Guinness Premiership - Stockport, 8 March 2009, 13:15 local, 13:15 GMT
Sale Sharks (16) 25 - 32 (11) Newcastle Falcons (FT)

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Timeline

Time Sale Sharks  Score  Newcastle Falcons
0 start of first half start of first half
3 Briggs - try
Hodgson - conversion		 7 - 0
5 Hodgson - penalty goal 10 - 0
7 Hodgson - penalty goal 13 - 0
14 13 - 3 May - penalty goal
15 Hodgson - penalty goal 16 - 3
23 16 - 6 May - penalty goal
27 16 - 11 Golding - try
40 end of first half end of first half
40 start of second half start of second half
41 16 - 16 Williams - try
42 16 - 18 May - conversion
46 Hodgson - penalty goal 19 - 18 Williams - sub off
Fenby - sub on
51 19 - 25 Fenby - try
May - conversion
52 Swinson - yellow card
53 Hodgson - penalty goal 22 - 25
61 Turner - sub off
O'Donnell - sub on
62 Keil - sub on
Thomas - sub off
64 Hodgson - penalty goal 25 - 25
66 Swinson - sub off
Parling - sub on
68 Peel - sub off
Leck - sub on		 Winter - sub on
Balding - sub off
69 Thompson - sub on
Vickers - sub off
77 25 - 30 Wilson - try
78 Macleod - sub off
Kuadey - sub on		 25 - 32 May - conversion
79 Charlton - sub on
Young - sub off
80 end of second half
end of half		 end of second half
end of half
0
80

Notes

 
Result Newcastle Falcons won by a margin of 7 points
Guinness Premiership points Newcastle Falcons 5 (1 try bonus), Sale Sharks 1 (1 losing bonus)
 
Ground name Edgeley Park, Stockport
Attendance 7907
 
Referee S Davey

Teams

Sale Sharks Newcastle Falcons
Tries Briggs (3) Tries Golding (27), Williams (41), Fenby (51), Wilson (77)
Cons Hodgson (3) Cons May (42, 51, 78)
Pens Hodgson (5, 7, 15, 46, 53, 64) Pens May (14, 23)
    Team
15 FB
Nick Macleod
14 W
Chris Bell
13 C
Mathew Tait
12 C
Lee Thomas
11 W
Oriol Ripol Fortuny
10 FH
Charlie Hodgson
9 SH
Dwayne Peel
1 P
Eifion Lewis-Roberts
2 H
Marc Jones
3 P
Stuart Turner
4 L
Dean Schofield
5 L
Sean Cox
6 F
Jason White
7 F
Neil Briggs
8 N8
Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe (c)
    Replacements
16
Carl Fearns
17 P
Rob O'Donnell
18
Brent Cockbain
19
David Tait
20 SH
Chris Leck
21 C
Rudi Keil
22 FB
Selorm Kuadey
    Team
15 FB
Alex Tait
14 W
Danny Williams
13 C
Jamie Noon
12 C
Tane Tu'ipulotu
11 W
Tim Visser
10 FH
Tom May
9 SH
Michael Young
1 P
Jonny Golding
2 H
Rob Vickers
3 P
Carl Hayman
4 L
Tim Swinson
52
5 L
Mark Sorenson
6 F
Phil Dowson (c)
7 F
Brent Wilson
8 N8
Adam Balding
    Replacements
16 H
Matt Thompson
17
Micky Ward
18 L
Geoff Parling
19 N8
Russell Winter
20 SH
Hall Charlton
21 W
Andy Fenby
22
Steve Jones

Match stats

Sale Sharks   Newcastle Falcons
1 Tries 4
1 from 1 Conversion goals 3 from 4
6 from 6 Penalty goals 2 from 5
100.0% Kick at goal success 55.6%
0 Dropped goals 0
Kick/pass/run
30 Kicks from hand 31
127 Passes 144
111 Runs 124
359 Metres run with ball 482
Attacking
2 Clean breaks 4
7 Defenders beaten 10
8 Offloads 12
82 from 87 (94.3%) Rucks won 92 from 96 (95.8%)
1 from 1 (100.0%) Mauls won 1 from 1 (100.0%)
16 Turnovers conceded 13
Defensive
141/10 Tackles made/missed 146/7
93.4% Tackling success rate 95.4%
Set pieces
4 won, 3 lost (57.1%) Scrums on own feed 10 won, 0 lost (100.0%)
5 won, 1 lost (83.3%) Lineouts on own throw 6 won, 0 lost (100.0%)
Discipline
7 Penalties conceded 10
0/0 Yellow/red cards 1/0

Sale stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Macleod 0/0 0 2/7/7 37 0 0 1 0 1/2 0/0 1 0/0
W Bell 0/0 0 2/1/2 21 0 0 0 1 3/1 0/0 0 0/0
C MJM Tait 0/0 0 1/4/7 48 0 2 0 2 4/0 0/0 1 0/0
C Thomas 0/0 0 1/0/8 21 0 0 0 2 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Ripol Fortuny 0/0 0 1/2/6 19 1 2 1 3 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
FH Hodgson 0/0 20 17/22/9 10 0 1 1 1 8/2 0/0 0 0/0
SH Peel 0/1 0 5/42/8 35 0 0 2 1 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Lewis-Roberts 0/0 0 0/2/2 0 0 0 0 0 6/1 0/0 1 0/0
H Jones 0/0 0 0/0/7 7 0 0 0 2 12/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Turner 0/0 0 0/2/0 0 0 0 0 0 9/1 1/0 0 0/0
L Schofield 0/0 0 0/2/7 24 0 0 0 1 13/2 0/0 1 0/0
L Cox 0/0 0 0/4/9 17 0 0 3 1 13/0 3/0 0 0/0
F White 0/0 0 0/1/10 14 0 0 1 0 15/0 1/0 2 0/0
F Briggs 1/0 5 0/1/5 6 0 0 0 0 16/0 0/0 0 0/0
N8 Fernandez Lobbe 0/0 0 1/14/15 88 1 1 0 2 5/1 0/0 0 0/0
(P) O'Donnell 0/0 0 0/0/5 5 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(SH) Leck 0/0 0 0/16/1 0 0 0 1 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
(C) Keil 0/0 0 0/0/3 7 0 1 0 0 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
(FB) Kuadey 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 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 Tait 0/0 0 5/8/12 119 1 2 0 4 2/0 0/0 2 0/0
W Williams 1/0 5 0/0/2 13 1 1 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
C Noon 0/1 0 0/6/5 23 0 0 0 1 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
C Tu'ipulotu 0/0 0 2/4/12 32 0 1 3 0 13/2 0/0 0 0/0
W Visser 0/0 0 1/1/2 18 0 0 1 1 3/2 0/0 0 0/0
FH May 0/0 12 12/29/3 14 0 0 0 3 7/0 0/0 2 0/0
SH Young 0/0 0 10/59/12 40 1 1 4 0 8/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Golding 1/0 5 0/3/6 6 0 1 0 0 12/0 0/0 0 0/0
H Vickers 0/0 0 0/1/8 21 0 0 0 0 7/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Hayman 0/0 0 0/6/4 16 0 0 0 0 11/0 1/0 0 0/0
L Swinson 0/0 0 0/1/9 7 0 0 1 1 9/0 0/0 1 1/0
L Sorenson 0/1 0 0/4/4 0 0 0 0 1 10/0 2/1 0 0/0
F Dowson 0/0 0 0/6/11 31 0 1 0 0 9/1 1/0 1 0/0
F Wilson 1/0 5 0/0/9 37 0 1 2 0 11/0 2/0 1 0/0
N8 Balding 0/0 0 0/5/16 51 0 1 1 2 6/0 0/0 1 0/0
(H) Thompson 0/0 0 0/0/2 0 0 0 0 0 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
(L) Parling 0/0 0 0/2/2 6 0 0 0 0 6/0 0/0 1 0/0
(N8) Winter 0/0 0 0/2/2 5 0 0 0 0 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
(SH) Charlton 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(W) Fenby 1/0 5 1/0/3 43 1 1 0 0 1/1 0/0 1 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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