NEWS EXTRA

By JON NEWCOMBE
SALE need to get up to speed and match the form of their play-off rivals if they are to back up on their Premiership Cup success with a first league title since 2006, according to DoR Steve Diamond.
The Sharks currently occupy the last of the four play-off places in the Premiership heading into the remainder of R21, sitting just below rampant Bath and Wasps. Bristol are hovering dangerously in fifth. “Bath, Wasps and Bristol have stepped up a gear, and we don’t seem to have done,” Diamond admitted.
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