Champions Sale take top billing but the best backs in National Two North all come from elsewehere

Handful at No.8: Hinckley’s Alex Salt

Key man for the Champs: Slale No.6 Tom Ailes

No.1: Dan Birchall

HISTORY was made as Sale lifted the National 2 North title for the first time and are rewarded with four players in The Rugby Paper’s Team of the Year.
Sedgley Park, who finished second in the league but lost in the promotion play-off to Chinnor, see a trio selected and, such was the competitive nature of the league, nine of the 16 clubs have at least one representative inc...