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Falcons suffer big loss
Sale Sharks 53 Newcastle Falcons 10
CHRIS Bell and Juan Martin
Fernandez Lobbe both touched
down twice as Sale kept their
Guinness Premiership play-off
hopes alive with a clinical
bonus-point victory over
faltering Newcastle.
Centre Bell opened the
scoring in the second minute
and completed his brace in the
17th minute to sandwich a try
from rookie wing Selorm
Kuadey.
Lobbe added a fourth shortly
before half-time to secure a
bonus point and claimed his
second after the break before
further scores from Will Cliff,
Ben Foden and Michael Hills
took Sale's try tally to eight.
The result allowed Sale to
leapfrog Leicester in the table
and move up to fifth.
Philippe Saint-Andre's men
need to win their remaining
two games to secure a play-off
spot and the trip to The Stoop
will pose a far sterner test.
Newcastle - missing England
quartet Jonny Wilkinson,
Mathew Tait, Jamie Noon and
Toby Flood through injury -
struggled as they slid to their
seventh successive Premiership
defeat.
The tone was set in the
second minute when Charlie
Hodgson's delightful offload
was collected by Bell and the
centre burst through the
Newcastle backline to race
clear from 30 metres.
Hodgson failed to convert but
a pattern emerged whereby
Sale were in total control.
Northampton-bound fullback
Foden showcased his
remarkable attacking skills
from deep in ninth minute.
Foden, 22, embarked on a
scintillating run from inside
his own half which again
brutally exposed Newcastle's
glaring deficiencies as he
outstripped a clutch of visiting
players before seeing his
progress by a vital last-ditch
cover tackle.
It mattered not, however, as
Sale quickly recycled the ball
to allow Ukraine-born winger
Kuadey who plunged over.
Hodgson again failed to
convert from a difficult angle
out wide on the left but it was
one-way traffic and Hodgson's
short offload allowed Bell to
waltz over the line virtually
unopposed in the 17th minute.
Newcastle enjoyed a brief
purple and registered a try on
the stroke of half-time when
Sean Tomes barged his way
over for a score which Rob
Miller.
A penalty from Miller gave
Newcastle slim hope in the 51st
minute but Sale hit back with a
penalty from Hodgson and then
claimed four more tries.
Lobbe grabbed his second,
substitute Cliff took a pass
from Foden to claim Sale's
sixth score and Foden galloped
through for a seventh.
There was still time for Hills
- on as substitute - to scuttle
clear for an eighth try and with
Hodgson having departed, Lee
Thomas landed three
conversions
10:18am Monday 21st April 2008
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