Sale DoR Alex Sanderson said after the match: “We just wanted to be on it for longer defensively this week.
"We are a little more connected and we have more bite to us when the collision comes, when we have to ‘find the monster’. We were lacking some bite, and I feel like we have it back.”
And Sanderson was full of praise for winger Tom Roebuck who dived over the line in the first half and then expertly created a try for Joe Carpenter.
Sanderson said: “Roebuck has worked hard to get there and play for England. But the goalposts have shifted – he was an aspiring international and now he’s an ...