“In a pool match, Sale were trounced by Toulouse 77-7. There is nothing lucky about all those 7s for Sale. It was an utter humiliation and not just on the scoreboard,” he wrote in his Irish Times column.
“Regrettably, in away pool stage games of the Champions Cup, many English clubs, including Sale, now run up the white flag and surrender these matches by selecting a second XV.
“With only a 50 per cent winning ratio in the pool stages and a points differential of -38, it is a fact that under the old six game pool system, Sale would not have qualified for a quarter-final.”
Williams described Sale as lacking “morality, decency and respect for the game” and slammed their attitude to arguably the toughest club competition in the world.
“While clubs that select weakened teams for away matches deserve the beltings they get, from a personal perspective, as someone who deeply enjoyed and respected the significant challenges of the old Heineken Cup, I hope Leinster smash Sale,” he wrote.
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