Sale v Bristol

[An Tarbh]

Sale v Bristol (Fri)

Sale welcome back internationals Mathew Tait, Dwayne Peel, Lionel Faure and Sebastien Chabal for Friday's home match against basement club Bristol.

Inside centre Luke McAlister is out after undergoing what the club call "minor" knee surgery, and is replaced by Rudi Keil.

Bristol lock Dave Attwood will make his Premiership debut as coach Richard Hill makes five changes to his team.

Luke Eves, Adrian Jarvis, Joe El Abd and Scott Linklater also come in.


Sale: Macleod; Bell, Tait, Keil, Ripol; Hodgson, Peel; Faure, Bruno, Roberts, Chabal, Schofield, C Jones, Abraham, JM Fernandez Lobbe.
Replacements: M Jones, Turner, Cox, Briggs, Leck, Thomas, Kuadey.

Bristol: T Arscott; Robinson, Brew, Eves, Lemi; Jarvis, Perry; Irish, Linklater, Crompton, Attwood, Budgett, To'oala, El Abd, Ward-Smith.
Replacements: Blaney, Thompson, Winters, Pennycook, Beveridge, Barnes, Brew.

From - BBC Sport

 

[Sir Speedy]

What's the difference betwen 'minor' knee surgery and 'MAJOR' knee surgery? :huh:
Anywho, if this isn't a bp win for Sale then f*** knows what's wrong with the team.

 

[Sir Speedy]

And apparently, he's gonna be out for 2 - 3 weeks, missing the Sarries match and possibly the Newcastle home game also.
Bugger, we could've targeted the Sarries away game! Thomas - Bell centre partnership isn't half as threatening...

 

[Daylightfire]

This should be a comfortable victory for Sale, 15-20 points I reckon

 

[Sir Speedy]

0 - 6 to the Brizzle Bears currently. Got one half of my prediction right so far then...

 

[An Tarbh]

13-6 now.

 

[Sir Speedy]

27 - 6 now. Phew. I would've been on the verge of breakdown if they missed the bp in this match... Still, 1 try left, though shouldn't be too hard.
BP try! Woot.

 

[An Tarbh]

happy now?

 

[Sir Speedy]

No. My predicted score was wrong.

 

[iWin]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Sir. Speedy @ Feb 20 2009, 01:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

What's the difference betwen 'minor' knee surgery and 'MAJOR' knee surgery? :huh:
Anywho, if this isn't a bp win for Sale then f*** knows what's wrong with the team.[/b]

It's the difference between a few weeks out for a slight problem, or 10 months because your cruciate has gone.