We’re on the way roars Diamond

STEVE Diamond could not hide his delight after Sale beat Sarries for only the second time in eight years.

A third straight Premiership win suggested that Diamond’s men are on the march and the uncompromising director of rugby said: “We’ve got six lads in the England U20s and have now just beaten the best team in the Premiership.

“We’ve got Faf de Klerk and Rob du Preez which gives us some semblance of organisation, both home and away.

“That has been shown over the past seven or eight weeks and belief is a massive thing.”

Diamond added: “We knew there would be only three or four opportunities in the game and we took two in the first half. We’re getting there.”

Saracens counterpart Mark McCall was forced to concede: “We were playing a good team tonight who were very physical around the breakdown area.

“But our fundamentals really let us down – scrums, lineout and restarts.

“We didn’t react well enough as a group to some of the setbacks that we faced.”