Re: Salford : Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:19 am  

Warrington will run with Williams and one from Leyland or Hayes as half back.

Whoever gets the first go will presumably depend on how Hayes has gone in training post-injury, but Burgess was very happy with him as first-choice last year so I don't expect that to change.

Dufty will be full back; I'd expect Taylor-Wray to play 8-10 first team games and be first understudy to Dufty.

Re: Salford : Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:32 am  

just_browny wrote:

Warrington will run with Williams and one from Leyland or Hayes as half back.

Whoever gets the first go will presumably depend on how Hayes has gone in training post-injury, but Burgess was very happy with him as first-choice last year so I don't expect that to change.

Dufty will be full back; I'd expect Taylor-Wray to play 8-10 first team games and be first understudy to Dufty.

Agree with this, I am expecting Hayes will be first call going into start of the season barring any injury concerns but expect Leyland will be pushing for that spot. Dufty at full back all day long but Taylor- Wray will surely get some game time same applies to Lindop.

Re: Salford : Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:49 am  

Apparently Alfie Johnson has been hugely impressive in training and is way ahead of where Sam and co expected him to be. Will be interesting when he gets an opportunity.

Re: Salford : Mon Jan 13, 2025 11:13 am  

Matt King's kitten wrote:

Apparently Alfie Johnson has been hugely impressive in training and is way ahead of where Sam and co expected him to bew. Will be interesting when he gets an opportunity.

Great. I love a bit of good news. Looking forward to the Widnes game now Winter is over.

Re: Salford : Mon Jan 13, 2025 2:11 pm  

Salford lost the least of all SL clubs last season - they are just in trouble because they don't have a wealthy benefactor. Where would we be without M&M?
rather than trying to cherry pick from their carcass, wouldn't it be better if the clubs got together to try to work out a plan to keep them going as a viable SL club pending some meaningful outside investment?
If we don't start looking at the bigger picture we might not have a professional game to support soon, they could be the first of many dominoes to fall.

Re: Salford : Mon Jan 13, 2025 3:06 pm  

Fair enough….they can have Ratchford

Re: Salford : Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:53 pm  

Crosswire wrote:

Salford lost the least of all SL clubs last season - they are just in trouble because they don't have a wealthy benefactor. Where would we be without M&M?
rather than trying to cherry pick from their carcass, wouldn't it be better if the clubs got together to try to work out a plan to keep them going as a viable SL club pending some meaningful outside investment?
If we don't start looking at the bigger picture we might not have a professional game to support soon, they could be the first of many dominoes to fall.

Didn't they do that with the £0.5M early cash injection / emergency loan? Salford must have known about this cash flow crisis well in advance but still managed to sign Chris Hill, Bullock, Esan Marsters etc. Plenty of clubs would like central financial assistance to gain entry to/remain in Superleague. Clubs with bigger underlying support bases (Bradford/Widnes) and well run clubs like York. Maybe Salford need to accept they are a Championship level club in terms of finances.