‘Ref was correct to send Manu off’

Alex Sanderson said he had no complaints about Manu Tuilagi’s red card for a forearm smash, but questioned the two yellows his side received in the second period.
Northampton scored four tries when first Cobus Wiese, for a high challenge, and then Ewan Ashman, for collapsing a maul, were in the sin-bin. “I have no complaints about Manu,” said Sanderson. Sale’s director of rugby. “It was due process for contact with the head or neck. I thought there were a few mitigating factors on (Wiese’s) yellow and I would like to have a look at that maul again because it looked like a pop pass to me and ...

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