I totally agree with this Evalds should be starting every game for us he is easily better and more effective than O'Brien who to be fair is playing very well but i would pick Evalds over him every time. If we do end up losing Evalds its a huge mistake by the club.

We want to have a culture at Salford where people automatically don't walk into the team based on who they're. This happened last year and we had players who knew 100% that they were going to get in. This year it's different. O'Brien so far has been good at full back licking up well and acting as another pivot. We can't drop him on the basis on keeping Evalds happy as we did last year with Chase and Fages. If he does decide to leave because he won't wait and train hard to earn his spot then we don't want that type of character anymore at Salford. We all know what agents are like and I hope Evalds looks at the Fages situation and learns from it as he doesn't even get picked for the 19 atm.

It's no wonder he's getting in ahead of Evalds if he's resorting to that type of thing

Excellent post - I just wish others will see the benefit of that 3rd pivot to our system. Evalds is a finisher and a good one at that and we will see the benefit of that this season hopefully. To suggest he is going anywhere is madness anyway - why would he want to give a Maserati back?

And just as things appear to be getting a lot, lot better, I am happy to leave the judgement calls to Tim Sheens and Ian Watson. Real good feeling now about this season. Can't wait for my next game - Catalans away.