fair enough i said my self i didnt think that was true

I'm starting to lose patience a little now. I'd like to see our squad on paper on the clubs website ? What's the hold up? All other clubs have there's up?

perhaps we have a signing in the pipeline and dont want to distribute the numbers till its sealed?

They've been distributed, I know 70% of them, I'd just like to see it in writing from the club.

The squad numbers are in yesterday's League Express.

1. Luke Patten
2. Jodie Broughton
3. Mark Henry
4. Chris Nero
5. Ashley Gibson
6. Stefan Ratchford
7. Daniel Holdsworth
8. Ray Cashmere
9. Wayne Godwin
10. Lee Jewitt
11. Vinnie Anderson
12. Phil Bailey
13. Stephen Wild
14. Matty Smith
15. Luke Adamson
16. Rob Parker
17. Iafeta Palea'aesina
18. Adam Sidlow
19. Ryan Boyle
20. Sean Gleeson
21. Unassigned
22. Adam Neal
23. Mark Sneyd
24. Gareth Owen
25. Jack Spencer
26. Toby Adamson
27. Adam Clay

Ratchford back at stand-off and Matty Smith at interchange hooker then. I bet a few people will be happy with that.

I wouldn't be happy I'd rather Holdsworth play stand-off because he has the abilty to put players through gaps from first reciever. Quality half backs like DH always appear to have time on the ball before releasing it at the exact right moment. How ofter do you see a player make a pass too early because their focus has switched to thinking about taking a hit? Holdsworth to me seems calm headed and brave and he's prepared to take the impact of the tackle for the benefit of creating space for a teammate.

I know the scrum half and stand-off positions are more similar these days with one playing left and one right but I'd rather have Holdsworth creating attacking plays from scrum situations. (Rather than just feeding a scrum and making a simple pass to say Ratchford)

A fair few of the team sheets had Holdsworth down as the scrum-half last year. League Express also classed him as a scrum-half in their 2010 polls.

Could it simply be that M Smith likes the number 14 shirt? Besides, it saves him changing his twitter name.

Like I said the two positions are very similar these days but I think not having Holdsworth in the stand-off (First reciever) role from attacking scrum situations would be a mistake.

As for the league express I personally think it was more a case of giving him some recognition due to the high standard of stand-offs in the top 5 list.

I doubt it. In the match reports they had Holdsworth down as scrum-half for plenty, backing up the interchangeability of the two positions that you highlighted.

Best squad iv'e seen at Salford in 20 years, i hope they don't let us down.

Probably just keeping the same numbers as last season.

, Remember Kevin McGuinness Squad number - 33
doesn't mean Smith won't be first choice

second Red League's comment easily the best squad we've assembled for some time , hopefully that will equate with competition and places to be fought for .