Aviva Premiership - Salford, 9 May 2015, 14:00 local, 13:00 GMT
Sale Sharks (24) 34 - 28 (11) Newcastle Falcons (FT)

Match coverage:  Report

Timeline

Time Sale Sharks  Score  Newcastle Falcons
0 start of first half start of first half
1 Taylor - yellow card
3 Cusiter - try
Cipriani - conversion		 7 - 0
8 7 - 5 - try
17 Cueto - try 12 - 5
18 Cipriani - conversion 14 - 5
19 14 - 8 Clegg - penalty goal
23 Cipriani - penalty goal 17 - 8
29 17 - 11 Clegg - penalty goal
35 Tuitupou - try 22 - 11
36 Cipriani - conversion 24 - 11
40 end of first half end of first half
40 start of second half start of second half
45 Cusiter - sub off
Cliff - sub on
Ioane - sub on
Braid - sub off
48 24 - 14 Clegg - penalty goal
49 Jones - sub on
Taylor - sub off
Lewis-Roberts - sub off
Harrison - sub on
53 Seymour - try 29 - 14
54 Paterson - sub on
Mills - sub off		 McGuigan - sub on
Lawson - sub off
Fry - sub on
Vickers - sub off
AT Tuilagi - sub on
Clegg - sub off
Tait - sub off
AF Tuilagi - sub on
59 Hogg - sub off
Mayhew - sub on
- sub off
Blair - sub on
63 Orlandi - sub on
Brookes - sub off
64 Parker - sub on
Cobilas - sub off
Ford - sub on
Cipriani - sub off
66 29 - 19 Mayhew - try
67 29 - 21 Socino - conversion
71 Ioane - try 34 - 21 Witty - sub on
Thompson - sub off
74 Haley - sub on
Cueto - sub off		 34 - 26 Socino - try
75 34 - 28 Socino - conversion
80 end of second half end of second half

Notes

 
Result Sale Sharks won by a margin of 6 points
Aviva Premiership points Sale Sharks 5 (1 try bonus), Newcastle Falcons 1 (1 losing bonus)
 
Ground name Salford City Stadium, Salford
Attendance 7058
 
Referee MJ Carley

Teams

Sale Sharks Newcastle Falcons
Tries Cusiter (3), Cueto (17), Tuitupou (35), Seymour (53), Ioane (71) Tries (8), Mayhew (66), Socino (74)
Cons Cipriani (3, 18, 36) Cons Socino (67, 75)
Pens Cipriani (23) Pens Clegg (19, 29, 48)
    Team
15 FB
Tom Arscott
14 W
Tom Brady
13 C
Johnny Leota
12 C
Sam Tuitupou
11 W
Mark Cueto
10 FH
Danny Cipriani
9 SH
Chris Cusiter
1 P
Eifion Lewis-Roberts
2 H
Tommy Taylor
1
3 P
Vadim Cobilas
4 L
Jonathan Mills
5 L
Nathan Hines
6 F
Dan Braid (c)
7 F
David Seymour
8 N8
Josh Beaumont
    Replacements
16 H
Marc Jones
17 P
Ross Harrison
18 P
Ciaran Parker
19 L
Michael Paterson
20 F
TJ Ioane
21 SH
Will Cliff
22 FH
Joe Ford
23 W
Mike Haley
    Team
15 FB
Simon Hammersley
14 W
Alex Tait
13 C
Adam Powell
12 C
Juan Pablo Socino
11 W
Sinoti Sinoti
10 FH
Rory Clegg
9 SH
Ruki Tipuna
1 P
Rob Vickers
2 H
Scott Lawson
3 P
Kieran Brookes
4 L
Calum Green
5 L
Kane Thompson
6 F
Mark Wilson
7 F
Will Welch (c)
8 N8
Ally Hogg
    Replacements
16 H
George McGuigan
17 P
Eric Fry
18 P
Juan Pablo Orlandi
19 L
Will Witty
20 N8
Richard Mayhew
21 SH
Mike Blair
22 FH
Alesana Tuilagi
23 W
Andy Tuilagi

Match stats

Sale Sharks   Newcastle Falcons
5 Tries 3
3 from 5 Conversion goals 2 from 3
1 from 1 Penalty goals 3 from 3
67.0% Kick at goal success 83.0%
0 Dropped goals 0
Kick/pass/run
30 Kicks from hand 28
135 Passes 162
114 Runs 113
468 Metres run with ball 454
Attacking
62% (75%/50%) Possession (1H/2H) 38% (25%/50%)
10 Clean breaks 7
24 Defenders beaten 15
7 Offloads 15
72 from 75 (96.0%) Rucks won 71 from 76 (93.4%)
0 from 0 Mauls won 0 from 0
14 Turnovers conceded 12
Defensive
110/15 Tackles made/missed 112/24
88.0% Tackling success rate 82.0%
Set pieces
5 won, 0 lost (100.0%) Scrums on own feed 7 won, 1 lost (87.5%)
8 won, 1 lost (88.9%) Lineouts on own throw 17 won, 4 lost (81.0%)
Discipline
10 Penalties conceded 8
1/0 Yellow/red cards 0/0

Sale stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Arscott 0/1 0 6/4/10 110 1 2 0 0 3/0 1/0 1 0/0
W Brady 0/1 0 0/4/4 30 0 1 0 3 6/1 0/0 0 0/0
C Leota 0/0 0 0/1/11 38 0 2 0 2 7/1 0/0 1 0/0
C Tuitupou 1/0 5 0/6/15 35 2 4 0 1 11/1 0/0 1 0/0
W Cueto 1/0 5 5/1/11 93 3 4 0 2 5/1 0/0 0 0/0
FH Cipriani 0/0 9 13/27/6 31 1 2 0 0 7/0 0/0 0 0/0
SH Cusiter 1/0 5 2/48/6 15 1 0 1 0 2/1 0/0 0 0/0
P Lewis-Roberts 0/0 0 0/1/1 0 0 0 0 0 0/2 0/0 1 0/0
H Taylor 0/0 0 0/1/6 15 0 1 0 0 4/0 0/0 1 1/0
P Cobilas 0/0 0 0/2/1 0 0 0 0 0 3/1 0/0 2 0/0
L Mills 0/0 0 0/1/12 11 0 1 0 0 7/0 0/0 1 0/0
L Hines 0/0 0 0/6/3 2 0 0 3 0 3/0 2/1 0 0/0
F Braid 0/0 0 1/3/6 14 0 1 0 0 9/2 0/0 0 0/0
F Seymour 1/0 5 0/1/5 13 0 0 0 0 10/2 0/0 1 0/0
N8 Beaumont 0/1 0 0/9/5 42 2 4 2 1 7/1 5/3 0 0/0
(H) Jones 0/0 0 0/0/2 7 0 0 0 0 5/1 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Harrison 0/0 0 0/0/1 2 0 0 0 0 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Parker 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
(L) Paterson 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(F) Ioane 1/0 5 0/4/5 7 0 1 1 3 8/1 0/0 1 0/0
(SH) Cliff 0/0 0 1/14/1 0 0 0 0 1 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(FH) Ford 0/0 0 2/2/0 0 0 0 0 1 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(W) Haley 0/0 0 0/0/2 3 0 1 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
Key:  T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

Newc stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Hammersley 0/0 0 5/3/14 120 1 4 0 2 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Tait 0/0 0 1/2/7 33 2 2 0 0 4/1 0/0 0 0/0
C Socino 1/1 9 4/22/9 35 1 0 1 1 6/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Sinoti 0/0 0 1/2/8 42 0 0 0 1 2/3 1/0 0 0/0
FH Clegg 0/0 9 7/21/5 23 0 0 0 1 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Vickers 0/0 0 0/0/1 3 0 0 0 0 8/1 0/0 1 0/0
H Lawson 0/0 0 0/3/2 5 0 1 1 0 12/1 0/0 0 0/0
P Brookes 0/0 0 0/2/1 0 0 0 0 1 3/1 0/0 0 0/0
L Green 0/0 0 0/2/4 4 0 0 0 1 10/1 6/0 2 0/0
L Thompson 0/0 0 0/3/5 10 0 0 2 1 6/1 7/1 1 0/0
F Wilson 0/0 0 0/1/6 8 0 1 0 0 12/3 0/0 0 0/0
F Welch 0/0 0 0/5/6 10 0 0 0 0 16/3 0/0 1 0/0
N8 Hogg 0/0 0 0/3/2 4 0 0 0 1 6/2 3/0 0 0/0
(H) McGuigan 0/0 0 0/4/5 4 0 1 2 1 3/1 0/0 1 0/0
(P) Fry 0/0 0 0/2/2 3 0 0 1 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Orlandi 0/0 0 0/0/1 1 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 1 0/0
(L) Witty 0/0 0 0/0/1 2 0 0 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(N8) Mayhew 1/0 5 0/1/3 7 0 1 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(SH) Blair 0/1 0 2/29/4 18 1 1 4 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(FH) AT Tuilagi 0/0 0 0/0/4 4 0 1 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(W) AF Tuilagi 0/0 0 0/2/6 20 0 0 0 0 0/1 0/0 0 0/0
Key:  T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

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