Who would you play ? Considering Yates, Hohiah, Gaskell and Roby are all out injured.

Why not play speakman at hooker?

Gaskell isn't injured and nor is Hohaia (that's how you spell his name by the way). Yates hasn't played in the first team before, except in a friendly, so he is irrelevant.

Only Roby is injured, which is very unfortunate but that doesn't give us an excuse to go daft and start sticking kids in all over the place on debuts.

I suspect Brown is seeing Salford as an easy beat and a chance to rest some of his players in time for Wigan (Roby excepted, obviously, because he is actually injured).

Maybe he, too, is 'injured'.

There you go again. Paranoid that the club is lieing. Hohiah and Gaskell both have injuries - FACT! Would Gaskell of got in anyway ? Im not sure but for now he is injured.

Like Pete says i would play Speakman and put Ashe on the bench but were not coaches.

Lance is injured.

He's on the bench.

Lee Gaskell isn't injured and once again will play for Rochdale at the weekend

Are you the same person who has banged the drum for years about giving young squad players a game against the leagues lesser lights?

At the end if the day, the game is relatively meaningless. Indeed, injuries and Brown's selections have made the match a lot more appealing.

If that's true, then he's been written off by Saints. Even those who aren't his biggest fans would have had him in this team in front of Charnock.

There must be something he's showing during the week when we don't see him but he coaches do that has made him unpickable. Shame.

Gaskell won't play for saints until he signs a new deal

Very silly post but just what I have come to expect from you. Quite the opposite in fact. The club has been telling us when players have injuries. They haven't mentioned injuries to Gaskell or Hohaia and so they aren't injured. Apparently Makinson isn't playing tonight either. Is he injured too? No. Of course not.

I'm all for having young players play when the pressure isn't as great (on their debuts anyway; I'm not one for keeping them overly protected from the pressure games either). However, hooker and halfback are two important positions and to have debutants or near debutants playing in such positions at the same time when there is actually no need is not something I have ever advocated. It smacks to me of taking Salford lightly, which is not something I have ever advocated either.

Just because they haven't told you, doesn't mean they're aren't injured. We're playing Wigan next week, the club probably want to keep things hushed up regarding team news.

Lance is injuried makinson and Gaskell are not