This is what the reporter says. “As yet we have not secured Ryan Brierly on loan from Castleford so he won’t be playing"
Now i take that as we havnt signed the registration papers until Trever barton arrives back from Holiday as mentioned on here on a previous thread so i think once the paper work as been sorted he will be coming.

Phil the Salford cameraman ( a Wigganer) asked me before the game who would win I said Salford by at least 20, he was taking the mick all the second half because I was wrong, was I bothered? was I bl**dy heck.

Aye but the poor sod is a Latics fan!

If we're so far ahead of Salford at this stage of pre-season then they've got issues, particularly as they're a divison and a hell of a budget better of than us.

Good luck to them going forward, I hope the new stadium isn't a white elephant for them.

Having watched Widnes today - who were also very poor - I would say that both teams have still got a lot of work to do.
Widnes looked out on their feet 5 mins before the break.

We thought we'd surely seen the worst team in sooper dooper league when we went to Salford on Saturday, but congrats to Widnes for proving us wrong.

FWIW Swinton also looked very poor, all looked a bit jaded for some reason and the ex-leythers looked like shadows of their former selves. I had Swinton down for a top 6 place when I saw who they were signing, but on yesterdays showing that looks like a big ask.

Scoreline probably won't look out of place for a SL vs Champ game, but on the performances both teams seem to have a lot of work to do to be where they want to be in their respective divisions.