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With a busy Premiership schedule, Alex has handed the reins to Senior Academy Coach, Gareth Harris for tonight’s Premiership Cup clash with Leicester Tigers. We caught up with him to get his thoughts ahead of the first group game of the 2022/23 competition...
Firstly, it’s a great opportunity for me to take the reins with a brilliant group of lads tonight, and I’d like to start by welcoming Steve Borthwick and his Leicester Tigers to the AJ Bell Stadium for what I’m sure will be a really exciting game.
Enjoy the game! Gareth
It’s been a different sort of training week for the squad tonight with a Tuesday night fixture landing so close to the away game against Bath on Saturday. There was an element of helping the senior squad prepare for the trip down to the Rec at the weekend, whilst also having a focus on the task, here at home, tonight.
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It’s an exciting opening round for us in the cup, and a great opportunity for us to start on the front foot.
I’m excited to see a lot of the younger lads play tonight. A few of them have had opportunities already in preseason, either with ourselves or away
on loan, so they’re ready for these two rounds of the Premiership Rugby Cup. I won’t pinpoint individuals as they’re all here by their own merits, but I am really looking forward to seeing them get out there as a squad and put their hands up to show what they’re about.
We narrowly missed out against Leicester last year in the Premiership Rugby Cup. We were a little disappointed with how we started away at Welford Road, but then followed up with a good performance at home against Newcastle. The big focus for these lads tonight is to come out firing on home soil, starting fast and ultimately setting our stall out early in this competition.
We’re fortunate to have a big Senior Academy group with a few lads coming in from last year’s U18s, so we’re not short on players which is great as there’s a healthy competition for places which naturally lifts everyone’s performances. Our Premiership bye week follows this game too, which means we’ve got some of the senior squad members who missed out at the weekend in the squad tonight. That adds to that competition and gives them a bit more game time so that they’re ready when they’re called upon.
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Well, Tuesday night lights is a new one!
This competition is a great opportunity for us to see the next generation of Sale players come through, and when you look at the success of some recent academy transitions into the senior squad (Roebuck, Reed and Doherty all come to mind) it’s in this competition that they’re bedded in. With a massively talented academy pool coming through including England stars Tristan Woodman and Ben Motamed, you’re sure to find a future Sale favourite on the pitch tonight and FROMno
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Welcome back to the AJ Bell for a return to the curiosities of the COVID era when midweek games became commonplace, albeit this time with the welcome return of Thecrowds.Prem Rugby Cup midweek matches lend a new angle to the competition and it’s one we’re excited to experience at home for the first time, having only played one of these away last season against Quins (and that went pretty well too, with a youthful team winning 34-29 at the Stoop).
doubt we will see some exciting rugby There’splayed.somuch talent in this academy that it’s hard to cover it all, but some ones to watch who we could see pushing for first team inclusion this season and beyond are worth noting. Upfront the likes of James Harper, Cal Ford and Alex Groves are all hugely exciting talents, with the younger generation of Ethan Caine, Huw Davies and Yande Nkonge behind them.
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In the backs there’s a wealth of exciting talents including Nye Thomas, Kieran Wilkinson, Joe Carpenter and Elliot Gourlay who all have a chance to make an impact after turning out at National 1 level for the likes of Sale FC and Caldy.
Enjoy the game and as you will no doubt soon be sayingremember the names!
Alex, James and Lewis
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It’s been a mixed bag in this competition the last couple of years – the highs of course of 2021 when we won being a great memory for many Sale fans after so many trophyless years, offset with last season’s exit after some poor results and a points deduction. On that basis we expect nothing less than another win in the competition this year and that starts tonight with a great opportunity at home against what we expect will be a similarly young and exciting Leicester Tigers side.
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Nye had been a stand-out player as he rose through the age groups at Liverpool College and his local rugby club, Sefton RUFC.
Academy scrum-half Nye Thomas shot to prominence in the early stages of the 2021/22 season when he made his Sharks debut just six months after completing his studies at Liverpool College.
Nye appeared as a second half replacement in the Gallagher Premiership fixture against Northampton Saints at the AJ Bell Stadium, and in doing so, became the youngest Sale Sharks scrum-half in the league’s history.
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After leaving Liverpool College, he enrolled on an International Development course at MetropolitanManchesterUniversity.
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Ben had already trained with Sale ahead of his move and within weeks of putting pen to paper, he made his debut in the Champions Cup fixture against Glasgow.
Ben started playing rugby as a youngster at both Pocklington School and Hull Ionians. He rose through the ranks as a Yorkshire academy player, training and playing for England under 17s and 18s and took up his first professional contract with Yorkshire Carnegie in 2018.
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Prop Ben Carlile followed fellow former Yorkshire Carnegie stars Jack Metcalf and Joe Carpenter to Sale in January 2020 when the Leeds club’s academy folded.
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Joe made his first appearance for the Sharks first team in a Premiership Rugby Cup fixture against Newcastle Falcons at the AJ Bell Stadium in November, 2021.
Centre Joe Bedlow joined the Sharks Academy from Myerscough College, but he’s not the first Bedlow to grace the halls of Carrington.
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Older brother Sam spent his formative years at the club before joining Bristol Bears, where he’s gone on to become a fixture in the midfield. And that’s not the end of the family’s connection to rugby. Dad Andy is a coach at Rossendale Rugby Club and eldest brother Tom plays in the fourth tier of English rugby.
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And Sale Sharks’ Women’s Performance Coach Rachel Taylor says both players are perfectly suited to lead the team into the new campaign.
“We are fortunate here at Sharks to have an extended leadership group to both learn from them and support them. Each brings a unique skill set to the group, and are very well respected among the team and club.
“We believe collectively that they offer a formidable combination of passion, professionalism,
enthusiasm and experience in captaining this team through an exciting year.”
Lauren earned her first Ireland caps aged 28, starting at fullback against England in the 2019 Women’s Six Nations, and joined Sharks Women the following year.
She said: “We’re really pleased to have both Lauren and Georgie on board as co-captains for the season ahead.
Sale Sharks Women got underway on Saturday (September 17) with an away fixture against Bristol Bears in the Allianz Cup.
Ireland winger Lauren and USA flanker Georgie take over the role after previous skipper Beth Stafford joined Bristol Bears in July.
She said: “I’m very proud to captain the team this year alongside Georgie. Sale Sharks is such a powerhouse of rugby in the North West, and it’s an honour to take on the role within the club.
“It’s an exciting time to be a Shark and we’re both looking forward to leading this great group of women to our best season yet in the Allianz Premier15s.”Georgie,who combines playing with working for the Sale Sharks Foundation, joined Sharks Women
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A trained sports nutritionist, she has recently taken up a role as Performance Nutritionist for Sale Sharks’ men’s and Academy teams.
INTERNATIONAL STARS LAUREN DELANY AND GEORGIE PERRISREDDING HAVE BEEN NAMED CO-CAPTAINS OF SALE SHARKS WOMEN AHEAD OF THE 2022/23 ALLIANZ PREMIER15S SEASON.
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when the team was formed in 2020. She made her debut for the USA in 2022.
She said: “I am honoured to cocaptain Sale Sharks Women alongside Lauren this season.
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“I am proud to have been involved with this team right from the beginning, we have a special group of players and I truly believe we are building towards something special. I look forward to the season ahead.”
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Michelle Orange, Trustee and club owner, said: “Now more than ever, it is essential we give children the tools to maintain their physical and mental wellbeing.
The ground-breaking project, launched between the charity and Sale Sharks’ principal partner last year, educates primary school children on mental health and wellbeing through hybrid classroom and outdoor sessions.
Sharks players past and present including Manu Tuilagi, Tom Curry, and Jason Robinson have helped deliver ‘Are You AO-K?’ to more than 1500 children in 25 schools across Greater Manchester.
“This is a really special project for us. To be able to reach the lives of so many people, promoting awareness of an issue that is highly pertinent in our modern world, is any charity’s dream.”
AFTER REACHING OVER 1500 CHILDREN ACROSS THE NORTH WEST, ‘ARE YOU AO-K’ MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMME WAS RECOGNISED AT THE CHARITY TIMES AWARDS.
The life-changing impact of the programme was rewarded with the national honour, presented at a ceremony at The Marriot hotel in CreatedLondon.by
Sale Sharks’ charitable arm, together with northern electronics giant AO, ‘Are You AOK?’ covers the relationship between social media and mental wellbeing, as well as cyber-bullying, screentime, maintaining a balanced diet, and keeping active.
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The first year of the programme culminated in a festival of rugby at Sale Sharks’ Carrington training centre, where 450 young people who had taken part had the opportunity to put into practice
Sale Sharks Foundation and AO struck gold last night at the 23rd Charity Times Awards as their joint mental health programme ‘Are You AO-K’ picked up the prestigious ‘Corporate Community Local Involvement Award’.
Mark Chadwick, a teacher at St Mary’s RC Primary, Swinton, said: “The programme really brought forward strategies for creating positive awareness amongst the children and strategies for dealing with any issues that they may face.
everything they had learnt playing against Sharks’ biggest stars.
“The inclusion of the class at the Festival event was such a brilliant occasion that the children are still talking about it and parents keep asking when the next one was. The highlight for me was seeing four of my least confident children laughing, joking, actually being deeply involved in the games and then shaking hands with opposition players after they had scored against them!”hardest to better our communities.”
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