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Salford making themselves look daft again. That club desperately needs to be run in a more professional fashion.

Getting into financial and legal disputes with your players and then admitting you can't fulfil your fixtures will put off even average players from going to Salford.

did m/boro in football do this they got fined n lost points n also when down as well because of this i think

Well they'd be unavailable too in that case.

He has bought depth. We have the strongest squad we've ever had (not the strongest of competition!). We have 17 players out. 8 or 10 out, even 12 we could have coped with. We had 14 out yesterday and list to last year's 2nd place team by 2 points. But 17? That leaves us with 13 plus a couple on loan.

Our older 19s are either already on the squad and playing or on long term loans. Not sure about bringing them back. That might be one option. not sure the fans of the clubs they're on loan to would be pleased and I guess it would cost us a few grand. But it might be an option

Our u19s has been revamped to focus on developing younger players so are mostly 16 or 17. I believe that's the long term thinking that most people are telling us we should be doing

As fir the ire, we certainly seems to be the marmite team of the year!

Very good

I can see your point but I suspect this was about lodging in the public's mind that we are severely depleted so f we get a caning in this game and drop out of the 8th it helps manage the 'same old Salford' response

It's hard for some to get how hard it is to rebalance the low expectations of the Salford public. After the opening against Warrington I went for a few pints. Half a dozen people asked me the result and when I said we'd lost they all said separately 'I thought they were supposed to be good now'

We'd lost to one of comp favourites away by 14 points. So not great but not a bad result by any means. But to the Salford public it's just further proof about how crap we are. We're in the top 4-6 and can still only pull in 3-4k. I think it's hoped that if people are aware of hoe depleted we are the response might be 'not a bad result considering.....' Rather than 'Salford always get beaten'

Admittedly may make some think Salford are badly run of they're struggling to get a team out but I guess that's the marketing gamble?

it's not often a squad is stripped so thinly, but 4 of those are of Salford's own making....and why should Hull or any other club have to wait til Salford have enough players to compete, why should another club be punished?

i'm damn sure Salford have 17 players throughout their first team squad and U19's to be able to fulfill the fixture, if they lose then tough, it's the way of the world.

It's still 3, not 4, out of 17 missing, as has been said earlier but don't worry about mere detail. And most Salford fans agree and state repeatedly that we have to suck that up and we are even more ed off with the 3 who picked up long bans than we already were

No-one thinks another club should be punished. Most agree we shouldn't have asked. I'm not sure what harm if does to ask, however pointless. Salford are not trying to break any rules, force something to happen, force a club to do something they don't want to or disadvantage anyone. We asked, Hull said no, we accepted it and will get on with trying to find 17 players to put out. If you read other posts you might see why we're struggling to get 17

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If the RFL postpone this game, it will be up there with one of the worst decisions in their history and it could set a very dangerous situations in the future.

I honestly can't believe they have the nerve to ask for this. I'm sure other teams have been in similar situations and have just got on with it. Even most Salford fans think it's a stupid request to make.

Yep. I can remember a few years ago Leeds had 14 out for various reasons. I'm sure other clubs have too.