With Addy and Wardill already out before a ball has been kicked if injuries start to bite it might benefit both clubs. Not sure how deep Rovers squad is and not suggesting any of our fringe players will walk into their staring XIII but would surely bolster their bench options!

Obviously its tainted by relegation, but in fairness our 2016 team must be one of the better teams to have been relegated from SL. Finished above a SL in the normal season and in the 8s and it took a moment naivety, a forward pass and an unlucky coin toss to send us down in MPG (never mind the iffy drop goal that landed us in it in the first place). All that said, what seemed like a stubborn refusal to help ourselves by doing anything that offered short-term benefit until Peacock finally pulled up his socks (literally and metaphorically), gave it an air of inevitability.

This year is a blank page. I have some concerns about the team, but the depth of the squad wasn't one of them until this loans idea was floated. With the exception of Blair and Cator (and maybe Salter, if you want to count him as a backrow option), all of our undersized backrowers are out or struggling, it seems. That's astonishing - we've got [iloads[/i of them.

Suppose to be signing tickle our noisey neighbours, bit different to murdoch masila !

Too far now, as if.

Doubt we're getting Lui, from what Rovers and Salford have said about it.

Given the team we were able to field last night, and the fact you've let Rawsthorne go I think the prospect of cross-town loan has receded for now, and maybe any loan-ins for us at all.