Well deserved MOTM brilliant all be it against poor opposition.

High praise from KC on Sky who apparently, and I quote, " doesn't want to bum him up too much, what with him being a young boy."

Interesting comments.

Always rated Greenwood. I actually tipped him to be the best of the Young forwards we have had come thru.

He has the ability to run good lines and bust tackles.

If Kieron says he's going to be the next superstar that's good enough for me

Thompson also played very well with some hard graft. The young ones in the pack are looking very strong and adding impact to the team.

He reminds me of Jamie Peacock when he was Joe's age

Never seen a player run the lines this lad does on a regular basis. Breaks the line constantly.

What a fantastic prospect it is to have a pack rotation of Richards, Thompson, Greenwood and Savelio - all of them are looking a class above

Agreed pal, huge talents.

Greenwood has done very well. He didn't make many Saints fans' 17's in pre-season but he's trained hard, done everything asked of him and he's been given an opportunity in the back-row. He's physically much more solid now and runs some good lines. Looks like he has decent pace as well and he's opening teams up and is making breaks down the left side.

Interesting selections ahead for KC with regards to the back-row; lots to consider, lots of different attributes and abilities to select from as well. Good issue to have.

As well as being talented, Greenwood is BIG. He's likely to really beef up over the next couple of years, too.

As well as all the excellent running, did we see how aggressive he was in defence!?

The boys done good.

Was very impressive yesterday.

I recall they used to say Wilkin runs great lines, so lets just remember he will have top games like last night but there will be others were he is less prominent. But if he keeps working hard there can be no complaints.

I mentioned him about three years ago when he played in the academy game against Wigan at Orrell. He was outstanding that day and has started this season really well. I was surprised he didn't get a bit more game time last season. Did he have an injury?

That happens with all young players and we as spectators have to show a bit of patience with them.

Class act must of been mom last night.
You won't have an easier game all season - Well played good luck against the Souths!

No. As with the year before, Brown played the youngsters a lot early on in the season but then more sparingly towards the end. The manner of which implied some sort of purpose, but I can't be sure.

Yes i can see that, rangy forward who runs good lines.He will be a real handful when he fills out a bit more

How old is he?

21

Good youth management!

He was giving the kids the most amount of first team experience he could in games which are the least success-or-bust.

Perfectly rational.

Easy to say in hindsight, but no one can be completely sure of what was going through Brown's noggin.

Cracking performance from Mighty Joe Young. Hard to tell how good given Salford are a bag of turd, but impressive still.

Brown knew what he was doing and managed the kids really well. Percy is a fine example of that when he took him out when he started to struggle.

He's shown glimpse before the salford performance but hadn't put it all into one game until Thursday.

I agree, Brown knew how to handle our young players. Thompson and Richards were perfect examples. He played them sparingly at first, and put them in and out of the team at the right time throughout the season. Then he had the balls to put them both in for the play offs and Grand Final ahead of the more experienced, but less useful Laffranchi. The only mistake he made was dropping Swift for Dawson, but again thankfully he put Swift back in.

Brown did some great work with our young players and turned our recruitment from shambolic to fantastic in just two years, and we're now reaping the rewards of his fantastic work.

Hard to tell given it was a preseason friendly, but he made a mess of the Wigan pack in that game

Again I don't think that was a mistake.

Swift was getting turned around in defence at that time. Had he just left Swift there, more and more teams would have targeted that side and it could have gone from being an issue to being a mental issue. Remember Kevin Penny, a talent going forwards, but left to flounder in defence and had his confidence and abilities blown away, it''s taken the best part of 5 years to turn that around.

Swift was rightly dropped, got time to fix up that part of his game and is now back just as lethal going forwards but more solid in defensive duties.

I'm also very much against having favourites and playing them what ever their performance. Players should always have the pressure to play for the jersey and not feel from day 1 that they are a dead cert to play come what may.