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Last season’s losing Premiership semi-finalists meet on Friday at the wrong end of the table, hoping for a change in fortunesLast season’s losing Premiership semi-finalists lock horns on Friday night with both sides still trying to rediscover their spark. Bristol are 12th in the table, Sale just three places higher, and while Harlequins demonstrated last term that the play-offs should not yet be counted out for either team, the new year cannot bring about a change in fortunes quickly enough.Granted, Sale won their last match – against injury-hit Wasps – but consistency has been a chronic problem for a side who have not been able to string two wins together, having been widely tipped to continue their upward trajectory in Alex Sanderson’s first full season in charge. Bristol, meanwhile, got off to a bad start, initially suggesting that last term’s semi-final defeat by Harlequins was not entirely out of the system. Increasingly, however, they have looked a busted flush, even if scorelines have improved in narrow defeats by Leicester and Exeter in recent weeks. Continue reading...