are very contestable!

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Sale in again! Aaron Reed is just too quick! Too fast for Llewelyn, and puts Roebuck in to score!

19 v 8

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Sale have Glaws number. Lots of endeavour from Glaws but Sale are well drilled and just not giving an inch.

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And then Glaws break out of their own 22 and score!

19 v 15

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Cracking maul and Sale have the BP through LCD!

24 v 15

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Nice blindside move off a lineout from Sale and LCD is in again!

31 v 15

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Now Glaws in! Its Englefield after a cross field to Lloewelyn

31 v 20

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Glaws have their BP after an insane bit of play! Atkinson (C) intercepts and almost goes the length but treacle meets Aaron Reed who makes two try saving tackles. The. Sale infringe, yellow for Bedlow and Glaws score from the penalty!

31 v 27

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Sale win 31 v 27!

Great fun that was!

Of note Fasogbon played a full 80!

I know I’ll rave about Atkinson (S), but he is so good!