Really looking forward to Friday night, big game against a top team where for the first time in a long time we are going into it with a few wins behind us. Hopefully it will produce a big crowd, sure Leeds will bring a load with them, so lets get behind the lads!

Any news on Locke, will he be fit? I know tasi will be back which will be a massive boost.

And will Leeds be without Sinfield? Not sure when the hearing will be after his headbutt......

This game represents a real litmus test of our progression. three wins on the bounce two of which were away has really injected belief in the players and fans. We played Saints i think third game in after winning the first two...and we got thrashed. Hopefully we have learned and improved since then. It feels like we never beat Leeds (bar one away win a few seasons back. Win this and the confidence will soar.

If Locke is fit does Evalds deserve to be dropped?

In the blink of an eye. Evalds has been fantastic and has been a great stand in, but Locke is different gravy.

We are going to win on Friday, this squad is now looking the real deal.

Just seen Locke and he looks very ginger with his groin and the exercises they were having him do.

It's nice too have such a good young back up in Evalds and also at a different time if we'd have signed Locke we would have risked him over the last two games and risked crocking him for a much longer period, it just shows for me the much more professional manner things are under the Docs people.

Will be nice too play Leeds and not be cacking it because of the pace they have at the back, we have the backs now too match that I just though worry about the forward power,

Cracking game either way.

Have been watching Salford since the early 70s and can probably count the victories I've witnessed against Leeds on one hand. I'm confident about this one though. The way we are playing we'll give anyone a game and I thought we matched them for 65 minutes at Headingley. We are a completely different animal now as we have pace in the backs. Realistically, we can probably only afford one more defeat if we wanna make the eight. I'm hoping its not on Friday. Coyd.

If were going to beat Leeds we need the intensity we've shown in spells for the full 80. Yesterday we didn't start until the second half, against Hull FC we switched off after 60 minutes so that consistency is the key. If we fall asleep against Leeds they'll punish us.

Think it was Leeds away where our lack of pace was painfully exposed, despite a reasonable performance. Hopefully we can give them a decent game now we have made a few changes to the squad. Should be a decent crowd as well.

Sinfield being out is a massive plus for us, just hope Locke is fit, but if he isn't evalds would do a job.

It's only a five day turn around for us though and Leeds have had an extra 3 days to recover and prepare. That's a massive advantage for them.

I think Josh Griffin and Matty Ashurst are in trouble though for their part in the brawl on Sunday? Both have been going great for us recently and any ban would be a big loss to us

Early guilty pleas for them? Ashhurst is only a grade A according to the disciplinary article on the rfl site...though its reported as B. Egp will see them both right.

Tommy Lee is going to be a big miss I think, 2 charges so he's going to get a ban. He's been our only hooker for the past 3 matches, would have been nice to have him rotating with Tomkin's against Leeds...is Tomkin's even fit?

Owen?

I wondered the same myself, look at getting him back for one game and for him personally what better chance too get himself firmly in the frame the obvious vacancy in the hooking role next season.

It would certainly show how the lad might handle pressure!!

When was the last time we won 4 on the bounce???
Should be a good match friday night.

If or should i say when we beat leeds on friday, mabey the press will wake up and start to give us some paper space.

Off the top of my head I'd say 1997, we won our opening 5 games (Cas, Oldham, PSG, Halifax & Sheffield)



No, let's say if! Lets not get to carried away now!

Talent Spotter, it certainly was Leeds away that outlined our lack of pace. Rangi made about 3 clear breaks and got caught by the Leeds scrambling defence whereas with the pace we now have I think a couple would have been converted. On the flip side there were a number of broken field breaks by Leeds I feel would have been stopped with todays team. It just shows how far we've come since then.
As an aside I thought it was the Leeds game I saw improvements in the teams structure an plays.

With lee missing on Friday and if say tomkins is injured who will play hooker could they play fages there with evalds at 7 and locke fb (if fit)

Hopefully we'll do ourselves proud whatever the result. I've nipped over to the Leeds forum and they seem to have grouped their knobbers into one thread (Predictably about MK) I thought it would be a great idea for us here to stick an 'Idiot Bait' thread on here to keep all the chimps in one place. Stop them spilling over into genuine threads.

Failing that, it's worth nipping over there just so you can finish this weeks Koukash Bingo card.

Butcher , it seems Leeds Based knobbers aren't just limited to b'internet forums , seems to have spilled over on the Sky Backchat.
[urlhttp://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/rugby-league/9391231/super-league-back-chat-ep-23[/url
Comments from supposed respected Publishers & journalists ...making Cas fans sound educated.

The amount of tongue firmly teasing-off nuggets of Sinfield's passage clart is truly nauseating. He could have slashed Dorn's throat with a shard of glass and they would have defended him due to his 'Unblemished blitz-type Sir Kev' tripe.

As for the rest of the program, usual opinionated guff especially off Lockwood who does his best to fit a stereotypical dig-your-heels-in-to-change Yorkshire muppet.

[url=http://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/news/local/press-publisher-danny-lockwood-sentenced-for-assault-1-6462148To be fair to "respected journalist" Danny Lockwood, you can see why he'd sympathise with someone charged for a headbutt[/url

The world has officially turned on it's head when Stevo seems to be the one talking the most sense. Rodney (as Stevo wonderfully calls him) really should be working for a Red Top with the terribly sensationalist views and comments he spews forth.

Yet another example in my eyes why SKY and rugby league are not the match made in heaven many seem too think.