Overview

• Sale secured the four-try bonus by the 34th minute and led 31-0 at half-time at the CorpAcq Stadium.
• Tom Roebuck finished with three tries, with further scores from Rob du Preez, Luke Cowan-Dickie, Ernst van Rhyn, Arron Reed (2) and Nathan Jibulu.
• Returning from a Lions tour curtailed by concussion, Cowan-Dickie marked his first club outing of the season with a try before being sin-binned; Max Clark also saw yellow for Newcastle.
• George Ford kicked six conversions, while Elliott Obatoyinbo claimed Newcastle’s lone consolation try.
• The Red Bulls remain winless under interim head coach Alan Dickens after Steve Diamond’s dismissal earlier in the campaign.