Is it confirmed TP is not in the squad for this season or jus this weekend?

rlGreg Bird anyone?rl Like for like swap with Hock...

No, keep Hock and get Bird, then he'd have someone too sell it too

He'll have to avoid prison first. Unless the doc can secure some sort of day release programme to allow him to play.

Marwan Koukash has just confirmed he will allow Locke to go if there is someone out there interested - developments too with Swinton plan - Neil Barker's comments.

Can't understand why we get rid of Locke...is it because this injury never going to go and we have signed another lemon...

If him and Hock do leave then i have full faith in the squad we have got! Evalds is ready to take over the number 1 jersey and our back rowers is probably the strongest point of the team so not worried.

Barker has just put on Twitter that Koukash has confirmed he will allow Kevin Locke to leave if anyone is interested. Scottish RU are subsequently set to hold talks with him and make an offer.

What is going on at Salford? Toughest and best pre-season ever, the team are like a family blah blah blah yet two games in and were in meltdown. Hock and Locke on the way out and Puletua threatening to sue for constructive dismissal.

Only at Salford.

Where have you heard this about Puletua?

I was told this weekend, apparently TP has been informed that he doesn't feature in Harris' plans and therefore wont be considered for selection.

Poor handling of a model professional who has had a great career in RL and deserves to be treated better. At this stage of the season, most clubs are fixed up and I assume TP will have to wait until either injury for example forces another club to look for a replacement etc.

The worst part of all this is the Kiwi contingent of our squad are a very close knit group and I have genuine concerns how the poor handling of both Locke and Puletua will affect the likes of Chase, Tasi and Sa'u.

Not good.

Have we paid our outstanding invoices to K2L marketing yet?

Salford are back!

Don't know anything about this, but isn't the owner of K2L a massive Salford fan. Wouldn't surprise me if we've managed to p*ss him/them off too.

I'm fairly certain the TP story comes from an article in the MEN of about 10 days ago.

My only concern in releasing Hock is that he is a very good player and therefore could be extremely effective against us. So why release him to another SL side; release him to RU and we would not have to watch him hunting down our centres (as he did every time we played Wigan) or opening up our defence with that marvellous off-load. So sefd im to (say) Hull KR or Huddesfield and we would potentially be giving that team a greater capacity to beat us.

I trust the Doc enough too think there is an underlying reason behind his willingness too get let Locke go, you'd think that if the SRU did get him they would have too pay a fee so we might make a decent sum for him

It's horrible too say but Locke looks like he's made of Digestives and as many have pointed out having Evalds waiting in the wings is hardly likely to weaken the side.

As for TP I'm shocked that someone didn't come in for him pre season when it was apparent he wasn't in Harris's plans, it's a shame but there are quite a few players ahead of him since we brought in all the younger forwards in the off season.