On paper we are far stronger, but there's still enough there to turn us over if we don't have the right attitude. This is a good benchmark for what Radford has done with the players during the off season. In the past we have just not turned up to these games with the right frame of mind and have lost.

What do you Salford fans think of Fages btw? What kind of half back is he? I have honestly never seen him do anything of note, in fact other than when he was nearly killed by the Catalans prop I barely seem to notice him even when I know he's playing. Not really knocking him because I don't see much of Salford and he always seems to get mentioned, he must have something about him.

I like him tough little cookie his best position is certainly in the halves and good at spotting little gaps quite an elusive runner also. And remember he's only 20 years old. Probably lacks a good kicking game though hence why we brought in Dobson.

Pity we didn't keep hold of Sneyd i would much prefer him & Fages and bring in a quality hooker rather then Dobson & Chase who have yet to show any kid of form although still early doors.

Good player, who has the potential to become very good. He will be starting at 7 against you on Saturday so you’ll have a better chance to observe for yourself. He enjoys taking the line on and making a break and also has a surprisingly tough defence considering his size. As mentioned above, lacks the kicking game to be anything other than just ‘good’ at the moment. Hopefully he’ll pick up a thing or two from Dobson with that respect.

Never that confident without Gaz.
He sets the benchmark for the rest of the boys to follow.
Always a big miss without the Captain.

This

I am hoping Minichello can take this role in Ellis' absence.

And Westerman. His leadership grows each year.

We didn;t crumble against wire without ellis so no reason to think we will tomorrow. We should beat that team if we want to be in the 8 at the split

Absolutely. A "must win" game in that sense.

I think this game will see if we are a different team this year . Usually we would lose this game considering the circumstances , so in my eyes it's a massive game and could shape our season .

This is how I see it, Salford are on a hiding to nothing, but that's not how it usually pans out.

What circumstances? We have a fit/decent set of halves and have only one forward and a fullback missing, the latter of whom is being covered very adequately. In seasons past yes we have faltered (yet sometimes prevailed too) with far more players missing and either halves that are untried or players out of position filling in the halves..this isn't one of those occasions.

We should take Salford to the cleaners, anything less and we should be really looking at what went wrong.
And Minichello is doing a very good impression of Gaz Ellis so far as I knew he would.

A win would be more than sufficient.

Most people are , especially fc fans are expecting a hull win after how Salford have started and more importantly after Salfords last result . In my eyes a lot of teams respond after a dreadful performance like Salfords last game , and we usually go into these games ( players ) weak minded not having to show up mentally and expecting an easy win .

Exactly,some people trying to make out it's an easy game so they can go on the attack if we don't win comfortably.

Perceptive analysis.

Potential banana skin tomorrow.
A big test of if we have improved from last year .

I don't think our attack is capable of hammering any SL team at the minute so we're going to have to defend really well each week to get a win starting tomorrow. Winnable game but also one we could easily lose

How long before the game do the turnstiles open please?

Hopefully salford fans will want to know what time they open to let the home fans out!!! If all goes to script, they should be dead and buried at the 60 minute mark

I only hope you're right - it's a long way to go for the FC ghost of previous years to come back and haunt us.

At thE Trafford centre at last. Took over an hour to get down the last 6 miles of M60. Leave early people, road works everywhere.

Man U at home!!!!!!!

No, but just in case you missed the point, we lost without him, same as we did last night!

We've lost plenty with him since he joined too

Maybe because he plays in an average to poor Super League team?