[DavenportSharky]

Sale Sharks Starting XV:  

15. Luke James, 14. Obi Ene, 13. Joe Bedlow, 12. Sam Bedlow, 11. Alex Wills, 10. Ton Curtis ©, 9. Gus Warr, 1. Tumy Onasanya, 2. Tadgh McElroy, 3. James Harper, 4. Le Roux Roets, 5. Tom Burrow, 6. Jos Gilmore, 7. Tristan Woodman, 8. Rouban Birch.  

Replacements:  

16. Harry Thompson, 17. Ralph McEachran, 18. Tye Raymont, 19. Ben Bamber, 20. Will Riley, 21. Will Wootton, 22. Charlie Wardle, 23. Yande Nkonge.

[RinTin]

Solid enough, good mix and good exposure for players.

Is Alex Groves out on loan? Is RMW injured?

Frank Chatterton is someone I'm keen to see at some point. Unit of a backrower, not out on loan and 20 years young.

[DavenportSharky]

Caldy have lost their last 6 matches and are bottom of the Championship.
Proud night for the Bedlow family.

[Olyy]

Like the side,

Think I've seen Groves on the club's socials but no mention of loan or eligibility or anything - not sure if he's still recovering?
Not seen any mention of RMW either, tbf

Don't think we formally announce loans unless they're full season (like joe bedlow last year) so either/both could be out getting game time at champ or nat league sides, just have to stumble across them on team lists to find out

[DavenportSharky]

Sale Sharks v Caldy
Referee: Hamish Grant
ARs: Jamie Leahy & Peter Allan

[Olyy]

Just realised: still no Raffi

[Lord Elpus]

Come on - you don't want him injured in another meaningless game.

[Halifaxshark]

No Raffi is worrying. He was close to selection 6 weeks ago.

[ledzepsfr]

Come on - you don't want him injured in another meaningless game.

[DavenportSharky]

The Ravers

1 A Aigbokhae
O Hearn
N Rushton
M Gerrard
S Dickinson
S Olyott
C Ridgway
8 JJ Dickinson
9J Murray
D Rabbette
N Royle
M Barlow
C Wilkinson
M Cartmill
15 M Kilcourse
M Gallagher
M Weatherby
J Sproston
T Parry
R Higginson
O Wynn
B Jones
23 J Mitchell

[DavenportSharky]

28-0. Obi tries x 4, Curtis 4 identical touch line conversions.
Luke James on fire. Warr passing a lot. Smallest crowd of the season. No Caldy player has touched the ball in our 22. Scuffle after a high tackle ended up with senior Bedlow and their 10 in the bin.

[DavenportSharky]

FT 40-7

[Olyy]

Sounds a good run out - I wonder if it's a worth a look at 10. Curtis, 13. RdP in the prem if Ford has international stand down (imagine the central contract will make that more prevalent moving forwards)

Good for McElroy to get more game time under our systems and for LRR to get more minutes in his legs, can't get over how huge he is - if we can get him up to speed he could be a weapon

[DavenportSharky]

Roets seemed more involved tonight and seemed to be steering the maul. He was even lifted in the lineout which was quite an achievement. Will Wotton was very quick to the breakdown and has an Exocet of a pass. Curtis looked the part and may be worth a go with Rob at 13.

Sitting in the West Stand the constantly changing pitch side adverts seemed incredibly bright tonight and very irritating and distracting. Sharky won the half time crossbar kicking contest. Caldy brought quite a lot of support which got behind their team. Their only try was a penalty try.

[poyntonshark]

Sitting in the West Stand the constantly changing pitch side adverts seemed incredibly bright tonight and very irritating and distracting.

Just a thought, that is perfectly their job description.

[DavenportSharky]

Very true but so bright when the background was white that I had to look away whilst swearing about bringing sunglasses next night match. The players must also find it incredibly annoying????

[SSR]

Any video of the match/highlights likely to be available ?
Sadly I watched Ireland/All Blacks, not great entertainment.
Sounds like some good performances from our lads.

[Clutch]

Was a decent performance. A better drilled attack would have won more comfortably so it’s not addressed that concern. We tried to play more and Warr got shown up. He shouldn’t be close to playing in the prem for a team trying to play a more attack focussed game. Obviously he’s great in other areas. Wooton all over the place but there’s some promise there. Good to see Wardle make his debut though he mainly hit rucks!!

[DavenportSharky]

England’s late heartbreaks – and capturing a penalty frame by frame

https://www.thetimes.com/article/1edca2 ... b659add021

Towards the end of this article in The Times are some interesting photos of Sale v Caldy.
Hope you can open it.

[Lord Elpus]

[FarnhamShark]

I liked the look of Will Wootton, especially the pace of his pass. Hopefully he can calm down a bit and make sure it always goes to a Sale player.