Newcastle Falcon vs Sale Sharks

[Teh Mite]

Kingston Park
Fri Jan 7 2011
at 19:45 (local)

Sale won 35-18 when the two teams met in round one and are going for a first ever league double over the Falcons in the same season. The Sharks' only previous win at Kingston Park came in 2008.

Newcastle Falcons' only victory in their last eight Aviva Premiership Rugby encounters was 12-6 at home to Gloucester on 21 November. The Falcons have won their last three home games in all competitions, although because of the inclement weather the most recent of those was played "over the border" in Galashiels.

Sale Sharks ended a five game losing run in all competitions with their 28-22 victory at home to Saracens on Sunday.

The Sharks have recorded just one win away from home in the Premiership since November 2009: 6-3 at Leeds on 22 October.

Referee: Tim Wigglesworth (29th Premiership game)​

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Sale Sharks
Nick Macleod,
Paul Williams,
Chris Bell,
Kyle Tonetti,
Mathew Tait,
Charlie Hodgson,
Dwayne Peel,
Andrew Sheridan,
Marc Jones,
Karena Wihongi,
Chris Jones,
Kristian Ormsby,
James Gaskell (Captain),
Carl Fearns,
Sisa Koyamaibole

Replacements: Ben Roberts, Lee Imiolek, Henry Thomas, Sean Cox, Neil McMillan, Will Cliff, Rob Miller, Iain Thornley

Rhys Crane out with an injury, Cueto having to miss it because of the EPS player-resting thing,
Paul Williams moved to wing, Tait and MacLeod off of the bench to wing and fullback respectively

Not sure how I feel about Tait on the wing, he's not the fastest anymore and lacks confidence, but I guess we'll see
Glad the rest of the team remains unchanged from the Sarries game (though would've liked to see Imiolek start)


Euan Murray making his debut
Newcastle Falcons
Jeremy Manning
Luke Fielden
Gcobani Bobo
Tane Tu'ipulotu
Charlie Amesbury
Jimmy Gopperth
Micky Young
Grant Shiells
Matt Thompson
Euan Murray
James Hudson
Tim Swinson
Brent Wilson
Will Welch
Ally Hogg

Replacements: Joe Graham Jonny Golding Kieran Brookes Filipo Levi Redford Pennycook Jason Spice Luke Eves Danny Williams

 

[Duckdee]

First half was enthralling in a weird way.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Average match and a draw is probably right

Ref was pants for both sides

 

[Duckdee]

Ref was pants for both sides

They did well with spotting that Gaskell wasn't punching, though.