On paper, we should win this by 16 in my view, I suspect betting wise we will have a 6 point start.

A lot depends on who is fit and how they play I suppose, with Snitch having missed a few and playing in the 9's tonight, I suspect that is to get some running in his legs to play Friday.

In my view if it is within 6 points, then Salford will get over us, if we win it will be by 16+. So my punt would be us with a start.

Agree with Towns88 though, massive game.

Should be a great game, both sides more than capable of winning this one. As a Salford fan I'd say that home advantage might just pip it for us, although we are notoriously bad at getting 3 wins on the bounce.

Plus, it would be nice to get some decent forum discussion going after being bombarded on our forums with all kinds of Warrington bellends. God knows what it would have been like if they'd won...

Here's to a great game on Friday.

ive never been to salford before so any ideas of how long it will take to drive there from cas and where is best place to park?

Shouldn't take too long, but beware the Motorway traffic on Friday evenings. As for parking, there's a few organised car parks around the ground which are fine, and most of the side -streets that are not coned-off are also fine. Don't listen to people being worried about their cars in Salford, I've been going for over 25 years and never seen any problems.

Just to echo what the butcher has said, the whole don't park in the street thing is b*ll*cks. I've never seen any trouble with regards to parked cars either, I'm not saying it won't happen, but there's just as much as it happening anywhere.

With regards to the game - well its huge for both teams. I'm not carried away with our 2 good victories because I've watched Salford too long. We've not won 3 on the bounce since 2006 and its just like us to get beat in a very winnable home game.

Anyway Safe journey over and heres to Salford win

Just ignore the Wire fans. They forget they once were as crap as we both are and think they've been a big club all their life. When they lose to us little uns it doesn't half hurt them! lol


The game should be a cracker. No doubt it'll get little thought though from anyone else in rugby league but it's a big game at a big time for both of us. Last league meeting for us at your place too so i'll be coming along one last time. Need to knock off an hour early too on friday and praying the traffic isn't too bad. Never had any trouble parking in Salford and I'd say you chance it where ever you go just the same. The first time I ever went to Salford I got lost and ended up getting to the game about five mins before kick off. I dumped my car and dashed for the game. When the game finished all the Cas fans went one way and all the Salford fans went another. Guess which way I'd parked my car! Turned out i'd left it in a not too pleasant street and had to wade through all the Salford fans to get to it. Needless to say I was pooping my pants. Car was in perfect nick, Salford fans were great in defeat and not a scratch on me or the car! lol

Anybody know if isa and youngquest are going to be fit, would make a big difference to us if they were. Hopefully clark and holmes will get to play both fully rested and raring to go.

only 1 change for friday, youngquest in for owen. glad hes finally back!

Cass are in a bubble after the draw with wigan but so are Salford with their win over the wires.... whos bubble will burst on Friday?????

Anyones game this one,,, same as Wigan and Saints............Hope Hull do the wolves...

Their coach openly admitted that they slowed the game down to beat Warrington. I dare say we'll be subjected to much of the same and rising above it will be essential, especially since a number of teams aren't being punished for it as the operational rules dictate they should be.

from Andy Wilson in the Grauniad:

James Child, the referee who allowed Bradford to score one of their two tries against Saints on the seventh tackle, has been dropped from this weekend's round of Super League fixtures. He will be a touch-judge in Friday's game between Salford and Castleford.

And HKR v Warrington

should be a good game,especially after our win at wire,and a few more floating reds fans might bother to turn up,ill go for a very close 26-22 to the reds,and like mention several times already....the whole parking thing is a myth!!! dont even waste 3 quid parking in a car park,you will be fine.

Massive game friday. We lose and theres a big chance we will be out of the play offs in 3 weeks as salford have a couple of winnable games. We win and we go 6 points above 9th with better GD too with 9 to play.(as long as bulls lose) Could make or break our season. Huge game.

So he gets dropped, yet we still have to suffer.

Seems the 'pool' of officials is a mere puddle in reality.

any onje know if its on the radio i'm not finishing work till 7.30 so want to put it on as soon as i get in and not have to faff about.

You'll be able to get it via the web on GMR

Fancy us by 16 today, for no good reason.

I think we will play a conservative game and could be behind at half time by a score, but I think we have started to understand our strengths.

No logic to this, Salford are a decent side in decent form - but woke up feeling like we are good by a couple of scores.

Get in. Hard fought win and we are now 6 clear of 9th with a superior GD so basically 7 points. Surely enough for make the 8.

1 point off 5th. 3 points off 4th



If it stays like this we go to Catalan again in play offs. Hope they lose tomorrow though and it will make for a cracker next week as we could leap frog them into 6th.

Thought it was an enjoyable game (not just because we won). Two sides who went at it to win the game with effort for the full 80 mins. Both had good spells and both could have won it. From our point of view, If we'd done a few more simple things right we could have won it with a bigger score. We seemed to drop the ball on the 2nd or 3rd tackle all of our own fault and not force Salford back with simple kicks to the corner on the last etc. We gave Salford an invitation too many times and it's something Terry and the lads need to sort. We could so easily have lost the game, I feared Salford could run the length with some of the guys they have. Not sure who i'd give my Cas MOM to as there were plenty of players who had a good game. Good to see McGoldrick put in another good game, if we can get his passion and enthusiasm of old he's a definite match winner for the future with some of those short passes out wide! Ferres did well again, some massive tackles put in. Rangi's 40-20 was superb and I don't think anyone expected Danny to go for the line and win it for us, quality. Glad I managed to get to Salford again for one last time. It's an old ground, but has great character. Look forward to visiting in their new home and hopefully a few more Reds fans can get behind them as even for a rainy friday night it was a poor turn out (not a dig at the fans who are going to the games btw). Saints v Wigan? P'ah, we got the better deal tonight! Proper game of rugby.

Really pleased with the win tonight. Said how important it was for us to win prior to it. Dug in well and reaped the rewards. Ferres, Goldie, Orr, Widders stood out for me, but Rangi's gamebreaking 40:20 was sensational.

Amazing isn't it? If Saints hadn't scored in the last second we would now be in 4th!

I know mate. We could of well been top if we didnt stop playing at quins wakey and Saints. Nevermind though. Still not got a full squad and we are fighting hard for our wins. Would love to pick up 2 points next week in France.