You can not have Kay and Bowden on the bench Would leave Hood out

I agree. I'm just favouring Pitts over Ashurst but it's close.

I'm OK with Griffin in the centre though he did miss a few tackles.
Ultimately, we need the ball in his hands wherever he plays

At halfback it should always be Gale over Lino.

Why not? Bowden is a prop and Kay will interchange at 9.

Shudds mullered us at their place,Salford comfortably beat Shudds at same place, looks exactly like the kind of game we'll win!

Sorry got Bowden mix up with the young hooker ,Though would put him and Kay above Hood

Not sure tbh but we need a big game or a few from Hood

Give Proctor garden leave till season end. Pitts or Ashurst given a rest, ditto Lineham. Hood I just don’t rate but we are stuck. He’s just pedestrian.
Freshen up, Franco, Eseh plus one. What do we do with Dagger? Why doesn’t Lino kick anymore?

Good question about Lino and kicking, he held and maybe still holds the record for consecutive conversions in SL

Think that the duties were taken from him due to a leg injury and then so he could concentrate on his game. I may be wrong but sure I read that somewhere.

Dagger would be back kicking on Friday for me. He wasn’t missing hardly any even from sidelines.

Let's hope he gets selected !

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I'd like to see Lino, Lineham, Proctor and Hood replaced by Dagger, Romano, Eseh and Bowes .. but I fear it's very unlikely. Griffin should play SR and Croft come into the centre position.

Wouldn’t matter who is selected because our game plan is based on luck and bounce off the ball as opposed to an actual attacking structure.

Is tanginoa actually still at the club ? He was supposed to be close a month ago since then no sign nothing on his injury as far as I m aware , just glad I can’t make the game

He was injured. Having a fitness test this week.
Mash has given updates on his injury past couple of weeks
He's been around the club for other games.

I am afraid Brodie Croft will run rings around our team . He is a different class to our halves.

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Salford have selected a very strong squad. In my opinion everyone of their 1 to 7 is better than everyone our equivalent players. Will need to be a massive improvement to get a win out of this game. It could also be a very long night and our points difference could be increased significantly. Hope I am wrong but the bookies giving us 14 start think we have little chance.

Up until he went off early at Shudds I think he'd kicked 15 in a row.

Salford are a decent side.

However, since we beat them at BV they have only won one game (verses 12 man Shudds), last week.
We still need to have our "best game" and hope that they have an off night.

With Saints, Catalan and then Leigh to come after this one, we simply have to win.

This is already the "night cap" after the last chance saloon.

Hoping for a miracle but, expecting the trap doo to open a little wider.

We're not beating Salford. We've had our purple patch and it's back to the standard we have shown for the majority of the season. For all his effort Lino hinders the attack, he will still be picked regardless. Proctor should be nowhere near the squad after last week's 'efforts'. Bowes should be playing too.

Hopefully Eseh replaces Proctor, Pitts moves to loose, Griffin to second row, he got caught out a few timesat centre against Cas. The rest will likely be as they were against Cas rightly or wrongly.

Betfred only offering 1/5 for a Salford win. £50 to win a tenner! Is it really that certain?

With the fixtures that we have left, the opposition being 1/5 is probably as close as we have to "a fighting chance".
It's like clinging on to the last fibre of a rope that is breaking.

Yeah, we're going to fall but, you cant let go.