Well I am going to vote for Sarge over Zak. I think Zak has lost too much pace and I don't see him producing anything like the form he showed at Castleford either at fullback or at centre. I hope he proves me wrong though. What both players have in bundles is a desire to win.

I'd be far more confident with your team than the one you think Lam will pick. The former in my view is asking for trouble. Whilst both packs are fine, I am concerned about our threequarters - no genuine pace, a young forward at centre and both Bibby and Hardaker looked very lethargic against Salford and were exposed to a decent kicking game.

20 pages on a thread for the team for Friday?
Have people really missed rugby that much or am I missing some sort of earth shattering news when not reading the 20 pages?

Why did you log on to a rugby forum if you didn't want discussion about rugby?

Hang about, chill out mate. It was a genuine question


I don’t find opinions on team predictions interesting but find 99% of other stuff on here interesting so that’s why I’m on here.
I was just genuinely interested to know if I’d missed say a big injury news story or such like without flicking through 20 pages of if Isa is worth a shirt of not etc (opinions which people are fully entitled to before you criticise me for that too

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I guess so, even though you're only playing Leigh. We've had no RL for 12 months, so personally speaking I'm quite giddy, though I'll probably be thinking "I knew we'd get stuffed" at full time.

Good job you know nowt..

No falling out boys it is just a game of rugby.

I think you'll find it's called "recruiting wisely" Nicky.

When you read predictions on most forums Salford are widely tipped as bottom 3 contenders again so the vast majority of RL watchers don't appear to agree with you (asides from us ever-pessimistic Salford fans who think we'll go ok).

I'm sure the "poor old skint Salford" comment is a bit of a dig but all those quality players we've managed to bring in have all been deemed surplus to requirements at other clubs or are wanting a chance to play every week where they may have been squad players elsewhere (Burgess/Sarginson/Taylor/Watkins to name but four). That's how we have to operate to survive/thrive by good coaching and picking up fringe players with hunger/a point to prove etc. Slightly different from cherry (& white

) picking players from "smaller" clubs. We certainly aren't doubling/trebling players wages.

thats all we can do in the uk

I like Salford, my missus and her family are all from Salford, so I class them as my second team if anything. It’s a tongue in cheek jibe but I do smile a little when I hear talk even now that they’re doing it on a shoestring. That is bobbins! They’ve possibly got the deepest squad in the league this season and yes a lot of players were let go by other clubs but guys like Watkins, Lolohea, Taylor, Burgess, Sarginson and on and on won’t be coming cheap. You look at the squad for tomorrow and it’s 21 pretty experienced players.

Amazing what you can save by shelving your academy and letting other clubs do the work I suppose

I know your only joking but it was moneybags Koukash that shelved the academy which by the way is being reintroduced at this skint club with Paul Rowley appointed to the first position of "Head of Rugby Development, Talent and Pathways".

Anyhow whilst there wern't many that came through the ranks we didn't do mediocre regarding local boys like Mozza Betts Watkins Mcavoy etc etc, but what was the point anyway when the likes of you and Leeds nicked them all.