Chris Hewett

Sale’s human bowling ball is a very lucky man

by
The Rugby Paper Team
26 February 2023

CHRIS HEWETT
GUEST COLUMNIST

Act in haste, repent at leisure. We’ve all heard the line a thousand times, but you can’t get enough of a good thing.
Ask Manu Tuilagi who, over the course of a long career in which potential has outweighed delivery as an elephant outweighs a mouse, has had more time than most to reflect on the fallibility of human nature.
Alex Sanderson, who coaches the human bowling ball at Sale, talked of Tuilagi’s powers of repentance this week, just after the centre received a four-week ban for applying an unusually substantial forearm to the chin of the Northampton back...

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