For a start he is not a crock!
Locke is a good player but sadly injury prone. If he was that good do you think NRL clubs wouldn't battle to keep him?

Canterbury didn't sign him due to his attitude not ability, he did have that bad accident with a rugby post remember. And therefore ppl aren't sure if he's 100% over that, and if his body will ever be the same again. But it's more due to the rumours about his attitude. And moving to the high pressure goldfish bowl of Sydney is not a good idea for him.

A good player but do they need another fb/winger? I was under the impression they were already a threat there especially with Locke coming in.

Yes, the backline lacks speed. Its been our weakness so far this season, we still need another centre to replace Gleeson and a backline of Locke, Jones Bishop, Sau and Johnson is a marked improvement.

We still need a quality hooker, another prop and Loose Forward and we're away. I'm not asking for that much am I?

As cracking a player that BJB may be, you could hardly say he has not missed a lot of his young career through injury.

Blood clots, medial ligaments, dislocated shoulders and his skull (obviously the latter was a freak injury)

One does worry about how Marwan is going about it. He's made his opposition to the current cap system and level known publically and he is slowly amassing a star laden side, seemingly winning a bidding war for every player he signs. I just hope he isn't doing a Melbourne, paying through 3rd party companies, heading for a confrontation with the RFL when he's in clear breach, or just ignorantly heading for a fall by loading salary on star players and being left with a squad of 6-7 stars and 20 kids and being no better.

For the record and any paranoid Salford fan, I'm not making a direct allegation of any wrong doing and I'd love Koukash's Salford to be a success, the more 'big' teams in SL there are, the stronger the competition is.

Interesting .............. either there wasn't much interest in BJB, or he is more confident in Salford's ability to avoid relegation this season than I am.

Interesting to see how many contributors to this thread feel that Salford are favourites for relegation. As things stand Salford are 9 points clear of the relegation places.

I'd be very surprised if 10 points isn't enough for safety this year and I'd be absolutely amazed if we don't pick up at least 1 win between now & the end of the season. We're only 1 point off 8th place and while I don't for one second think we'll make the top 8 it would seem a more likely scenario than relegation.

Like Hull and a couple of other teams, if Bradford get some points back, it could be time to worry.

Realistically its between Bradford and Wakefield. Salford are an outside shot if they have big injury problems. Bradford won't get 6 points back, so worst case scenario for the teams above them is they get 4 back. There are 15 games left. It would be a huge achievement for them to win even 7 of those. That would put them on, at most, 18 points. Are you telling me you can see Hull, Hull KR or Catalans not winning the 4 out of 15 that they would need?

I would be surprised if Wakefield get dragged into it. I would be absolutely amazed if anyone else did.

Hull?? Are you being serious? You are clueless if you think they even need to think about relegation.

Some of Hull's own fans have said this already, so whether he's serious or not, it could be possible if Bradford get 6 points back.
If this were to happen, they would be within 4 points (2 wins) of, Wakefield, Salford, Catalan and both Hull clubs and with half of the season still remaining, none of these clubs should feel safe.