DESPITE being on the wrong side of the result, Sale DoR Alex Sanderson was buoyed by his side’s performance. He said: “I’m really impressed with aspects of our game as we had physicality in spades and showed much better intention to run the ball.
“We created opportunities but we left points out there as our execution wasn’t good enough. We were 19-7 down at half-time but it could have easily between 21-19. We fell to some sucker punches and there were big momentum swings but despite being 36-14 down, we wrestled

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