Anyone else fear the attendence for Thursday? Opening day defeat ontop of a Thursday night plus being on Sky. Think we in for worst attendence of the new era! Shame, anything over 6k and I will be pleasently surprised.

I'm feeling a Salford win on Thursday night. I also believe that Saints will have the South Sydney game in the back of there minds the following week.

Saints will start fast and try and blow us out the game by half time but if we start like we did against Wire I think we will get over the try line in the first 20 mins this week. How we didn't score in the first half last week I don't know, although Wires defense will be the best in the comp this year.

Also devastated that Sau' and Locke are missing for this one as they give us so much going forward but I'd have to go with...

1.Evalds
2.Johnson
3.Griffin
4.MCB
5.BJB
6.Dobson
7.Chase
8.Taylor
9.Lee
10.Tasi
11.HH
12.Paterson
13.Hock

14.Fages
15.A.Walne
16.J.Walne
17.Griffin

Morley to miss out for me but I do think Harris will play him. I'd rather play Jordan Walne who's more likely to score tries and finish with his decent pace.

Predication

Salford 22 - Saints 18 A classic down at the AJ Bell! #REDARMY!!!!

I think it's a stretch to expect Mozza to play these 2 very intense games in such a short space of time,so I'd leave him out of the 17.
Also Theo must stay in the 17 for me .

I would be disappointed with anything less than the 6,353 we got for the same fixture last season. Thursday should be a 7k plus gate.

We gave a good account of ourselves on Saturday and I fully expect the same again tomorrow. It's hard to gauge anything after just 1 round, but I fancy us to give Saints a close game. I just hope the fact that it's on a Thursday night, coupled with us being on Sky doesn't detract people from coming to the game. A good crowd in good voice = a good Salford performance.

For me tomorrow we need to be a little bit sharper in attack and take our chances. On Saturday defensively we were pretty sound but we did bomb quite a few chances in that first half. Were certainly going to miss the likes of Sau & Locke but with the depth of our squad i'm quitely confident we'll go well this season!

30 years of false dawns for me, and counting.

The law of averages says we [imust [/iturn up on one of these occasions, sooner or later. When did we last beat one of the really top sides? (and I don't count Huddersfield in that bunch, nor the admittedly decent hammering of an understrength Warrington three seasons ago). Back at the Willows we occasionally (once a season?) pulled off a bit of a coup, just as the likes of Wakefield, Widnes, et al do every year. But it seems a very long time since we did.

The tv cameras tomorrow night will offer another perfect opportunity to set our stall out and entice the lapsed support back into the fold, just as they did when we played in the opening game in the snow ( ) and against Saints last year when we were roundly thumped. Perform a little better than on Saturday and we'll be fine. Anything less and the wider public will be all over the Dr's twitter account like flies round the proverbial.

I will say an extra one again tonight...

I read something on twitter that J.Walne could be in the starting 13. Would you think this means Hock will keep his place at prop!

I can't see what we gain from having Hock start at prop, he's a hugely destructive runner out wide, that said people said the same when Gallen moved into the front row and that's not turned out that bad a positional change.

Give me Gareth Hock at back-row any day of the week, but he is such a strong runner with a fantastic offload that he could cause plenty of damage in the middle of the pitch aslong as players like Rangi, Dobson, Evalds and the two wingers get on his shoulders.

I would imagine it will be between J.Walne and Walton for Hauraki’s spot and if either of those are to start at loose, you would have to guess that Tasi will come in for Mozza.

Last Saturday we had Hanson & Hauraki out wide on each side when we had the ball. Last year Hock was destructive out wide but he, along with Patterson, caused Warrington problems. Dobson must start as we looked better with him on. J. Walne may be a little small for the middle but he did play well against Leeds last year.

Last Saturday we had Hanson & Hauraki out wide on each side when we had the ball. Last year Hock was destructive out wide but he, along with Patterson, caused Warrington problems. Dobson must start as we looked better with him on. J. Walne may be a little small for the middle but he did play well against Leeds last year.

According to social Media Kevin Locke been added to the squad for tomorrow

Here's a preview of the game with St Helens. Pity no Kev Locke. The sooner he gets on the field the better. He will be a superstar www.nothingbutleague.com/super-l ... st-helens/

Here's a preview of the game with St Helens. Pity no Kev Locke. The sooner he gets on the field the better. He will be a superstar www.nothingbutleague.com/super-l ... st-helens/