It's a fair point. We have the worst disciplinary record in Superleague and Harris must accept responsibility and address it. With our unfortunate injury situation, poor discipline has really compounded our current selection problems. I don't know if players get money deducted from their contracts if they get banned but if they don't perhaps the club should consider it.

Turn up with a pair of boots on sunday and you cud get a game.

My lad plays number 6/7/9 for Buxton Bulls, He will be more than happy to play for Salford.

And im sure a few more lads will put there hands up if we are that short of players.

Question for those in the know, can the match be called of , if we cannot field a team, due to injuries and banned players.????/

Fages,I'd let him make the call....

Never mind loans,spend some money.

Not on the RFL charged list as of tonight

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Bad one that,he'll get five for it.As Mr Patterson used the elbow,not the shoulder.

Did not realise there was a Next Page

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Patterson - 3 Game Ban , £300 quid fine

Averaging 2 ban & 2 injuries a game , at this rate Chase will have no team mates by the time he makes it back on the field .

they might even be forced to play Locke ......

So we’re missing:

J Griffin
Sa’u
Dobson
Ben Jones Bishop
Walton
Lee
Paterson
Chase
Hauraki
D Griffin
A Walne
J Walne
Menzies
England (on loan)
Ford (on loan)

And we're looking at registering Ian Watson as a player.

I’ve never known anything like it. If it was Saints, Wigan or Leeds missing this amount of players the TV pundits would explode.

No, our 19’s at the moment are struggling. We have no where near the quality of academy players that Wigan, Saints, Leeds etc. For us to throw a young 16/17 year halfback straight into a super league match when we don’t even have one training fulltime (I don’t think) would be criminal. Not only for the team, but for their confidence as well, especially if he makes a few mistakes early doors and our fans start getting edgy. First of all they have to earn a place in the first team by playing well at u19’s level and if the coaches don’t feel that the players we currently have in that position are good enough then we have to respect that decision, at the end of the day they watch them every day in training and are trained to develop the young lads properly.

Our academy at the moment is a work in progress, we have a number of good products playing in the first team already: Fages, the Walne Brothers, Walton and Matty Gee and Ryan Lannon were both on the bench against Leeds last week, so we’re getting there. Plus we have also let a number of players leave in the past: Ratchford, Turner, Sneyd so we do produce them, maybe not on the scale of a Wigan or Leeds, but I'll say it again we’re getting there.

FWIW I don’t think Watson will play, I just think he’s being registered as a last resort.

Anyway didn't you lot register Radford the other year after he had retired?

Tried that last year at Widnes,playing the centre whose name I forget,but difficult to pronounce anyway,and the poor lad was totally out of his depth and hasn't been seen since.

Some fair points, but I still think playing a 17/18 year old is better than playing Watson and Godwin. What is the point in playing Watson?