To me, it looks like we have assembled a group of hard working forwards, also hard working for each other, a team of 100% workers for the full 80 minutes. If that is the case we will be difficult to beat

I agree.

I think a lot of people think we need superstars in every position, and while that's desirable it's certainly not realistic. Team sports often require mixes of talent to get the most out of a team. Skilled players, grafters, on-field managers, defenders, hitters, etc etc. We've assembled a young and fit pack that will be required to graft. Until we see them after a few games we'll not know whether we've got that or require a different element. It's pretty unfair for some people to label certain players as Championship quality like that's a negative thing. There's plenty of Championship players that have become SL names, and there's plenty of talent playing in the lower league right now.

You see players being labelled as championship ilk is a negative thing, yet i see picking championship standard players is a negative thing. We are where we are due to this notion we just about scraped home for our Super-league status

Name me One recent decent Championship signing Salford have made who is of Super-league standard with the exception of Coley, ( he's was a One Off .) I'm not saying the Championship holds no talent, i'm saying we're pretty drab at scouting them.

OK I'll bite:
Liam Hood: I felt all season he was a SL hooker.

Liam Hood. Yeah right massive queue for his scribble. Thats why Sheens released him and went for Tomkins Good Call.

Can't think of any other than Coley who you mentioned. Ian Bragger the centre from Keighley many years ago perhaps? Didn't he start off like a house and fire and score about 20 tries in his first couple of season's with us? I think we then sold him to Castleford and his career nose dived for whatever reason.

I honestly thought we'd snatched a gem from Swinton in Menzies - big, mobile prop with a good pair of hands but with that bad lengthy injury last season Sheens obviously didn't like the risk.

I thought the same. The highlights video was very impressive but aren't they always? Problem was we couldn't get him on the field.

Pretty sure I saw him on Twitter saying he'd started personal training so may have finished altogether.
May have not entirely recovered, pitty if that's the case.

Wasn't Richie Myler signed when Widnes were in the lower league?

Yes I'd forgot about that. We benefitted from their misfortune of going into voluntary administration if I remember correctly.

Tex Evans is another player who did well for us after signing from Swinton. I'm not sure though if Swinton were a top flight team or not though when he signed for us back in the late 80's . They may have been relegated the year he signed for us?

Evans came from Swinton at at time they were a yo-yo club (like we had been just before) so I cannot remember whether we signed him just as they won the Second Division or just as they were relegated back the next season(s).

I remember Brags well, played against him in the BARLA National league i think he played for Eastmoor he's pre Super-league anyway,

I wasn't referring to Salford, Stanley, just to the notion that people band that phrase around in a negative context when there's talented players in that league. As for Salford, well, we're not in a position to be offering the best in RL a chance to play for us, either financially or in the credibility stakes. Seeing as we are only able to 'Scrape through' to maintain our SL status (By a clear 4 points) it's a wonder we have the personnel that we do. We need to build our credibility to grow our team, both on and off the pitch. We need to start somewhere and I think the last few seasons have been wasted years trying to do it the quick way.

The irony here is that during the time we had 'names' playing for us, a lot of people were clamouring for us to grow through the Academy and youth and have players that want to graft and play for the shirt. When we get that they're underwhelmed by it and start with the doom and gloom. I don't really understand what they want. You can't suddenly have both until you've made a mark on SL for a few seasons.

I'm concerned about certain aspects of the team, but I think it would be folly to cast judgement at this stage.