Was it m/boro in football who did not turn up for a match because they did not have 11 fit players
think they got fined n lost points and with this they went down

Salford could be granted special dispensation to bring in 3-4 loan players to fulfil the fixture according to their local journo.

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Salford should be given nowt. If they only have 13 fit players then they can start with no interchanges. Otherwise it should be a forfeit and we get the points.

Very unlikely I know but imagine if this happened & Salford beat us. Then at the end of the regular season we finished 9th with Salford finishing 8th 1/2 points above us. The uproar would be huge & rightfully justified. The only thing the RFL can do in my eyes is make them play the game with the players they have available rather then postpone the game or allow special dispensations.

How many other games will they ask to be postponed?

The difficulty is that any team at any given point will have players playing with knocks/jabbed up. Salford will obviously declare all of theirs this week to try and get the game suspended, but we probably have Green, Ellis, Bowden, Whiting, Hadley, Logan, Lancaster out, maybe some others playing with injections, Paea banned, so the underlying difference in availability is maybe less than it appears. Very dangerous precedent to set.

.... and Westerman.

Why not, they have been "entering" the rest of us for years!

If there wasn't enough pressure on the team to win, this just makes it even more of a pressure game.

Quote ="The Dentist Wilf"Enter the Rugby League! www.newsnow.co.uk/A/770259843?-4338:2393'" Quote ="Salford Red Devils CEO Martin Vickers"It is the fact that two thirds of our squad is ruled out through injury and selecting a team is impossible at this stage.'" Two thirds? Really? Their website lists 28 first team squad members. Presumbly they have an academy squad too.

Quote ="The Dentist Wilf"Enter the Rugby League! www.newsnow.co.uk/A/770259843?-4338:2393'" Quote ="Salford Red Devils CEO Martin Vickers"It is the fact that two thirds of our squad is ruled out through injury and selecting a team is impossible at this stage.'" Two thirds? Really? Their website lists 28 first team squad members. Presumbly they have an academy squad too.

One that they clearly have no faith in which is presumably why they don't want to field any of those players for the game against us...

If it was a virus sweeping through the squad they'd have a point. Injuries and a raft of suspensions is no reason. Koukash will have to get his wallet out and get loanees in.

Just looked at there board and someone has put a potential team on there with 14 players, add Ian Watson then you only need two more from the 19s or loanees. Is even bet a couple with play injured with injections etc.

Really really poor by Salford.

Salford can just stick to the rules and play a raft of U19s, they cannot be allowed to break any rules on loan players or salary cap.

I'm sure some are genuine injuries preventing those players taking the field but how many of the injured are just niggles who would ordinarily play but because they don't fancy it they're declaring them unfit to play thus making the injury situation seem worse than it is.

I guess we'll see on Friday but I'd put money on some of those on the injured list turning out.

We've had to register coaches to play before today so I have little sympathy....plus were desperate for the points so sorry Marwan.

We played all our A team when first team went on strike.
As for loan players not sure of present rules but we had 19 Aussies playing mainly A team games living in 2 houses in Hawthorne Ave.,
Know different game then but still RL .

well i hope all other SL teams decline the option to help them out! as other have said, could become ugly at the end of round 23 if by some miracle we were battling for 8th n 9th with salford and lose out!

Apart from Morley who's out that didn't play against Cas ?

Have Salford tried getting a petition going

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Surely you cant just play your 19s without dispensation as you register your first team squad at the start of the season for salary cap reasons. As soon as you add 19s to it you go above the salary limit which is probably Salfords angle

not like they are going to be on £1000s a week is it?



more like a month

Quote ="Sebasteeno"Surely you cant just play your 19s without dispensation as you register your first team squad at the start of the season for salary cap reasons. As soon as you add 19s to it you go above the salary limit which is probably Salfords angle'" That's not correct. It's only your top 25 earners that go against the cap www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/rules/i ... section=E1

Quote ="Sebasteeno"Surely you cant just play your 19s without dispensation as you register your first team squad at the start of the season for salary cap reasons. As soon as you add 19s to it you go above the salary limit which is probably Salfords angle'" That's not correct. It's only your top 25 earners that go against the cap www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/rules/i ... section=E1