Tend to agree with Wilde that we do have a chance of 2nd place, it may well come down to the result in the match between us both at Headingley, it will be tight but definitely a chance especially with the reward of a home tie.

Wigan play Saints away on the Friday after Wembley, so if they don't beat Leeds tonight, I can see their CC final preparations starting very early.

We need to win 5, maybe 6 of our last 7 which would be tough without wembley but I just don't see it with us being in the final. On our day we can beat anyone home or away so I think radford will be more worried about managing the squad and getting into the play offs rather than worrying about where we finish in the 4. Realistically, we blew our top 2 hopes when we lost to leigh and les cats at home and les cats away. 6 points thrown away against teams in the middle 8's now

Don't disagree with what you say but 5 wins is not out of the realms of possibility & I'm not totally convinced Leeds will win more than 3 or 4 themselves, as I said it will be close.
Radford and the players have said all along its about coming good at this time of the season and that lessons were learnt last season. The cup hangover from last year will be no where near the same for obvious reasons and feel as you have said on our day we can beat any team in the 8. If Wigan beat Leeds tonight I think they may struggle the rest of the 8's as there will certainly be no easy games.

The smell of hatred is strong in this one.

The smell of wind up more like and you're chewing hard on every bit of it

I don't hate these small town clubs. it's great when, once in a generation or two, that things go well for them

Good impact bench from salford and its showing
Hull bench looks really weak.
Hull back to giving away penalties and costly mistakes.

Vatuvei and Murdoch Masila almost unstoppable. Uphill battle this.

Terrible, terrible ref.

Ref overrules in goal judge from a kickoff when he's over 30 meters out, absolute joke

Ref has completely lost the plot in this game. Never seen anything like it tbh. Clearly panicking

We played the better rugby in that game. Salford did some good stuff as well but ref ruined what could have been a good contest

Good result, played really well in patches, but poor in others, really didn't handle those kicks well at all.

Salford are a good side with some good players, so happy with the performance,

Last word to Jake Connor, such a talented player who is too good not to be in the 13.

We just dont attack kicks. letting the ball bounce is starting to cause us problems.
Connor is a difficult one when we have everyone fit,because Radford will go with Sneyd/Kelly at half back.
In my opinion Connor is a far better centre than Griffin and offers much more in both attack and defence.
That said if Radford goes with Michaels back to the wing and Fonua to centre then at best its a bench spot for Connor.

Relieved to get the two points. I think it was a good thing to be playing another team involved in the Challenge Cup semis.

Although the errors crept in at times, we had spells especially in the second half where we looked very good. Connor impressed, Houghton was excellent as always and Ellis was typically powerful. Carlos showed what an important player he is for us.

Hopefully Radford continues to have selection headaches.