Going to be some game this and will test our consistency which has been alright this year. Burgess and Mateo will be fitter and Jones should be back. I'd go with..

1. O'Brien
2. Carney
3. Sau
4. Griffin
5. Caton Brown
6. Lui
7. Dobson
8. Kopzcak
9. Tomkins
10.Griffin
11.Murdoch Masila
12.Jones
13.Flanagan

14.Kenny
15.Burgess
16.Huaraki
17. Mateo

Salford by 18.

I'd swap J Griff for Jones, purely coz he's leaving.

Carney looked to be in a lot of pain so i cant see him playing but still a strong squad.

The team picks itself really.

With exception of Tommy Lee, the 17 against Hudds was probably our first choice 17.

For Leigh I'd have Evalds in for Carney if he's not fit, but other then that, the same 17.

Jones for Krasniqi too actually.

Forgot he didn't play.

rlSalford Squadrl

No Carney, Jones or Vidot.

Greg Johnson returns.

I'd go with Evalds or Johnson in for Carney. The rest of the team as you were against Huddersfield.

Where have all the Salford posters on here gone?No sign of the Butcher, the Baker, or the Candlestickmaker, the Butcher said my predictions were BLIND optimism Mr Butcher,Charlie knew.

This forum is clearly proving difficult to get to. It's not as if they have another forum either.

I think they set up a forum of their own Demon. Sure I read it on another thread

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salfordreddevils.freeforums.net/

Well just visited the General Discussion section. The vs Leigh thread is hilarious, all about how they think they will smash us. Strangely though they seem to have lost there way to that thread after 1pm yesterday

You must be a real hoot, you find some very strange things hilarious.
1 person says we'd smash you, others say they hope he's right. Hardly everyone saying we'd smash you. Not sure what you'd expect, everyone predicting a team from the league below will batter us?

Enjoy your moment, no need to go trolling

On reflection the performance wasn’t actually that bad. We had 4 tries disallowed by the video referee, all barring the BMM decision seemed to be the correct call. Point is though that we carved the Leigh defence open and got the ball in each case over the white line. On another day we’d have scored each one. We must have bombed another 3 tries through poor decision making, the one that stands out of the most was Junior’s break when a simple pass outside to Evalds would have seen us in and probably under the sticks for a 6 pointer.

If we played them again next week at the AJ I would be more than confident of a 18+ point victory. That isn’t meant in a disrespectful manner towards Leigh, but on another day where we had of been far more clinical it would have been a similar outcome on Saturday.

After the game I was angry. But looking back I was probably angered by a combination of a few things;

1. A local derby that we had just been beaten in.
2. Beaten by a team in the division below.
3. Having 4 tries referred to the VR and (rightly) not given.
4. Leigh scoring a try when Drinkwaters kick takes a nasty deflection into the arms of McNally to score under the posts.
5. Tongas wonder pass to secure the victory.
6. Sa’u not giving the pass to Evalds.

Credit where credit is due to Leigh they did everything they had to and deserved the win. They rode their luck which every Championship team is going to need to do to beat Super League opposition. Will they get that same amount of luck against Huddersfield and Hull KR? I doubt it, but those teams aren’t as good as we are either.

We can afford to lose 2 games and still be OK but it just makes Friday night’s game against Hull KR far more bigger than it needed to be. If we win that we will be safe as neither Fev, London or Batley will trouble us.

I hope Leigh manage to beat one of either KR or Huddersfield and make it up. Apart from the result I enjoyed the day. Great away day for us and met plenty of decent Leigh fans in the town afterwards who were very complimentary about us etc.

Watch this back... I've heard a lot of people talking about this. Put yourself in the position of Sau and look at the position of Evalds when it hit the right time to pass that ball. Evalds had almost over ran Sau giving Junior no option other that to go himself.