I'll be there (supporting Wigan

) Stuart Fielden is expecting to make his long awaited return to RL.

But, congratulations to Salford you've done brilliantly this season. I do think the play offs will be harder though as the dual reg/loan players come back to their teams.

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The under 20's match report is up on the official website.

Does anybody know the dates of the play offs?

2011 Season Playoff Series went like this:

1st Round
1st v 4th, 5th v 8th, 2nd v 3rd, 6th v 7th
(6th & 8th place teams lose and drop out, 3rd and 4th place teams both lost but go through to next round with home ties to come, 1st and second place teams both won and go though to semi final with home ties to come, )
Weekend commencing 10th Sept 2011

2nd Round
4th v 5th, 3rd v 7th
(4th and 7th place teams win and go through to semis with away ties)
Weekend commencing 17th September, 2011

Semi Final
1st v 4th, 2nd v 7th
(1st and 2nd place teams win go through to final)
Weekend commencing 24th September

Final
Wigan (1st) 24 - 16 Warrington (2nd)


As it stands at the moment the fixtures would be:-

1st round
Warrington v St Helens, Wigan v Widnes, =#FF0000Salford v =#4000BFLeeds, Wakefield v Hull FC
Weekend commencing 9th September, 2012 ?

WOW....that took some working out!!

Richards, Prescott, Flower and Fielden all playing for Wigans 20's tonight according to their board. Hopefully we'll stand up and put in a good showing and come away top of the league. C'mon lads!

Richards isn't playing tonight but will be in the first team on Monday (he played in the U20's at Wire) on Saturday.

Wigan won 72 - 16, but it was a very strong Wigan side. Murphy, Russell, Thornley, Gelling, Powell, Fielden, Logan Tomkins, Prescott,Flower and Lloyd have all played first team rugby.

Wouldn't be surprised if the score was summat similar in the first team game on Monday night.

Men against boys really. A young Salford side featuring a few of the 18s against an experienced Wigan outfit. Cracking try from Brotherton though.

Week 1 – week ending 09/09/12
Game 1 – 1 v 4
Game 2 – 2 v 3
Game 3 – 5 v 8
Game 4 – 6 v 7

Week 2 – week ending 16/09/12
Game 5 - Highest ranked losers from Game 1 or 2 v Lowest ranked winners from Game 3 or 4
Game 6 - Lowest ranked losers from Game 1 or 2 v Highest ranked winners from Game 3 or 4

Week 3 – week ending 23/09/12
Game 7 – highest rank winners from Game 1 or 2 v Club Call winners from Game 5 or 6
Game 8 – Lowest rank winners from Game 1 or 2 v Non selected team Club Call from Game 5 or 6

Week 4 – week ending 30/09/12
Game 9 – Grand Final Winner from Game 7 v Winner from Game 8

Adam Walne & Theo Fages made the 19 man squad v Wigan for Monday night if they play would be tremendous, good luck guys

Better late than never.

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Under 20's match report now online

Adam Walne definitely should have been in months ago !!!

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Absolutely no way is Theo Fages any were near ready for a first team shirt yet & any one who as watched the 18's & the occasional 20's game he as played in knows this { apart from billybradshawsmum because she is bias!!!!!!!! }

I agree Fages isnt quite ready for SL. Neither is Evalds.

The players that probably could be blooded from the 20's, in my opinion, without worrying wether they could cope physically and mentally would be:

Jordan Walne 2nd row, Adam Walne prop, Ford centre, Files hooker, Whitehead half back and Dan Brotherton wing.

Hello Adam. Or are you one of his parents?

'Hull FC U20's beat Leeds U20's 36-24 tonight away from home, rearranged after the waterlogged pitch the night the first team played there.' (22-8-12)

Taken from the Hull FC board...anyone know if this is correct?

The result is correct, Hull won not sure bout the score. Which means if we beat Leeds next week we end up second, if they beat us their second were third and we will play each other in the first playoff.

Quote ="RED MOUNTAIN"'Hull FC U20's beat Leeds U20's 36-24 tonight away from home, rearranged after the waterlogged pitch the night the first team played there.' (22-8-12) Taken from the Hull FC board...anyone know if this is correct?'" Not Correct it was 38 - 24 www.hullfc.com/article/22083/lee ... ll-fc-u20s

Quote ="RED MOUNTAIN"'Hull FC U20's beat Leeds U20's 36-24 tonight away from home, rearranged after the waterlogged pitch the night the first team played there.' (22-8-12) Taken from the Hull FC board...anyone know if this is correct?'" Not Correct it was 38 - 24 www.hullfc.com/article/22083/lee ... ll-fc-u20s

I'm not here to get into an argument (I'm off to Wembley tomorrow so I'm in an incredible good mood

) but someone on the coaching staff clearly thinks Theo [iis[/i ready for the first team and from speaking to several of the clubs staff both coaching and other the impression is he'll get his shot before too long. One man that I'm led to believe is Theo's biggest fan is an Ex-Great Britain international half back, treble Lance Todd winner, multiple trophy winning half back, and his opinion is one I will listen too much, much more than any tittle-tattle on an internet forum.

Time will tell.

This post is not far off the mark. Would say that Theo has got better throughout the season. Probably not ready to play regular at first team level but after giving him a 5 year deal and with only 2 games left he is surely a better punt than Howarth at 7. Evalds would be closer to first team level if he hadn't been stuck on the wing for a decent part of the season to accomdate Towers.

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20's KO 5-45pm at Leeds curtain raiser for S/L game, if Salford win they stay in 2nd place & earn a home game in play offs v Leeds, hope to see a few Salford fans in early to cheer them on please.

If you speak to any of the 18's or 20's lads that have stepped up and played first team, both past and present, most will say that it's easier playing for the first team because everyone's ability is higher across the board. You get a lot more protection from your team, and expectations from being a top player in one team to being just a player again takes off the subconcious pressure.

I'm not saying Theo is ready yet but it's a good time to give him some game time. That goes for any of the young lads.

Totally agree.
What have we to lose, nothing left to play for and surely they can not do any worse than the players out there at present.
It is difficult at present as the 20's have a Grand Final chance so you do not want to damage that, however at least put Theo and others from the start and have Holdsworth, Patten and a few others on the bench just in case.