Dan Braid, the captain of the Aviva Premiership Rugby Football Union club the Sale Sharks, has been ruled out for the remainder of the season after suffering a knee injury.
The former New Zealand international has already undergone surgery on the damaged knee, albeit a minor one, and will sit out the remaining two matches for Sale in the Premiership against the Leicester Tigers followed by the London Irish on the final day of the season.
Aviva Premiership Rugby Football Union club the Sale Sharks has announced the signing of Italian international prop player Alberto de Marchi on a contract of two years with the player turning out for the club at the end of the season.
The 28 year old, who was a part of the Italian national team in the recently concluded Six Nations Championship and played all five matches for the Italians during the competition and will be a direct replacement for the club’s England international front rower Henry Thomas who will be moving to Bath Rugby at the end of the season.
Mark Cueto is set to extend a brilliant thirteen year spell at the Aviva Premiership Rugby Football Union club the Sale Sharks by signing a new deal with the Salford based side.
Cueto, a former winger for England and the British and Irish Lions is in the last year of his current contract with the side and there was widespread speculation at the end of last season that this would be his last with the club and he would retire at the end of the term and look for a new career opportunity in the broadcast media circuit.
Steve Diamond, the Director of Rugby of the Aviva Premiership Rugby Football Union club the Sale Sharks has not ruled out adding further personnel to the squad if injury problems still persist with the side.
The Sharks recently signed Tongan international forward Viliami Fihaki for the side with the team dreadfully short of options in that position and this could lead to more players coming in.
Mike Forshaw, the new defensive coach of the Aviva Premiership Rugby Football Union club the Sale Sharks is relishing the challenge of taking the team from being the whipping boys of the top flight to making them one of the meanest teams in the country.
The Sharks named Forshaw as the club’s new defensive coach last month and he arrived at the club with a hugely impressive CV, both as a player in the Rugby League and a mean minded defensive coach both in the Rugby League and the Rugby Union.
Mark Cueto has backed the new signings of the Aviva Premiership Rugby Football Union club the Sale Sharks to make a positive impact in the side’s run in the Premiership this season and believes that their addition to the squad will help the club avoid another scrap to remain in the top tier of English professional rugby this season.
There is a long tradition of sports betting in Britain, and bookmakers’ shops have been present in high streets around the country for a very long time, but at the same time, it does seem as if this activity has experienced a growth in popularity during the last ten-to-fifteen years.
It is likely that there are a few different reasons for this, but one of them is almost certainly the availability of such services on the internet – as there has also been a rise in the number of people playing games like slots at the various online casino pages on the net.
Steve Diamond, the Director of Rugby of the Aviva Premiership Rugby Football Union club the Sale Sharks has stated that the club will have no room for excuses for a disappointing season come the 2013-14 season of domestic rugby. The Sharks lost the first seven games of the 2012-13 campaign before recovering in the end to finish the season ahead of the Worcester Warriors and the London Welsh.
Andy Powell, the number eight for the Aviva Premiership Rugby Football Union side the Sale Sharks is still hopeful of being able to extend his contract with the club beyond the end of the current campaign. Although injuries and illness have limited Powell to making just 12 appearances for the club, the 31 year old still produced a man of the match performance in the club’s win against Saracens FC in the semi finals of the Anglo Welsh Cup.
Henry Thomas, who plays at prop for the Aviva Premiership Rugby Football Union club the Sale Sharks, has spoken of his frustration at being injured during a time when The Sharks endured their worst run in the Premiership for years, and he was unable to help the side.
He has only made two appearances for the relegation battlers of this season’s Premiership but was ruled out after an injury, and now he is fit again and ready to return to action, hoping to turn the season around for the club.