As Edgeley Park is owned by Sale Sharks, problems with the pitch have arisen from having both football and Rugby Union on the same surface.
Following the announcement of his inclusion in the All Blacks squad for the 2007 Rugby World Cup, it was announced on 23 July 2007 that McAlister would be joining Guinness Premiership side Sale Sharks after the World Cup on a two-year deal.
•
In 2009 after two seasons with Sale in the Guinness Premiership, McAlister returned to New Zealand, where he resigned with North Harbour and the Blues, with the intention of regaining his place in the national side.
San Jose Sharks | Salé | Sale | Sale Sharks | Point of sale | Sale, Victoria | Sale, Greater Manchester | Une sale histoire | Southland Sharks | Souls for Sale | Soul for Sale | Jamie Salé | Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks | A Gun for Sale | Tony Sale | Sheffield Sharks | Sharks | sale | point of sale | My Tehran for Sale | Miracles for Sale | George Sale | Education Not for Sale | David Sale | Card Sharks | Beatles for Sale | St Paul's Cathedral, Sale | Short sale | Sheriff's sale | sheriff’s sale |
Dickinson moved to Sale Sharks for the 2011/2012 season, joining international team-mates Fraser McKenzie and Richie Vernon.
He scored his first Northampton Saints try against Sale Sharks after some excellent work by Jamie Elliott to make the score 12-0 in a game that finished 33-14 to Northampton.
An injury to Peter Stringer early in the 2005/2006 season meant O'Leary had a chance to play, making his Heineken Cup debut against Sale Sharks in October 2005.
Tony Diprose (Saracens), Steve Ojomoh (Bath), Richard Pool-Jones (Stade Francais Paris), Ben Sturnham (Saracens), Ben Clarke (Richmond), Pat Sanderson (Sale Sharks), Lewis Moody (Leicester Tigers).
Saracens 7s and London Irish 7s qualified from Group A, played at The Stoop on Friday 13 July; London Welsh 7s and Sale Sharks 7s qualified from Group B, played at Edgeley Park on Friday 20 July; and Gloucester 7s and Bath 7s qualified from Group C, played at Kingsholm on Thursday 26 July.
All have now moved on: Andi, Chris and Chris to Sale Sharks while Ian has gone to London Irish, where he joined another former West Park prop, Mike Worsley, who himself received his first full England cap against Italy in the 2003 Six Nations tournament.