Overview

• Sale secured the bonus point by the 34th minute and took a 31-0 interval lead at the CorpAcq Stadium.
• Arron Reed added a brace alongside Tom Roebuck’s hat-trick as the hosts ran in nine tries.
• Returning hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie scored and was later sin-binned, with Newcastle’s Max Clark also shown a yellow card.
• George Ford kicked six conversions to finish with 12 points.
• Elliott Obatoyinbo scored Newcastle’s only try as the bottom club fell to a third straight league defeat since Red Bull’s takeover, with Alan Dickens head coach after Steve Diamond’s dismissal.