Hit man: Chris Ashton

BARRINGinjury it’s not difficult to predict an avalanche of Chris Ashton tries for attack-minded Sale next season. Ashton has scored heavily wherever and whenever he has played.
At Wigan Warriors he scored 30 tries in 52 appearances while with Northampton in 2007-08 he scored 39 in 25 Championship appearances and went on to bag 33 Premiership tries with Saints. Add that to the 47 he clocked up with Saracens and he is currently third on the alltime Premiership list with 80 behind Tom Varndell’s record total of 90. It should be a good contest...