First of 4 must win home games tonight, Salford have signed a very decent larker in Hastings who is capable of winning a game on his own and frees up Lui more so they should have more in attack. That said Rovers by 16 RRTR

Aye, I don't think they will be as easy as last game that's for sure.

I like the rugby that salford play, pretty expansive and will always score points. Not sure how good they are at keeping them out though. I expect a high scoring game today and rovers by 10 would be my prediction.

Could be a Salford win here.

Hope it's wrapped up earlier I'd rather not have to go through the anxiety before scruton crashed over agaisnt fax or anything similar

Id assume from our 19 our 17 will be something like this

Evalds
Olpherts
Sau
Chamberlain
Bibby
Lui
Hastings
Mossop
Lussick
Kopczak
Jones
Mccarthy
Flanagan

Wood
Nakubuwai
Tasi
Lannon

Considering there are 2 teams, and a salford win is one of 3 potential outcomes i'd say you've got a fairly decent chance of this happening nostradamus

I’d move Chamberlain to the wing in place of Olpherts and have Welham in at centre.

Other then that I reckon you won’t be far off.

Depends tbh though Chamberlain had a very good game at centre as did the whole back line. Whelham should have to wait

Well that is going to ramp up the pressure even more!

Totally out enthused, and that’s totally unacceptable.

The qualifiers concept is a joke. I was happy Widnes got beat last night because they’re the team that should go down with them finishing bottom. Whilst we have never finished bottom we once again find ourselves scrappyimg to survive. I kinda hope we and Leeds go down together because that’s 20k fans lost to the top flight.

Beaten again by the club with the paper thin squad, no money, crowdfunding to make money and no fans when it really matters. They finish below us, but we look like we could go down... again.

The system rewards clubs that don’t aspire to be anything more than clubs that make up the numbers.

Only in Rugby League.

The grapes must be sour in East Hull tonight.

Beaten Fair & Square.

Well said and totally agree with every thing you said

Where do you start after watching that? Lazy slow weak clueless spring to mind. Just poor all round.Mulhern tried his nuts off but we were just miles away from competing in defence and attack. Not going to single out the halfs or pack it was all of them.Not sure how we can go from high energy great spirit team to a half d rabble who couldn't do the basics? Massive job for Sheens to turn this round

Didn’t say we wasn’t beaten fair & square. I’m totally peeved with the structure that rewards clubs with survival when coming bottom of the league. I won’t be returning to watch RL next season if we go down again due to this ridiculous structure.

But I will return, tis In the blood unfortunately.

Don't think anyone could say Salford didn't deserve the win tonight? Just at a loss as to how we go from good attractive rugby to being so far off the pace we looked like a team in pre season. Said I wasn't going to single out players but Carney was gash.He wasnt on his own but Atkin McGuire was working well.Why change it? Tomkins won't need a shower after the game. Oakes looked a fair way off again. Mose and Jewitt will score up the middle a bit but we are in the brown stuff again

All teams have patchy games. And tbh the wins against a weak Widnes side and a slumping Hull... well a win is a win, but we’re kidding ourselves if we’re saying they were anything like accomplished 80 minute performances. Scratch team vs Hull, of course but they’re poor currently.

The issue is that in this system, if that patchy performance falls on the wrong day, the whole future of your club is in doubt.

I’m fed up right now. It’s just pain with the odd respite - that’s as good as it seems to get. Emotionally, I want to lash out, but there’s nobody to rationally target. Sounds like we just slipped up at a bad time again. Shizzle, pizzle and plop.

If we get that £500k parachute payment, how about just wazzing it on a massive party?

We knew what competition we entered in February and we've been the worst ever bitten side of this system since it's inception.
We were very well beaten tonight, and that's a huge worry.
I don't think it was a lack of effort, it's more concerning than that. Lack of being able to carry out a game plan.
Early days in a micro league, can't afford to do this next week, Sheens needs to get us up.

We were awful tonight had a feeling this would happen it was like watching us early season only Mulhearn came out with any credit

Simply unacceptable, complete lack of pride. Feels a lot like the Leigh game in '16. Belief well and truly gone. Bubble burst...

Clearly...

Missed some real aggression out there tonight. The pack was bullied and Salford were all over us. We were totally over enthused. It was a terrible display when it really mattered.Not good enough. We missed some real grunt with Masoe, Jewitt and Justin Carney(plus Blair) not available. The best team won, but for us although it,s early we could be in real trouble. Just didn,t look up for it tonight and that,s a big big worry.
Absolutely have to win against Toronto, no excuses, and must be up for it from the first second to the last or we will be in the brown stuff.

as disappointing as it was tonight I still think we will be ok, the carney move looks to have gone wrong we needed a big forward instead for these games , cleary as above average as he has been tickle is finished, he cannot defend but hes not on his own , big misses were masoe, blair and jewitt and add in justin carney a lot of grunt, size and character not available, the widnes and fc wins were against poor sides, we need to step up now and stop reading our own press. massive game next

I hate these qualifiers just can’t enjoy any game the reality is you could finish 8th and win the grand final or ninth and get relegated it’s ridiculous

Did tell you raising your game against the wrong opposition was madness, in a meaningless game “for you” the Derby you calculated wrong, the points were irrelevant to you, you doggedly hung on for what, to be a spent force in meaningful games, bigger battles, the curse of the Derby, it could be your swan song.

Jewitt and Mose and Blair was missed badly last night and Scruton did far to much running side ways for me .... on thing you have to criticise about the team selection is starting Carney over Atkin if something worked so well why change it as good as Carney may be you have to earn a starting spot and Atkin has done that all season although the speed out of acting half from Atkin was class but id still like to see him start in the half’s not the start we wanted but it’s a wake up call you can’t just think that if you have a better team on paper you will win you have to earn it with hard work like Salford did ...... nervouse about next week now as lose that and we may be in trouble