RugbyRebels

Sale: L James; Solomona, S James, Janse van Rensburg, McGuigan; MacGinty, De Klerk; Harrison, Webber, John, Evans, Phillips, Ross (capt), T Curry, Beaumont.

Replacements: Langdon, Morozov, Jones, Strauss, B Curry, Cliff, Redpath, Reed.

Harlequins: Brown; Earle, Alofa, Tapuai, Murley; Catrakilis, Care; Boyce, Crumpton, Sinckler, Symons, Horwill (co-capt), Clifford, Robshow (co-capt), Dombrandt.

Replacements: Ward, Auterac, Swainston, Glynn, Luamanu, Hidalgo-Clyne, Smith, Saili.

I'm enjoying watching both these teams recently, reckon this will be good.

I’m nervous about this one. We just about scraped past Worcester in the Challenge Cup last weekend, but our last two Premiership games have been poor.

We’ve had some decent wins on the road this season against teams around us (Gloucester and Bath spring to mind), but those feel like they were quite a while ago.

We do seem to be particularly shit against Worcester in general though.

Sale pretty tough at home and Quins Prem form has dipped a bit (and they were very lucky to win last week too) Important game for Sale as they seek to solidify 6th place.

I’m not sure if we were lucky. I’d be first to admit we didn’t create much but our defence was good and we punished Worcester’s mistakes.

has redpath been featuring for Sale's senior team this season much before?

Injuries biting Quins...

Losing Marler, Elia, Collier, little Chis, Ibitoye and Marchant together is a bummer.

Yeah. Effectively a quarter of our first choice 23.

At least Crumpton is back. Hopefully, we can keep Ward on the bench for as long as possible.

Banquo wrote:has redpath been featuring for Sale's senior team this season much before?

He was out for the first chunk of the season injured, but he's been fairly regular in and around the XXIII the second half so far. I think Sale are actually doing a pretty good job introducing, while patiently looking after their young talent.

Puja

Great start. Happy with that!

Faf is a super hero sh.

Yep. We might come to regret not scoring that.

All things considered, I’m very happy with our start. We look up for it.

Very unlucky for quins.

Fun game.

Another try from a Care kick!

We’re actually playing fairly well but Sinckler is having one of those games where he’s mainly a liability ...

Sale have done literally nothing for their 19 points. We’ve literally gifted them 16 of them with Barnes giving them a free 3 points from an offside that never was ...

I maintain that we’ve played fairly well but Sinckler in particular has cost us points through pure stupidity.

Love him or loathe him, Solomona’s strike rate is ridiculous. Even more so in a very average team.

Mellsblue wrote:Love him or loathe him, Solomona’s strike rate is ridiculous. Even more so in a very average team.

It seems like modern test rugby is all about defensive wingers that can hussle.

Love him loathe him, Webber’s body shape is ridiculous. Even more so as he’s a professional rugby player.

Why?
Just... why?

Completely ... we were coming back in to this.

He’s been f**king us over with his stupidity all night.

What an idiot. Eddie will not be impressed.

Not at all. At times he’s harshly judged but tonight shows exactly why ...