Were some young players ignored though because they simply weren't anywhere close to playing at SL level? Evalds, Theo, and the Walne brothers have all been given an opportunity by Harris.

Let's dispel the myth. Mr Hunte went off like a train when he first got his " academy " job.
He was never away from local amateur clubs,however as time went by he became more and more anonymous,till he became as useful as Albert White,who rarely considered local talent.
Remember we had the only academy setup that was considered to be failing,and this probably brought about the demise of Mr Hunte.

I too thought Alan Hunte did a good job, but as said above he just didn't bring through enough local talent. I am not involved in the local amateur game, but I am told by people who are that Salford have no presence whatsoever at junior/youth games.

Instead we settled with the best of the rest what Wigan, Saints, Warrington, Leeds etc didn't want and in that respect we've done well with what we have produced.

Niall might play tomorrow,with a local lad coaching Salford very unusual fact.Has it happened before.

Thought the kid proved today, he's a must at full back! Wonder whats up with Rangi?!?!

Noticed on a FB post on 'Everything RL' showing an article on Locke, a few Salford fans saying they preferred Evalds. At least one reply came from Locke himself who seem to think this suggestion was laughable. Which is a little arrogant seeing as a young ex-Academy lad kept him out of the position until his sulk got so bad he resigned.

Proved today why he's so rated, I thought.

Yes,Evalds has to be first choice.
Thought he'd cost us the game ,though,just after he was named MOM when he dropped the bomb.
Must give MCB more running chances. He won the game for us

I felt Dobbo deserved MoM ahead of Niall tbh. Agree re the bomb.

MCB had a stinker until winning the game for us!!! LOL Certainly needs that bit of space then whooooosh.

By the way I thought Ben Thaler had a great game in the middle.

Dont care what is up with Rangi. He is not a Fullback. Niall belongs there, and what we need now is another young lad u19s player , to learn from Niall. He maybe young to teach some one else, but who taught him , not a fullback we have had in recent years, that is for certain.

Thaler is the best ref by a mile.
He's in charge and both teams know it.
He's decisive

To be fair MCB had some awful passes sent to him , I thought he was ok. My MOM Weller Hauraki

Evalds defo best fullback we have, I thought Taylor had a good game as usual, think we will miss him next year.

We need to get the ball into MCB's hands more as his pace all round is frightening, when you look at the pace/power we have from 1 - 5 why on earth aren't we chipping over the top, kicking on the 1st or just putting a very early high hail mary up.

I absolutely love Niall Evalds. Criminal decision by Harris to drop the kid for the last two games, I wonder what Watson would have done had Rangi not been injured? He has still got a long way to go, 5 minutes left, slender lead, Catalan bomb and the pressure gets to him and he drops it. All that will come with experience though.

I have to agree re the wingers, it was noticeable yesterday that we were definitely trying to get the ball out to them much more than we have done previously. MCB was a joy to watch when given some open space infront of him, unstoppable.