Rugby union: talking points from the weekend’s Premiership action

Sale’s Will Addison stakes claim for Saxons spot, Thomas Waldrom reaps rewards of forward-thinking Exeter Chiefs and Wasps continue to dazzleThere was no way of avoiding this particular talking point. When the beaten-up but dried-out turf of Welford Road stages an exhilarating eight-try, 65-point classic such as this, with Islanders in Leicester colours running this way and that (Adam Thompstone was a lone Anglo-Saxon outside Leicester’s No10), you know there must be something in it. Add in the average of 60 points across all four games on a sunny Saturday, and the case for summer rugby become…