Salford in decent form against an (improving) Widnes side who are yet to record an away win this season.

Nailed on defeat then?

Probably.



This surely is the last chance for a tilt at the top 8. Beat Widnes, beat Hull, Bradford deducted 6+ points, and they are in with a shout.

Bradford won't get any points deducted until next season. It's all pipe dreams

Depends on what happens to the club. If they do go bust, points will come off by the end of the regular season. Then the newco starts from scratch.

Aren't the RFL loaning them the money to ensure they get to the end of the season though?

Plus we'd need Hudds, Hull to lose 3 games and KR 2 games whilst we win all of ours.

This week
us v widnes - us win
hull derby - fc win
Hudds v wakey - hudds win

week after
saints v hudds - hudds lose
hull v us - Hull win
widnes v kr _ kr win

week after
wigan v hull - hull lose
London v us - us win
Hudds v catalan - catalan win
kr v leeds - leeds win

week after
us v hudds - Hudds win
bradford v kr - Bradford win
Hull v catalan - Catalan win

so thats us 2 wins
hull 2 wins
kr 1 win
Hudds 2 wins

It aint gonna happen

Until the end of the regular season, yes. The playoffs are effectively a different competition.

We need to beat Widnes and Hull next up. Then take it from there.

ANY TEAM NEWS YET?

Big big game this week and one we can't afford to lose. For what its worth I don't think we will make the 8, but to have any chance what so ever this game is massive and if we beat Widnes, the Hull and London games also become huge. I for one hope that if we do manage to beat Widnes, we take an half decent following to the KC for once and get behind the team because despite what's going on off the field the players have played some decent stuff for the most part of the season and with a bit more luck we could have been sitting comfortably in the top 8 already.

An opportunity to match the 3 consecutive wins - which sets up the game at Hull,nicely;and the opportunity for the first 'double' of the season on Friday night.
With Mr Ah Van a serious threat,a nice little test for our right side defence.( Wonder if Sean Gleeson plays )
School holidays,I think,with some decent weather,and the best crowd of the season possible.
Then extra rest for our players while Hull FC play in a derby on Monday night with Hull having lots of comings and goings with their players and with a number of injuries.
I hope we finish the month off in style,win by more than a few points and restrict the opponents to less than double figures.( Friday night or at Hull,but in both games would be better )

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Gleeson back for Gibson looking at the squad

Massive game for us, to make 8, a game we should win! A big win would help our points difference because it could actually come down to that looking at the fixtures for all the clubs immediately above us

7 games left, 5 wins probably enough to see us in the 8. Wigan & Leeds away maybe a step too far but the others are winnable

Widnes (H)
Hull (A)
London (A)
Huddersfield (H)
Wigan (A)
Leeds (A)
Wakefield (H)

Minimum of 3 wins, But 5 is definitely do-able!

The official Widnes site has it that their supporters have been allocated the unreserved seating in the East Stand.Anyone know the reason for that ?

I was wondering the same, on the ticket it says that we're in the East stand with unreserved seating.

They can't surely be only opening two stands??

Dunno with your groupon offer there going to be a few more Widnes fans than would have turned up on a Friday Night.

Looking forward to Friday - Widnes have really improved recently, certainly showing up the SKY team's "they havn't got the standard needed for Super League" line as patronising cr*p.

I do think we will have too much in attack for them to handle though. Just hope we can defend well and that the beer tent hasn't blown away.... Be great to have a Reds "club" bar in the ground.

Having experienced a bad day,courtesy of rumours,I have been made aware of the following -[iIn Salford,only 17 of the 56 G4S staff due at another Olympic team hotel could be bothered to present themselves for work.[/i
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As G4S provide the security,maybe they are short of numbers.

Or,because Widnes supporters have an all-seater stadium the club are being sympathetic to your delicacies.
( What would Kurt Sorensen think ? )

Thanks for that, I was panicking a bit, I thought maybe we haven't sold many tickets so it wouldn't be worth opening another stand.
Slightly off topic, would you say parking in the official car park is better than the Trafford Centre and catching a bus over? Thanks in advance.

Whatever you do don't park on the club car park. Either use the park and ride from Trafford or park at either eccles amateur rugby club or at Barton airport.
Dontsay iI never warned you

Too many forwards in the squad tonight!

Hope I'm proved wrong but think will be down the middle tonight!

What? Even with our usual backline of: Patten, Broughton, Moon, Gleeson, Williams, Holsdworth?

I seriously doubt we'll be playing one up rugby down the middle. If we do we'll get beat, simple!

0-24 at H/T - what's going on ???!!!
Think you'll win the 2nd half, but..........
Salford have an 'outside' chance of the play offs, Widnes are only playing for pride..amazing scoreline.

you were saying? 40-0 now, can't see them coming anywhere near back from this

I've always been rubbish on the 'coupons' !

I've seen us take some hammerings over the years but for me tonight is as bad as it gets. Yeah ok ref gave em territory early on but they still scored the points. Gleeson's effort for the 4th should ensure he never wears the shirt again. I did expect some reaction in the second half although conceding another 16 points was not what I had in mind. Hang your heads reds. Top 8 has gone. If you can't be d turning up,neither can I. See you next season.

What now - after last night's result?