Sale Sharks and England winger Tom Roebuck has dedicated his future to his boyhood membership by signing a brand new two-year contract.
The 24-year-old, who started his rugby journey at Chester Rugby Membership earlier than becoming a member of the Sharks Academy, made his first staff debut towards Worcester within the Premiership Rugby Cup in 2018.
He has gone on to make virtually 100 Sharks appearances, scoring 39 tries, together with six on this season’s Gallagher Premiership.
Roebuck made his England debut towards Japan within the 2024 summer time tour and scored his first worldwide attempt towards the identical opposition at Twickenham within the latest Autumn Nations Sequence. This week he was named in England’s squad for the upcoming Guinness Six Nations.
Roebuck stated: “I’ve grown up in and round Manchester and I’ve been on the membership since I used to be 14 or 15. I’m taking part in each week with a gaggle of shut mates who I’ve performed with for a very long time and that’s what makes this membership so particular.
“I’m loving it right here however I can’t say we’re dwelling the dream as a result of we haven’t received something but. We’ve been shut twice and it nonetheless hurts that we didn’t handle to transform our possibilities.
“The coaches have a transparent plan in thoughts and we’re all shopping for into it and whether or not it’s this yr or subsequent yr, I do know that as a gaggle we’re able to taking the subsequent step collectively and profitable the Premiership.
“My brother comes to each sport, my mother and father are season ticket holders and it means the world to play for a membership that’s so vital to my complete household. Staying right here was a no brainer.”
Sale Sharks Director of Rugby Alex Sanderson stated: “We’re completely buzzing to have secured Tom for at the least the subsequent two years. He’s received a lot expertise, he’s certainly one of our personal and I firmly consider that is the perfect place for his growth and I do know he feels the identical manner.
“The development we’ve seen from Tom in each side of his sport within the final three years has been unimaginable and he’s been rewarded with the worldwide recognition he completely deserves.
“He’s a large a part of our current and our future and I hope his greatest years in a Sale Sharks shirt are nonetheless to come back.”
