{"id":299797,"date":"2023-12-12T15:13:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T15:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=299797"},"modified":"2023-12-12T15:13:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T15:13:43","slug":"sale-28-5-stade-francais-tuilagi-earns-his-malbec-and-a-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/rugby-union\/sale-28-5-stade-francais-tuilagi-earns-his-malbec-and-a-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Sale 28-5 Stade Francais: Tuilagi earns his Malbec &#8211; and a contract?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Sale 28-5 Stade Francais: Marvellous Manu Tuilagi earns his Malbec with a thunderous comeback for hosts in demolition of French side&#8230; and perhaps a new contract too!<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Manu Tuilagi turned in a stunning performance in his first match of the season\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0He galvanised Sale Sharks as secured a bonus-point win over Stade Francais\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Director of Rugby Alex Sanderson said Tuilagi, aged 32, is &#8216;playing his best stuff&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Manu Tuilagi earned himself a \u2018decent\u2019 bottle of Malbec with a thunderous comeback for Sale \u2014 and the England centre\u2019s hard-hitting performance may also help to earn him a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>Having recovered from the hand fracture which he sustained at the World Cup, Tuilagi marked his first club appearance of the season by taking some punishment and dishing out plenty more in return.<\/p>\n<p>His impact galvanised the Sharks to claim a bonus-point victory over Parisian visitors who had rotated their squad for the trip across the Channel and duly paid the price in Salford.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Sanderson, Sale\u2019s director of rugby, revealed in the build-up to this Champions Cup Pool 4 clash that he would be using wine as a motivational tool for his Anglo-Samoan midfield veteran and asked if he did enough for a liquid reward, he said: \u2018Yes he did. He was sensational today.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He seemed to get more physical, the more hits he took. He took one off the kick-off and he got one off that centre so he went, \u201cRight, they\u2019re having it\u201d, came up with a pile-driver tackle and carried consistently hard all day. Manu is back, which we are very happy about.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/10\/21\/78798253-0-image-a-20_1702245455552.jpg\" height=\"442\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Manu Tuilagi made his first appearance of the season for Sale after fracturing his hand at the World Cup<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/10\/21\/78798337-0-image-a-21_1702245543700.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He galvanised his team to claim a bonus-point Champions Cup victory against Stade Francais<\/p>\n<p>Asked to be more specific about the prize he would be presenting, Sanderson said: \u2018It\u2019ll probably be a Malbec. It\u2019ll be a decent one, because he likes his wine. I\u2019ll make sure I don\u2019t disappoint him.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Tuilagi certainly didn\u2019t disappoint. He maintained an intense level of physical commitment for the full 80 minutes, which is something he has often struggled to do throughout his career. \u2018He looked so energetic,\u2019 said Sanderson.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018When we put Connor Doherty on with 15 to go, Manu looked up as if he was coming off and Connor said, \u201cNo, you\u2019re staying on\u201d. But it didn\u2019t look like he wanted to come off.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He wasn\u2019t moving slowly. He looks fit. It\u2019s a really good sign that he\u2019s probably got another couple of years in him.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Manu is 32 and he\u2019s playing his best stuff. This is as robust as he\u2019s ever been. He\u2019s still out there signing autographs. He\u2019s absolutely loving it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>When pressed on whether Tuilagi would be offered a new contract, Sanderson revealed that Sale will have a recruitment meeting tomorrow. He said: \u2018It\u2019s not entirely down to me. We have a selection syndicate, with someone who holds the purse strings. But if he plays like that, yeah he will earn a new deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I imagine he\u2019ll want to get his life sorted and we\u2019ll want to get our planning done before the Six Nations.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sale ground down Stade and eventually claimed three tries which was the least that their dominance deserved \u2014 with Tom O\u2019Flaherty, Jonny Hill and the magnificent Sam Dugdale touching down for the home side.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/10\/22\/78798351-0-image-a-22_1702245645800.jpg\" height=\"432\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Alex Sanderson hailed Sanderson for &#8216;playing his best stuff&#8217; aged 32 and said he would earn a new deal if he plays as he did\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/10\/22\/78798255-0-image-a-23_1702245748344.jpg\" height=\"392\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sale will have a recruitment meeting on Monday and Tuilagi&#8217;s future will likely be discussed<\/p>\n<p>England scrum-half Raffi Quirke was sharp and influential when he came off the bench \u2014 in front of the watching national coaches, Kevin Sinfield and Richard Wigglesworth.<\/p>\n<p>Sanderson had spoken last week about his club\u2019s motivation to prove a point after being written off as the \u2018whipping boys\u2019 in a bona fide pool of death. They certainly did that, but as he said: \u2018It\u2019s just a start.\u2019 And it doesn\u2019t get any easier next weekend, as Sale take on mighty Leinster in Dublin on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The man in charge is bound to make changes, but whatever lineup he puts out, the expectation will be that the Premiership leaders won\u2019t just cross the Irish Sea to accept their fate.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We are not going there to dip our toe in,\u2019 he said. \u2018We are not going to sit back and let them dictate.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/article-12848157\/Sale-28-5-Stade-Francais-Manu-Tuilagi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sale 28-5 Stade Francais: Marvellous Manu Tuilagi earns his Malbec with a thunderous comeback for hosts in demolition of French side&#8230; and perhaps a new contract too! 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