Team to play London Irish on Sunday

This just in from Dave Swanton:


Sale Sharks have named their side for Sunday’s Guinness Premiership game at London Irish. Included in the starting line up is Luke McAlister who missed the game at Leeds with a leg injury.

Julien Laharrague, Mark Cueto, Luke McAlister, Lee Thomas, Oriol Ripol, Charlie Hodgson, Richard Wigglesworth, Andrew Sheridan, Sebastien Bruno, Eifion Roberts, Chris Jones, Brent Cockbain, Jason White, Magnus Lund, Sebastien Chabal

Replacements From: Neil Briggs, Lionel Faure, Stuart Turner, Sean Cox, Dean Schofield, JM Fernandez Lobbe, Sililo Martens, Chris Mayor, Rudi Keil

Director of Rugby Philippe Saint Andre said, “ I will make my mind up over the bench at the team run on Saturday morning. It has been a very quick turn around this week having played on Sunday. This game will be the last Guinness Premiership game some of my players play in before the Six Nations and we are very keen to keep our recent winning form going. It will be tough though, London Irish are always difficult opponents, especially on their own ground.”