If he plays anywhere near like he did against Wakefield then I'd be worried for your forwards, he was a beast!

I watched Salford on Sunday and they were no where near as good as they should be on paper "haven't gelled yet" comes to mind. They played better when Chase went off (hope he gets back soon though) Wakefield were able to put them under a lot of pressure by forcing penalties out of them and they were lucky to hang on in the second half, but that's what good teams can do

That all said they will smash us to bits by the sounds of things, Wakey played better than we will be able to and we are gonna have to sit there and take it.

London 10 - 58 Salford

Attendance will be more interesting, I think 2k would be an achievement and that number would probably contain a good number of away fans. Think the bar will be busier at half time when England kick off in the 6nations

Even a slaughter would be better than watching the Sick Nations!

I thought the Chase absence would help us, but as sogspurs said, they still played fine without him. Lets hope they get complacent. Though with Legend Morley and Hock and Hansen in the team, it will be a baptism of fire, if the Widnes game wasn't already.Heads up lads!

With a game under the belt for a team of lads who have been thrown together and an extra weeks training I think they'll be better for it, still a loss but I think there'll be a more cohesive performance.

I suggest you write down the names of the Salford pack beside the names of the London pack......including bench players and tell me you can see anything other than a massacre!

London have a pack?

yep....the 52 cards have gone missing but we still have 2 jokers!

Not after I've smashed the screens up with a baseball bat.

I was hoping to catch the football scores. Any chance you could wait until 5 o clock?

I'm very disappointed Chase isn't playing as I was looking forward to giving him a detailed assessment of his world cup performance.

If we are beaten by less than 50 points it will prove that miracles do happen.

Rangi might yet play, he's determined to be fit enough but I just cant see Nobby risking him particularly when we have such strong cover in Theo Fages.

Maybe I'll just change the channel to Sky News if that's better?

I'll be genuinely pleased if we keep it within 20 points. Looking forward to the game though.

Having started last season with a pulled together squad including academy kids, most of us Salford fans expected to be spanked severely every game, but it didn't quite turn out like that..ok, we still ended up bottom of the pile, but I got to say, for me personally, I enjoyed the season greatly as there were loads of positives..

Granted, we knew that the Doc was going to deliver a bit of depth to our pack and things could only improve, but witnessing the likes of Theo Fages and the Walne brothers coming of age and living with SL pressure was heart warming to say the least.

I truly hope that no matter what happens at the end of this campaign, your club rebuilds for the future and is instrumental in promoting the great game in the north of London

I'm not saying we're going to win but people are vastly over-rating Salford IMO.

They scored three tries against Wakefield. Not like they're coming here on the back of a 60-10 scoreline.

Granted I don't know half of the names in their 19 man squad, but I can't see us getting hammered. We'll lose by 10-15.

Bookies have us losing by 28 to 34 points.

They had us to lose by 26 last week!

Could be some value there then.

I've just checked some of the stats from last week. We were the only side not to break 1000 meters gained over 8 minutes and we made more tackles than anyone else. Hock and Morley between them have more first grade games than our entire squad and they are about 8kgs a man HEAVIER than us up front.
What is of bigger concern is the number of Meters Salford's backs made last week. Their pack made 664, which was 190 less than Wakefield, but their backs still made 548 off the back of this "loss" ....there pack will not lose the battle up front this week.....god help us! Salford by plenty.

We didn't lose the battle up front last week, it was just Wakefield had near enough 70% possession in the second half due to 7 second half penalties given away at vital times.

Individual stats added up show wakeys pack making 190 more meters than the individuals in the reds pack. Regardless of the penalty count.
My point is valid.....with less forward drive and possession Salfords backs did well....this week you'll murder us

How much of Londons dreadful play though comes from a genuine lack of understanding, this team has been thrown together and do not what each other are about. They will get beat but probably a touch less than the Widnes game, with each day comes a better understanding, with each game the strengths and weaknesses of each other will become more apparent.
Salford by plenty but a touch of patience from the fans you would hope under the circumstances.

Wakefield, Bradford and possibly widnes and castleford are the clubs we need to take points from to have a prayer of staying up.
As for the "thrown together at the last minute" the club have only themselves to blame for that......patience won't keep them up and neither will this squad. They are reaping what they have sewn

London 7 (7)

Salford 74 (36).


If Salford had an outstanding goal kicker the score would have been higher.

Tony Rea will comment: "I thought that we trained well during the week. Unfortunately our forwards were outmuscled and our halves were out thought and our outside backs were outpaced. Nevertheless, there is still a lot of improvement in this team. We are on a steep learning curve. However I am getting good vibes from the soon to arrive major signings. Better days are ahead of us."