A new rugby season brings with it new faces on and off the field. Here at Sale Sharks that means a new men’s head coach, a new men’s attack coach, a new women’s coaching team and a host of exciting new players brought in to take the club to the next level.

With new faces in any business come challenges of how to integrate new ideas and principles, how to maintain consistent performance, how to get everyone up to speed and how to make sure that everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet.

A rugby club is no different. In this exclusive event we’ll take you behind the scenes at Sale Sharks as we kick off the 2025/26 men’s and women’s seasons, we’ll introduce you to some of our new faces, including Head Coach Marco Bortolami, and we’ll tell you how we’re making sure this season is our best one yet…on and off the field.

Plus guests will also hear from the team at UBS Global Wealth Management in Manchester, to learn about how they’re advising business owners and entrepreneurs, as a global bank with a local lens. 

To register your interest in coming along, click here.

Alex Sanderson was the main attraction as the Sale Sharks Business Club, sponsored by Equals Money, wrapped up for another season with a special breakfast networking event. 

The Sale Director of Rugby joined former Sharks, England and British and Irish Lions star Mark Cueto on stage at Bentley Manchester’s showroom in Knutsford, Cheshire, on July 23rd. 

The pair, who played together at Sale, looked back at the 2024/25 season and looked ahead to how Alex and the players were preparing for the 2025/26 campaign. 

They also covered the mental side of the game and how Alex prepares the Sharks players by introducing a unique theme into each training week. 

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Former Sharks and England winger Mark Cueto hosted a panel of very special guests in central Manchester to take a trip down British and Irish Lions memory lane.

An unprecedented six Sharks were part of the Lions squad in 2005, with Cueto joining Andy Titterell, Andrew Sheridan, Charlie Hodgson, Jason Robinson and Jason White on a daunting tour of New Zealand.

Guests found out what it means to be a Lion; what goes into the preparation for a six-week tour; how a squad made up of four different nations comes together to form an elite team; what qualities the players rely on to make sure they make the most of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, AND what goes on off the pitch during the six-week tour.

The British and Irish Lions is truly the pinnacle of our sport and with another tour, this time to Australia, coming up this summer, this is an event not to be missed.

Former Commonwealth champion boxer Stacey Copeland, Team GB wheelchair basketball star Robyn Love and Sharks Women’s players Gwen Pyrs and Georgie Perris-Redding shared their inspirational stories and discussed the changing landscape of women’s sport in our second Business Club event, held at Heywood Rd ahead of our women’s fixture against Harlequins in January, 2024.

 It was inspirational, motivational and a day to remember as the event coincided with our highest Heywood Rd attendance of the season.

Thank you for joining us in Manchester city centre on the 26th November. It was an emotional morning to remember as we heard about Ed’s incredible fearlessness and rollercoaster journey from packing down as a number 8 to creating the award-winning documentary, The Mountain Within Me.

Ed brilliantly told his life-changing story and re-capped the past seven years, in which he went from professional rugby player to being told he would never walk again, to watching himself on the big screen scaling the Himalayas.