Sale Sharks 41 Exeter Chiefs 5! Premiership Rugby playoffs congestion increase after visitors thrashed

Lawrence Dallaglio and Ugo Monye weigh in on the weekend's controversy.

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But an errant pass over O'Flaherty's head denies the winger a chance to get on the scoreboard.

It was a similar incident to Hodge in the first half, as a try would have been scored if he missed it, but this time there is no yellow card.

It looked like O'Flaherty was set to race forty metres to the line but the flanker came across to take him over the touchline.

A huge shift from these two Sharks stars today.

Curry and Quirke with particularly destructive tackles as Exeter are denied reward for spell of territorial advantage.

This time Ford's kick does go over.

He didn't have to wait long for the try. Opoku-Fordjour with an initial burst and then the ball was spread wide left and Roebuck was there to run over the try-line and this time touch down.

He ran onto Beaumont's long kick and, with Woodburn struggling with injury, Roebuck raced clear and kicked perfectly into the goal area but then muffed the simple part dropping the ball before touching down.

Ford smashed his kick under the uprights to everyone's surprise.

The replacement scrum half took a quick tap penalty with Exeter unable to tackle him and he slips on the ground, before recovering to dive over by the right post.

He is replaced by Pearson.

Slade is wildly wide of the target with his kick.

At last the Chiefs get on the board a long pass out goes to Feyi Waboso and he shrugs off a couple of tackles before touching down.

The game has gone even better for Sale since he left.

The battle for top four gets even more congested.

Ford is successful with another kick.

It looked a fairly innocuous high kick towards the touchline on the 10m line but Roebuck won it and spun the challenge of Cairns than ran 40m for the try.