We are more than capable of beating Bradford Bulls this coming Friday.

My prediction:


SALFORD CITY REDS 22 - 20 BRADFORD BULLS


M.O.M. Malcolm Alker


ATT: 5,000

Think we've beaten Bradford the last two times we've played them at the Willows.

On last week's performances by both teams we should beat them comfortably but like I've said previously they'll be awful one week and put in a quality performance the next. I reckon it's going to be a very close one on Friday that could go either way.

Bradford are so hit and miss at the moment from beating saints away,
to loosing at home against celtic just can tell how fri will turn out,
on form a salford win but bradford are so unpredictable this year

At least we've got a decent Ref in charge this week, I'm sure Phil Bentham will do his best to keep the game flowing...

i like our club. I couldn't afford to go to the game but the club sent me a pro mo so i can get in for £5

I'm really looking forward to this one! Should be a gr8 game win or loose if we keep this form up.

Salford City Reds 19 man squad

Wilshere, Henry, Talau, Turner, Goulding, Smith, Myler, Cashmere, Alker, Jewitt, Sibbit, Parker, Swain, Paul, Littler, Leuluai, Adamson, Ratchford, Thornley.


Bradford Bulls 19 man squad

Cook, Langley, Sheriffe, Burgess, Sykes, Scruton, Menzies, Newton, Olbison, Rinaldi, Halley, Nero, Lynch, Kopczak, Jeffries, Tadulala, Worrincy, Platt, Deacon.

So stapo isn't back then?

Can I ask how the hell The Sun managed to get a pic of Robbie Paul in a butchers? www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... 439600.ece

Can I ask how the hell The Sun managed to get a pic of Robbie Paul in a butchers? www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... 439600.ece

If Deacon plays you'll win, he's too predictable and prone to mistakes.

My team would be:

Halley
Sheriffe
Menzies
Nero
Tadulala
Sykes
Jeffries
Lynch
Newton
Kopzcak
Burgess
Worrincy
Langley

Cook
Scruton
Rinaldi
Platt

If Tadulala isn't fit then I'd put Halley on the wing and Platt revert to FB.

Quote ="London Fax"Can I ask how the hell The Sun managed to get a pic of Robbie Paul in a butchers? www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... 439600.ece'" Boots n all tonight

Quote ="London Fax"Can I ask how the hell The Sun managed to get a pic of Robbie Paul in a butchers? www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... 439600.ece'" Boots n all tonight

Another strong squad put out by Shauny feel the forwards will need to put on a show friday, as Bradford rely on a roll on to get the likes of Jeffries and Deacon going our forwards need to go forward, with that go forward the likes of paul and Alker can dominate the ruck around newton letting myler and Rachford/smith find the gaps to put people through.

Be Committed, work hard, play smart and build on the positives of huddesfield last week, stay in the arm wrestle for as long as you can and when the chance comes turn the screw and get a result.

We need to keep our wining team and dont change it.

TAKEN FROM THE SUN ARTICLE LINKED ABOVE


Victory will move the [size=150Manchester club [/sizeabove their Yorkshire rivals but captain Malcolm Alker admits he's wary.


DISGUSTING

always the way, they'll never learn

I don't mind us being refered to as 'the manchester club' every now and then. I'd hate to change our name away from salford tho. I'm Prowd* that the only superleague quality club in greater manchester is the Salford City Reds





*i'm not prowd that i can't spell that word but there you go!

Not wanting to open up a can of worms (and pardon my ignorance if I have got the wrong end of the stick) but isn't Wigan in greater manchester?

Yep!

2 CITYS


1 SALFORD
2 MANCHESTER

ENOUGH SAID

Sorry my mistake thought Wigan was lancs!

Still Salford is the createst club in the manchester area!





Anyway sorry for distracting the descussion. No one wants to get confused. Salford is Salford...... a great city just next to manchester (and far batter than manchester. End of.

Rite back to the origonal descussion.......... Fridays game!

To the SUN anywhere north of Birmingham is Manchester, as an aside the SUN's print age is 6 yearsi.e. language used is the same as a 6 year old would be expected to read.

*LATEST BETTING*


SALFORD CITY REDS ~ 6/4

BRADFORD BULLS ~ 4/6

DRAW

SALFORD CITY REDS +6 - 10/11

BRADFORD BULL -6 10/11

TIE: 16/1

thats a tenner on salford + 6 easy money

Just been looking at the Bradford board and they dont seem to be in a very happy place at the moment, teams not performing, fans a bit down looking back at bull mania and all that jazz. not much positivity there.

We on the other hand are moving foward, full of confidence in the way we are playing, the coaching staff have built a squad who are beginning to make an impression at superleague level, on the terraces we are happy as long as the players keep giving the same standard of performance expected at superleague level.

I just hope the players dont freeze in this situation because its bradford and their part of the "big 4", bradford imo are on the slide both on and off the field they are not the side they once were they havnt replaced quality with quality over the years.

Its a team full of old men, nearly men and plodders now, mcnamara doesnt seem to have any magic to raise them back to the next level.

Us on the other hand have youth, experience and most importanly Hunger to go to the next level, with a wiley of fox Mcrae in charge we are comming along quite nicely thankyou, winning your home games are an important aspect when succeding in this division winning on friday will keep us moving forward, remember success is a journey not a destination, winning friday will keep us moving forward.

Thats a very polite way of putting it, cheers. We're not on the slide, we've already slid to the bottom from our perspective. Any talk of "big 4" etc is now rubbish as far as the Bulls are concerned IMO.

I reckon you'll beat us tonight as there are some deep rooted problems with the Bulls at the moment, and if you do beat us you'll deserve to go above us in the league. Im coming over as I've always enjoyed a trip to the willows, I just hope its a good game and if you do win, as I suspect, that its because you played better than us on the night and not because we self destruct as we so often do these days.

Either way, my main point is that giving you a +6 start is a licence to print money IMHO, I can't bring myself to bet against the Bulls but you guys would be foolish not to take them up on that - if we do sneak it I doubt it will be by 6 points or more. (i really really hope Im wrong BTW

) The only hope Im clinging to is that the team have been stung by the critisim this week and go out to make a point (i've felt all year that one week we're going to rack up a serious amount of points against someone when it all clicks.... but each week it doesnt click...)

cheers, have a good game tonight.

Bradford are well beatable. We've beat them at the willows before we can do it again. There should be no need to fear them at the willows. We have a good young talented squad who are starting to gel nicely. If they can keep up the momentum and play as they did on sunday then I see no reason why we can't win this against a very pee'd off Bulls team. A team who i am sure will be coming here to get a result and make up for their result last weekend. This could be a real cracker of a game. Maybe the tie of the weekend.