Exeter Chiefs v Sale Sharks

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Chiefs 32 Sale 14

Chiefs 28 - Sale 21

Exe 28 - 17 Sale toes crossed

Exeter Chiefs:

15 Olly Woodburn

14 Paul Brown-Bampoe

13 Henry Slade

12 Will Rigg

11 Campbell Ridl

10 Harvey Skinner

9 Stephen Varney

1 Scott Sio

2 Jack Yeandle

3 Bachuki Tchumbadze

4 Dafydd Jenkins (c)

5 Andrea Zambonin

6 Tom Hooper

7 Ross Vintcent

8 Greg Fisilau

Replacements:

16 Julian Heaven

17 Will Goodrick-Clarke

18 Jimmy Roots

19 Lewis Pearson

20 Finn Worley Brady

21 Tom Cairns

22 Will Haydon-Wood

23 Dan John

Sale Sharks

15. Joe Carpenter,

14. Tom O’Flaherty,

13. Marius Louw,

12. Rekeiti Ma’asi-White,

11. Arron Reed,

10. Rob du Preez,

9. Raffi Quirke;

1. Si McIntyre,

2. Nathan Jibulu,

3. James Harper,

4. Ernst van Rhyn ©,

5. Ben Bamber,

6. Jacques Verrmeulen,

7. Sam Dugdale,

8. Dan du Preez.

Replacements:

16. Ethan Caine,

17. Ralph McEachran,

18. WillGriff John,

19. Jos Gilmore,

20. Reuben Logan,

21. Gus Warr,

22. Ollie Davies,

23. Alex Wills.

Match Officials

Referee: Christophe Ridley

ARs: Harry Walbaum and Simon Harding

TMO: Dean Richards

Weather Forecast as at 1200 Friday

Sunshine and light winds from the east
Temperature 12 degrees
Precipitation is not expected

TV Coverage

Channel 408 TNT Sports 1 SD from 1500
Channel 430 TNT Sports 1 HD from 1500
Also available on Discovery +

Home win Chiefs 27 - 19 Sharks

Chiefs 31 - 17 Sale

Decent looking Exeter team so:
Exeter 36 - 18 Sale

Astounded to see Daff in the starting 15 after the 80-minute shifts and amount of tackles he put in for Wales. He must be battered. Formidable team, I think we're going to win this one convincingly.

Strong XV this week, think we need to see a lot more from Rigg this week. If he's off his game Ma'asi-White will go over, round and through him. The back row battle could be a fairly even contest too. Will be interesting to see how JV goes against us.

Is but it's gonna be close. 26-22.

I suspect this will be very close.
Chiefs 31; Sale 26

Chiefs 32 Sale 19

Basically a must win game if we have any hope of top 4. Both sides missing a number of front line players, obviously Roots absence is a massive blow for us and our back row looks light. Agree Daf has put in a massive shift for Wales but we just don’t have any options in the second row, we are so short of quality in that position. Dweba omission is strange and assume Josh O-S is another injury absence.
Chiefs 38 Sale 32 but could easily go the other way as our bench looks thin on game changers.

Dweba was one (of many) that was not up for last week’s game, but probably needed more practice. Didn’t look as fit as normal so may have easily picked up a knock.
No surprise Daff is playing. Never got subbed at Uni; rarely subbed by Rob. Terrific engine there; back to his very best.
Please don’t get carded!!

A win is certainly not a given but I think that home advantage may just be enough.

Im disappointed that Wimbush isn't playing because long term, ( or at least over the next two or three seasons) I think his partnership is the one that I want to used most.

As others have said we will miss Ethan in the back row.

Im going for Chiefs 29 Sale 25

Chiefs 32 - Sale 21

Chiefs 37 Sale 30

Chiefs 29 - 25 Sale

Fingers and toes crossed Chiefs 38 Sale 32

Two relatively even starting 15s and two inexperienced benches. Unlike Bath's bench tonight.
Already beating a depleted sarries they then unleashed a bench full of internationals and the score got embarrassing. Away from their few old stalwarts and Wills sarries look a very ordinary side. A big big rebuild needed for them.
Back to our game! We'll obviously miss Ethan for the next six weeks, he gives us physicality that no one else does. Good to see Hooper back. Need a big game from Rigg. I think home advantage should see us through. Sale have not been playing well and with confidence low a fast start from us could make the game more comfortable.
Chiefs 33 Sale 19

Going with home advantage - Chiefs 33 Sharks 17.

That squad should be able to take care of business. Chiefs 30 Sale 15

Chiefs 42 Sale 25

I'm going with home advantage ......... Chiefs 32 Sharks 22

Chiefs 40 - 35 Sale

34:12 in hope of a major kick back from last week

In Rob we trust.
By the way - cream on first. There's nothing to debate.

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Astounded to see Daff in the starting 15 after the 80-minute shifts and amount of tackles he put in for Wales. He must be battered. .

Seems like Wales should have given him some rest and sub him at times, like Italy did with Zambo