Sale Sharks v Exeter Chiefs

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Exeter Chiefs

15 Josh Hodge

14 Immanuel Feyi-Waboso

13 Henry Slade

12 Len Ikitau

11 Olly Woodburn

10 Harvey Skinner

9 Charlie Chapman


1 Will Goodrick-Clarke

2 Joseph Dweba

3 Josh Iosefa-Scott

4 Dafydd Jenkins (c)

5 Andrea Zambonin

6 Tom Hooper

7 Ethan Roots

8 Greg Fisilau


Replacements:

16 Jack Yeandle

17 Scott Sio

18 Bachuki Tchumbadze

19 Lewis Pearson

20 Kane James

21 Tom Cairns

22 Will Haydon-Wood

23 Ben Hammersley

Sale Sharks

15. Luke James,
14. Tom O’Flaherty,
13. Rob du Preez,
12. Rekeiti Ma’asi-White,
11. Alex Wills,
10. George Ford,
9. Gus Warr;
1. Si McIntyre (100),
2. Luke Cowan-Dickie,
3. Asher Opoku-Fordjour,
4. Ernst van Rhyn ©,
5. Ben Bamber,
6. Jacques Vermeulen,
7. Tom Curry,
8. Dan du Preez.

Replacements:

16. Nathan Jibulu,
17. Tumy Onasanya,
18. James Harper,
19, Tom Burrow,
20. Hyron Andrews,
21. Raffi Quirke,
22. Marius Louw,
23. Regan Grace

Match Officials

Referee: Anthony Woodthorpe
ARs: Harry Walbaum & Jamie Leahy
TMO: Peter Allan

Weather Forecast as at 1200 Thursday

Partly cloudy and a gentle breeze from the south west
Temperature 8 degrees will feel like 5 degrees
Low Chance of Precipitation

TV Coverage

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Both squads look strong with returning internationals, I think we can win this but it will be close. Sale 19 - 24 Chiefs

Real shame Varney is unavailable, he's been unbelievable for both Chiefs and Italy.

I'd say the teams are pretty evenly matched. If our scrums and lineouts function, we have a good chance.

Sale so rarely lose at home on a Friday night and their selection shows worrying intent for me.
Sale 24 Chiefs 15

Sale away is usually not easy
Sharks 30 - 17 Chiefs

Sale 28 - 21 Chiefs

Hoping to be proved wrong

Chiefs 17 25 Sale

I’ve never seen a visiting team win up at the Corpacq Stadium in all my trips to Salford and, even though the teams are both very strong and evenly matched, I don’t think tomorrow’s trip North is going to be any different.
Chiefs 19; Sale 31

Sale 21 Chiefs 26

The Enya fixture.

The unavailability of Varney is a real shame, but im sure Chapman will deliver. We have confidence and momentum. If the guys don't let the Sharks bully them then I'm sure we are capable of a valuable win.

Sale 17 Chiefs 21

I’m struggling to make my mind up with this one, away at Sharks is a very hard ask and I’m hoping we continue our momentum after the international break, so I’m going for an away win.

Sale 21 Exeter 25

Sale 31 - 27 Exeter

Sale 37 Chuefs17

Like most above I think this is a close game. Im giving Sale the win dur to home advantage but Chiefs to get 2 points.
Sale 35 - Chiefs 27

Sale 22: Chiefs 24

In Rob we trust.
By the way - cream on first. There's nothing to debate.

Given sale’s fantastic home record and our dismal away form for last two years, I think it would be a very big ask to expect a win. However, I think it will be close given the quality we have in the backs. If we can match them upfront then we have a real chance.
Sale 26 chiefs 24.

Going to lean towards pessimism as it's on their turf.

Sale 30 Chiefs 25

Losing Varney is a blow for us, but we've a strong side and I think we can get a LBP there if we play to our best. Big night for Chapman with his first Chiefs start in the Prem.

Sale 31 Chiefs 26

Chiefs 27 Sharks 24

Sale 24 - Chiefs 28

Cant see a win here so Sale 28 - 17 Exe but I have been known to be wrong!

Sale 32 - 29 Chiefs

Sale 35 Exeter 28 2 bonus points please.
Beware the 3 pointers!

Sale 27 Chiefs 26

Not many teams win away at Sale, I don't think we will either. I'd be happy with a bonus point.

If, and it's a big if, we can gain parity up front we do have a chance. A good kicking game is always important against Sale, Interesting to see how Chapman goes on his first prem start.

I'm going Sale 32 Chiefs 17 Hope I'm wrong and we can get something from the game.

Like all here, hoping for a win but expecting a BP at best

Sale 27 Chiefs 23

As when we first got promoted, just earning points every match is the target.
So a close loss, with points awarded would keep us in the hunt, if we continue strong at home.

Sale's advantage is inexperience of Chapman - not his fault of course - but mainly in the quality of the 10's. Ford is a genuine top player. We hopefully will get enough possession and I hope we do not kick it away needlessly or poorly. They have some serious jackallers so that will be a challenge if players get isolated. A win would be a great result but Varney as. others have said is a big loss. After the last match I have no confidence at all in our bench 9 and 10 and apart fro our two props and Kane James it looks really weak. So a Sale win but I hope we can manage at least a point and with luck two. Sale 35 Chiefs29

We are allowed to dream...

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Not Manichean
We are allowed to dream...

I'm dreaming we can go more than thirty seconds without conceding a penalty! That was a pretty dire first half.

Tom Curry luck to escape with a yellow in my view

Also the commentary on TNT for this game is awful.

Danny Care really is awful on comms but no worse than our discipline and tackling.
Part of me is wishing we had rested Henry.
I didn't expect us to win tonight but this is really men against boys physically.
A wake up call to everyone that was getting carried away by our start to the season.
Tonight's game was always going to be a truer barometer of where we are and it's pretty grim viewing......



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2025:11:28:20:56:09 by Zyder head.

Delighted to say my previous post isn't aging well!! 😆
Win or lose we have turned this performance around quite incredibly! I certainly didn't see this coming so fingers crossed we can see it out....🤞
I am dumbfounded
C'mon lads,make me look an idiot! 🤞

That was an absolutely incredible turnaround so very well played lads.
That second half was the polar opposite of the first half and I can barely believe it even though I watched it?!
A 20 point deficit turned around at Sale?!
Bonkers.....👏

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Big Chief Little Chief

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Not Manichean
We are allowed to dream...

I'm dreaming we can go more than thirty seconds without conceding a penalty! That was a pretty dire first half.

Tom Curry luck to escape with a yellow in my view

Also the commentary on TNT for this game is awful.

I didn't believe it either tbf...

Ah! ZyderHead ... The perils of premature posting! 🫢😁 Not that I'm going to disagree with much that you said!

In Rob we trust.
By the way - cream on first. There's nothing to debate.

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Not Manichean

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Big Chief Little Chief

Quote:

Not Manichean
We are allowed to dream...

I'm dreaming we can go more than thirty seconds without conceding a penalty! That was a pretty dire first half.

Tom Curry luck to escape with a yellow in my view

Also the commentary on TNT for this game is awful.

I didn't believe it either tbf...

Oh ye of little faith!!! I always thought we'd win!!

And if you believe that you'll believe anything!! I think you'd be hard pushed to find a single Chiefs fan who thought we'd win after Sales second half try!

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Zyder head
Danny Care really is awful on comms but no worse than our discipline and tackling.
Part of me is wishing we had rested Henry.
I didn't expect us to win tonight but this is really men against boys physically.
A wake up call to everyone that was getting carried away by our start to the season.
Tonight's game was always going to be a truer barometer of where we are and it's pretty grim viewing......

Danny Care could be good in time, I do feel he's maybe too close to some current players. His description of the Curry tackle was laughable, especially in comparison to his description of hoopers tackle. The fact that neither spotted the change in the Sale prop was really amateurish.