Saints lead despite Myler nightmare
Sale 0 Saints 7 Saints had just a converted Paul Diggin try to show for a first half of total dominance at sandy Edgeley Park.
A nightmare kicking display from Stephen Myler saw the fly-half spurn four simple penalties and two try-chances was missed as well.
It looked like it would be an unlikely 0-0 at the break, but Myler put in a lovely grubber kick for Paul Diggin to pick up and score. Bruce Reihana took over kicking duties to land conversion.
Sale were reduced to two long range penalty efforts that were also missed. At half-time the PA announcer got everybody for a kicking competition much to the crowd's amusement, though they enjoyed Myler's misses more.
Teams:
Sale Sharks - Macleod; Vakacegu, Kennedy, Thomas, Cohen; Hodgson, Peel; Roberts, Briggs, Forster, Jones, Schofield (capt), Ormsby, Fearns, Koyamibole
Replacements - Jones, Kerr, O'Donell, Cox, Seymour, Wigglesworth, Bishop, James
Northampton Saints - Reihana; Ashton, Ansbro, Downey, Diggin; Myler, Dickson; Tonga'uiha, Sharman, Mujati, Fernandez Lobbe (capt), Kruger, Lawes,
Best, Wilson
Replacements - Long, Dreyer, Morris, Vickerman, Dowson, Dickens, Geraghty, Clarke
Referee - Chris White
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