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Hooker Jibulu signs new Sale deal
DIR By: Rugbycat
Date: July 31, 2026, 4:08 am
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Nathan Jibulu has signed a new contract with Sale Sharks aiming
to keep him at the club until 2030.
The 23-year-old hooker, whose performances for the Sharks in his
first season earned him a call-up to the England training squad
in June, played 23 games with Sale after joining from Harlequins
last summer.
Jibulu told the Sale website, external: "We know the season
didn't go as we wanted but the atmosphere has been really good
and so many young lads got a lot of experience in big games.
"It's so exciting to think where lads like Alfie Longstaff and
Ralph McEachran could be in two or three years.
"With the signings we've made this season, we're building a
squad that can win titles and I want to be a part of that."
Sale director of rugby Alex Sanderson said: "For all the aspects
of the game with ball in hand that seem to be evolving, there
are certain fundamentals that you have to keep. Nathan gives you
quality in both aspects.
"When he has the ball in his hands, things are going to happen
with his skill and his feet, and I haven't seen many, if any,
players with more power."
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Re: Hooker Jibulu signs new Sale deal
DIR By: Quinten Poulsen
Date: July 31, 2026, 5:06 am
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> “Sale Sharks star Nathan Jibulu has admitted he’s completely
captivated by Salford, telling us: ‘Honestly, the place just
does something to me. I can’t explain it.’
> Meanwhile, new signings Joe Marchant, Nicky Smith and Cebo
Dlamini have revealed their own equally intense local obsessions
– Marchant can’t stop thinking about the MetroLink’s soothing
‘doors closing’ announcement, Smith is deeply moved by the way
the rain hits the Arndale Centre roof, and Dlamini claims he’s
never felt more alive than when staring at a half-eaten black
pudding in a Northern Quarter café.”
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Re: Hooker Jibulu signs new Sale deal
DIR By: FatQuin
Date: July 31, 2026, 5:15 am
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Just glad the kid was able to join the club of his boyhood
dreams. Will all knew he’d end up at Sale as he did nothing but
mention them in the years before he moved up there.
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Re: Hooker Jibulu signs new Sale deal
DIR By: Yareet
Date: July 31, 2026, 5:27 am
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Jokes aside, this would never have needed to happen if Ewan
Ashman had told us he was going to disappear to Scotland. It was
always very likely but we could have jettisoned him and kept
Langdon.
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Re: Hooker Jibulu signs new Sale deal
DIR By: Rugbycat
Date: July 31, 2026, 6:25 am
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He is not actually the loss that i thought he would be, a hooker
who is weak at set pieces is a bit of a liability, also trying
to eat your opponents is not optimal.
He is a bit like Alfie Barbeary in his early hooker days at
Wasps, before becoming a flanker, the two young hookers we have
coming through and Sam Riley, there was actually logic in
letting him go as we seem to well covered in the position.
England future wise, Kepu Tuipulotu again to me looks to have
far more potential, and can actually throw in as well as be
devastating in the open, and not by just running into people.
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Re: Hooker Jibulu signs new Sale deal
DIR By: Yareet
Date: July 31, 2026, 6:54 am
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--- Quote from: Rugbycat link ---
>
> He is not actually the loss that i thought he would be, a
hooker who is weak at set pieces is a bit of a liability, also
trying to eat your opponents is not optimal.
>
>
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My hope is that working with Dorian West and Neil Briggs will
improve his darts. They've done it before and there were more
signs for optimism at the end of the season.
It will also help to have another season with LCD and (dare I
hope for) working with the same jumpers week on week.
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Re: Hooker Jibulu signs new Sale deal
DIR By: Rocker
Date: July 31, 2026, 7:12 am
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LCD's darts have never been top draw....
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Re: Hooker Jibulu signs new Sale deal
DIR By: Rugbycat
Date: July 31, 2026, 7:49 am
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--- Quote from: Yareet link ---
>
> My hope is that working with Dorian West and Neil Briggs will
improve his darts. They've done it before and there were more
signs for optimism at the end of the season.
>
> It will also help to have another season with LCD and (dare I
hope for) working with the same jumpers week on week.
>
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I am not sure that LCD would be my first choice mentor for
throwing in.
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Re: Hooker Jibulu signs new Sale deal
DIR By: Quinten Poulsen
Date: July 31, 2026, 8:58 am
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--- Quote from: Rugbycat link ---
>
> He is not actually the loss that i thought he would be, a
hooker who is weak at set pieces is a bit of a liability, also
trying to eat your opponents is not optimal.
>
> He is a bit like Alfie Barbeary in his early hooker days at
Wasps, before becoming a flanker, the two young hookers we have
coming through and Sam Riley, there was actually logic in
letting him go as we seem to well covered in the position.
>
> England future wise, Kepu Tuipulotu again to me looks to have
far more potential, and can actually throw in as well as be
devastating in the open, and not by just running into people.
>
>
>
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I'm not sure Barbeary even played a serious game at hooker for
Wasps.
Besides which, I think you are sugar coating this. Jibulu was a
cracking prospect when he started getting game time with us, and
I see no reason why he shouldn't still be seen as a cracking
prospect. Trying to scoff opposition players isn't terribly nice
but doesn't nullify his playing qualities in any way unless
discipline becomes an issue for him as time goes by.
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Re: Hooker Jibulu signs new Sale deal
DIR By: Yareet
Date: July 31, 2026, 9:19 am
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--- Quote from: Quinten Poulsen link ---
>
> I'm not sure Barbeary even played a serious game at hooker for
Wasps.
>
>
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October 2018 31mins in a PRC game at 16
August 2020 14mins in a PREM game at 16 (that would be during
covid and may be when teams were trying to put out two teams a
week)
Then someone realised he's not pretty enough for front row
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