By JON NEWCOMBE

Josh Beaumont refuses to read too much into statistics as Sale prepare to welcome Leicester to Salford on Saturday with a prize in the Premiership final at stake.
Only once in the last seven seasons of play-off rugby (2021) has the away team won, and on that occasion it took the biggest comeback in Premiership rugby history for Harlequins to beat Bristol 43-36 at Ashton Gate.
The away team has won only six of the 37 semi-final matches played (16 per cent) since this method of determining the champion team was introduced in 2002/03.
Only five teams have achieved the feat – ...