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Welcome back to the Salford Stadium for our final Premiership Rugby Cup pool stage fixture against an opponent that we know all about.  

 Newcastle have loads of quality and we know they’ll pick a strong team today because they’ve gone pretty much fully loaded in the PRC so far. We know they’ll be physical and challenging up front, they’ve got a good set-piece and they’ve got threats in the back line too. But I want to make sure that we grow our game and make the improvements that we know we can do from the performance last week… 

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The Premiership Rugby Cup is a breeding ground for the game’s future superstars and this weekend the Salford Stadium faithful will get a first look at four homegrown players looking to make their marks on the big stage. 

Dom Hanson, Ollie Davies, Patreece Bell and Alfie Longstaff will feature in a competitive game at home for the first time, while another first year, Jos Gilmore, makes his third appearance…

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It’s potentially the last welcome to the Salford Community Stadium for a little while as we finish off our Premiership Ruby Cup pool stage campaign against Newcastle Falcons. 

Our place in this competition is still alive thanks to a slew of bonus points (in contrast to our Premiership fortunes) leaving us as the current best placed runner up, and while we can’t catch Newcastle at the top of the pool we can secure a quarter final…

Your Sharks face a familiar foe on Sunday as Newcastle Falcons come to town for the final pool stage game of this season’s Premiership Rugby Cup. First place and a home quarter-final might be out of reach for Gareth Harris’s team, but a place in the last eight is up for grabs if we can win against a strong Falcons side, led by skipper Callum Chick.