Sale Football Club was founded in 1861 by a team of enthusiastic sportsmen drawn mainly from Sale Cricket Club. The fifth oldest surviving rugby club and the most prominent in the history of the North West.
Promoted as Champions of National 2 North last season Sale lie 10th in National 1 with a played 28 Won 12 record. Last week Sale defeated Plymouth Albion at home 31-22 to secure another season in National 1. They have two players Connor Doherty and Christian Taylor who have been rewarded this season with England u19 and England Students call ups.
Last week Ampthill 1stXV secured a bonus point win away at Moseley despite a strong second half comeback from the home side, promotion rivals Old Elthamians failed to secure the 4 try bonus point restoring Ampthill’s lead at the top of National 1 to 5 points. OE’s have another tough game this week away at Bishop’s Stortford, it is possible that Ampthill may secure promotion to the Championship this weekend, be there or you’ll regret it.
“It’s Sale FC’s first visit to Dillingham, they play an exciting brand of rugby which is really entertaining to watch so I’m sure it will be a good contest.
We played well in parts last week but we didn’t put an 80 minute performance together so we are hoping to improve on that on Saturday.
Regrettably Richmond can not fulfil the 1881’s fixture so we only have two games at home this week with the 1sts and 5ths both kicking off at 15:00 on the top pitches.”
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Ampthill Squad
Sale Squad
Dan Birchall
Chris Taylor
Simon Griffiths
Matthew Postlethwaite
Stone Priestley-Nangle
Andrew Hughes
David Seymour
Thomas Ailes
Matt Bradley
Kieran Wilkinson
Paolo Odogwu
Jack Moorhouse
Connor Doherty
Edward O'Keefe
Robert Povey
John Blanchard
Adam Aigbokhae
William Davies
Kieran Dunne
Emiliano Calle Rivas