By PAUL REES

Starting: Guy Pepper

LAST season’s beaten Premiership finalists would not seem the ideal opponents after conceding a record number of points in the Premiership, but Sale have not often found joy at Kingston Park.
Newcastle have won their last five home league fixtures against the Sharks who, factoring out Exeter who missed the first 13 years of the Premiership, have only suffered more at one club on the road – Saracens.
Sale have only won once at Saracens but their record at Newcastle is not much better – four victories, three of which they secur...