NEWS EXTRA
By GARY FITZGERALD
STEVE Diamond is convinced Sale have the player power to mount a serious push for the top four. Four successive Premiership Cup wins – including a first victory at Allianz Park – and a place in the semifinals where they will face Saracens again have also increased the confidence and optimism oozing from Diamond as the new season explodes into action.
Slipping into the Champions Cup via the side door – left ajar by results in the Top 14 – helped ease some of the anguish at faltering in the finishing straight last May.
Now Diamond, whose s...