Sale Sharks head coach brilliantly goes IN on Champions Cup officials after weekend loss
We have SO much time for this. We’re not going to go after Diamond for this, this is how head coaches should be. Brilliantly executed savagery old boy!
In a post-match press after the loss, the Sale Sharks refreshingly said whatever he wanted and we love this kind of interview. Too many times in rugby head coaches will keep their mouths shut to avoid controversy. He just said it how it was here and we love it!
Sale Sharks lost to Exeter over the weekend in front of a packed out Ashton Gate crowd.
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Stuart Hogg scored his first try for Exeter before going off with a head injury as the Chiefs maintained their 100 per cent Heineken Champions Cup record with a nail-biting 22-20 win at Sale.
The Sharks staged a tremendous rally after trailing 22-8 after 25 minutes and scored the only try of the second half but in the end ran out of time and a second defeat in three matches left their qualification hopes hanging by a thread.
Despite scoring three tries before half-time, the Chiefs failed for the first time to secure a bonus point but, after beating all three opponents in Pool Two, they have a stranglehold on the group at the halfway stage.
Hooker Akker Van Der Merwe scored two first-half tries for the Sharks to keep them in the game but they are now below Glasgow in the group and need to beat Exeter in the return fixture at Sandy Park next Sunday to keep alive their hopes of only a second appearance in the knockout stages.
When asked about how the officials got on in the game, this is what he had to say…
“I just said, ‘Good game’,” Diamond replied, deadpan. “I said, ‘You’ve had a fantastic game, your touch judges had a brilliant game’. Hopefully that’ll go through to their assessors – and we’ll never see the b******s again in Manchester.”
Here is the video of the moment he said it. Brilliantly honest.
FANTASTIC!
