Jay Walton has been excellent. Certainly i wouldn't be worried if he was in the starting line up. He's been excellent in pee season.

To be honest if ilestyn plays on form then there might be a few fringe players getting their chance if the pre season games are anything to go by.

Very young backline but frighteningly quick, I'd feel much happier if Griffin or Sa'u was there adding a little more grunt but all in all not bad.

Yes agreed my perfect backline would be Locke, BJB, J.Griffin, Sau, Johnson. You've got pace and power one of the strongest in super league surely.

For me you need to get MCB onto the field, he has the potential to run most teams ragged with his pace and I'd not bet against him finishing as the highest try scorer if he gets his chance. From what I've seen they have worked on bulking him up in the off season which is what he was lacking.

MCB is certainly better going forward but i'd have Griffin just on better defence. End of the day it's all opinions whoever plays will not let us down come 7th Feb! Bring it on.

Locke came off against Swinton and we thought he seemed to be holding his groin, I hope it`s nothing more than precautionary otherwise it could be a disrupted season. Not seen anything anywhere so it may be my pessimistic Salford way of looking at things!

That said I have no problem with Evalds stepping up and as others have said about trying to fit MCB in it makes a change that we have such good replacements to step in rather than making do with 2nd rowers fitting in at Centre.