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Article: Rugby Union: Sale dream of survival as Quins drift off
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 12, 1994
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SALE time in the Courage Clubs' Championship. Which is to say
that for Sale it is First Division time and with it the question
that faces every newly instated First Division club: how to survive?
It is a modest enough aim, and Sale showed the wherewithal to
achieve it by digging so deeply into a 20-point half-time deficit
that they lost by just the one point, 20-19, when they introduced
themselves against Harlequins at
Heywood Road.
Sale were not inhibited from playing the expansive rugby that
had won them last season's Second Division and, in the 34-year-old
former Wales stand-off Paul Turner, they enjoy one of rugby's most
enduringly skilful practitioners. As long as Sale's coaching ...