BRISTOL LEFT FACING 'A TOUGH TASK'.BRISTOL will continue their grim fight for Guinness Premiership The Guinness Premiership is a professional league competition for rugby union football clubs in the top division of the English rugby system. There are, at present, twelve clubs in the Premiership. survival tonight, with assistant coach Paul Hull admitting: "It is going to be a tough ask." Sale Sharks Sale Sharks are a professional rugby union team who play in England in the Guinness Premiership. The club is an offshoot of Sale F.C., which is based in Sale, Greater Manchester, but Sharks currently play in Stockport at Edgeley Park, ground sharing with Stockport County F.C. are their latest opponents, but Bristol head to Edgeley Park Edgeley Park is the home of Stockport County Football Club and Sale Sharks rugby union club. It is located in Edgeley, south-west of Stockport in Greater Manchester, England, and has a capacity of 10,852 seats. in a perilous position of being nine points adrift at the basement. Sale apart, their remaining Premiership fixtures include trips to Bath, Wasps, London Irish and Leicester, which merely underlines an enormous degree of difficulty. A 35-3 home defeat against Newcastle last time out left Bristol hovering over the relegation trap-door. And they have reacted to that major setback by making five changes as centre Nathan Brew, fly-half Ed Barnes, hooker Mark Regan, lock Roy Winters and flanker Matt Salter all drop out. "The selections should be positive," said Hull, reflecting on call-ups for the likes of Luke Eves, Adrian Jarvis and Dave Attwood. "Our aim is to get up that table. It is going to be a tough ask, but that is what we are here for." |
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