Big game, I'm not sure, important, damn right it is, well any way you see it here are the players that will make it happen.

Salford 19: Patten, Broughton, Gleeson, Gibson, Williams, Holdsworth, Smith, Jewitt, Sidlow, James, Anderson, McPherson, Wild, Nero, Adamson, Owen, Howarth, Paleaaesina, Gledhill.

Widnes 19: Ah Van, Allen, Clarke, Craven, Cross, Davies, Flynn, Haggerty, Hanbury, Isa, Kavanagh, Leuluai, Marsh, Mullally, Owens, Pickersgill, Watts, White, Winterstein.

From our experience on the I-Pitch, i'd said the one thing which was noticeable is how hard it is to effectively turn and change direction. Therefore, a back line with pace could be quite destructive on there coupled with a intelligent short kicking game

What about a backline with pace coupled with a disappointing short kicking game?

Three Vikings players suspended for Sunday.

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Thankfully Finnegan is one of them as we all know he'd be on the scoresheet...

Just noticed Ashurst isn't in the squad, which is a blow as I think he's looked really good so far. Our back line picks itself (big blow not having Joel Moon thought) but it'll be interesting to see what PV does with the pack and who he puts on the bench.

Week one we started with;
Jewitt
Godwin
James
Anderson
Ashurst
Wild
Bench:
Gledhill
Adamson
Howarth
Palea'aesina

Week 2 we went with;
McPherson
Howarth
Gledhill
Ashurst
Adamson
Wild
Bench:
Jewitt
Sidlow
Nero
Owen

So we'll have a different pack for the 3rd straight week. Still no sign of Neal or Boyle.

Trying to forecast what Salford will do is well nigh impossible. As Adamjk stated, we came undone against Crusaders so many times. Widnes present a similar challenge, so who knows. HOWEVER, I think we will win. The big question mark again for me though, is Patten and Holdsworth. If either or both of these actually turn up and give a decent performance it would make a massive difference to our Team.

All that said, I'd be disappointed if we didn't win by at least 10!

..................and if we do fail, Coaches, please don't tell us that they 'trained the house down this week' and they can't understand what happened!!!

depends alot on how we defend for me, going forward I think we look sharp and could score a fair few points, defensively we looked good for 40 mins against saints but tired without the ball so i think a high scoring 36-18 which would be a right result....CMON UUUUUUU REDS!!!!

This has to be a must win, i hope Longy has worked on adapting Pattens link to recieving the ball at 3rd man. We look great spreading the ball up to this point, Patten, has 3-4 options with ball in hand and has failed every time and has chosen the wrong option, the most obvious noticeable pass on was the crash face ball to williams in both games, i'm not slagging Patten, it might be a confidence thing whats going on but it cost's tries, which cost's games, which cost's support, so come on Patten the safe inside ball isn't always the best option.

Widnes first win.

How many fans are travelling over for the widnes game today?

Could go either way this one.

Things aren't well in the Widnes camp but if we can use what's gone on as motivation we could see a close game. I'm a bit fearful for our season as you are for yours if we don't win.

Watts will be massive for us if he stays fit.

See Radio Manchester are covering Bradford -Wigan live...not sure why?... I thought they were a local station?

Looks at the moment like they've turned up.........

Wigan are in greater Manchester so it is their local BBC station