England forward Jonny Hill, who was given a 10-week suspension following an incident involving a Bath fan in June, will signal the end of a year he would rather forget by returning to action for Sale Sharks in the Investec European Champions Cup clash at Glasgow Warriors. Hill suffered a serious patella injury in the Read More …
England have suffered a major set back with Tom Curry, the Sale flanker, ruled out of the rest of the Six Nations championship with a hamstring injury. Alex Sanderson, the Sale director of rugby, revealed that Curry, who has been replaced in the England squad to face Wales by brother Ben, will be out of Read More …
Sale boss Alex Sanderson says a “simmering” Manu Tuilagi is ready to prove his England career is not over when he faces Northampton at Franklins Gardens. Tuilagi has seen Bath’s Ollie Lawrence chosen in the defence busting role against Italy after Harlequins Joe Marchant was picked to partner captain Owen Farrell in the loss to Read More …
Byron McGuigan is preparing for a 5,387mile journey from Manchester to Windhoek that will transform the Sale Sharks wing from a Scotland international into a key member of Namibia’s squad at this year’s Rugby World Cup in France. McGuigan won 10 Scotland caps with the last coming in the 17-0 win against Italy on February Read More …
Alex Sanderson, the Sale Sharks director of rugby, has never been afraid to push the boundaries to prepare his players for extreme physical and mental challenges which is why six Thai masseurs arrived at the club’s Carrington training ground this week as the team dealt with a five day turnaround between matches. While this latest Read More …
Raffi Quirke’s hopes of forcing his way back into the England squad for the Six Nations championship are being severely hampered following an operation on his broken wrist that will keep him out of action until the end of January. Scrum half Quirke , who has won two England caps, damaged his wrist against Gloucester Read More …
Sale Sharks are to help prepare Argentina for their opening Autumn international with England at Twickenham on November 6 with the Pumas training for three days at the Premiership club’s Carrington base next week. The Pumas are training in the North West as Argentina head coach Michael Cheika is also in charge of Lebanon at Read More …
AJ McGinty, the Sale Sharks outside half, is going to use his experience as a New York bar tender to help deal with the unique atmosphere created at the indoor La Defense arena in Paris against the superstars of Racing 92 in the Heineken Champions Cup quarter-final. Sale have employed lasers and smoke machines allied Read More …
Alex Sanderson, the Sale director of rugby, is not afraid of breaking new ground in a bid to give his team a winning edge and has turned to one of the world’s leading neuropsychologists in a bid to overturn a one point deficit in their Heineken Champions Cup second leg against Bristol on Friday night. Read More …
Mike Forshaw, the mastermind behind Sale’s formidable defence, compares trying to stop Harlequins from unleashing their attacking flair tonight with a game of Snakes and Ladders. The teams clash with Sale believing they can still claim a home semi-final play off, but to move a step closer to that target they will have to shut Read More …
