Good effort from a Salford side with a second rower at half back and another second rower at hooker.

Players missing:
Jones Bishop
Josh Griffin
Sau
Chase
Dobson.
Morley
Lee
Paterson
Hauraki
A. Walne.
Godwin.

Lol... Saints went through the playoffs and won the grand final with a second rower at half back..., and Liam Hood played most of the game at hooker - why didn't they start him?

Presumably because he wasn't fit enough for the full 80 mins, which is kind of the point.

Probably still should've won being 8 points up with 20 mins left but closing games out is not one of our strengths.

Hull had Westerman, Paea, shaul, Ellis, green and Bowden out. The first 4 maybe our best players, so while they had more out, it wasn't as bad as the club were making out. Still a good effort from salford though.

True however I think the reason Salford have made such a noise about this is the fact we have been missing all our starting players from position 3 through to the number 9 position.

The request for a postponement was unnesscary but we have just been pretty unfortunate in the areas where our injuries have fallen. Throw in a couple of bans to the first choice 2nd row forwards (our own fault) and its virtually a new side.

Perhaps there was a mind games element however we had 12 players at training during the week which would suggest a few that played tonight were not 100‰.

At risk of repeating myself I think it is more the positions where Salford's injuries have occurred that has done the damage for us. At least they should all be fresh later in the season.

Additionally Godwin isn't Salford's player either!!!!

Most teams have players unavailable for aspects of training until Wednesday/Thursday/Friday as they're recovering from knocks in the previous game. That's what your physios and conditioners are for. And that's why, at Leeds anyway, there is only 1 short team training session before Wednesday in the week.

For the Hudds v Leeds game, Watkins, Delaney, Ablett, Cuthbertson & JJB were all suffering from knocks/injuries before the game. Im sure Huddersfield and other clubs had a similar amount too.

I forgot Hadley, Lancaster and Logan, so that is 10 players out.

I suppose "fine" depends on whether you place any importance on missing a first choice winger, both first choice centres, both first choice halfbacks, first choice hooker, a first choice prop and two first choice backrowers. Add a fullback playing out of position on one leg receiving treatment on the run for the full game because he was less inured than others, and having your second choice hooker returning from injury before he should have been. Forget the number of injuries, it's the significance of them to the team that's bitten Salford. Hopefully the experience will be good for those who have filled in and shown up fairly well.

I must bring up Saints again , as they had a similar injury crisis over Easter and you didn't hear them asking for postponements. It's what squad depth is for.

Did Marw run the water?