With their fast I pitch. Sunday is the perfect opportunity to utilize our fast backs, get the ball out quickly and blast them to smithereens with our quick no compromising plays.



As it is we'll probably try and out muscle them up the middle and get beat





COME ON SALFORD. LET'S GET THAT FIRST WIN!

The way your lads tore into Saints in the 1st half has me a little concerned with the way we've been defending out wide.I just hope that the mauling we got off Hudd's has given us a kick up the backside and we give you a game. Hope to have Watts,Clarke & Briscoe back from injury,if not I think it will be Salford's day.

I'm not expecting us to win. We should be favourites (bookies are giving Widnes up to an 8 point start). But I think, considering we need people to at least have a look inside our new ground, Salford [ineed[/i to win on Sunday. So that's what makes it a big deal for me.



Considering Sunday afternoon rugby is somewhat of a rarity on our side of the Pennines, it's a good excuse for part-timers to get down and roar the lads on.

Big game, I'm not sure, important, damn right it is, well any way you see it here are the players that will make it happen.



Salford 19: Patten, Broughton, Gleeson, Gibson, Williams, Holdsworth, Smith, Jewitt, Sidlow, James, Anderson, McPherson, Wild, Nero, Adamson, Owen, Howarth, Paleaaesina, Gledhill.



Widnes 19: Ah Van, Allen, Clarke, Craven, Cross, Davies, Flynn, Haggerty, Hanbury, Isa, Kavanagh, Leuluai, Marsh, Mullally, Owens, Pickersgill, Watts, White, Winterstein.

From our experience on the I-Pitch, i'd said the one thing which was noticeable is how hard it is to effectively turn and change direction. Therefore, a back line with pace could be quite destructive on there coupled with a intelligent short kicking game

What about a backline with pace coupled with a disappointing short kicking game?

Three Vikings players suspended for Sunday.



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Thankfully Finnegan is one of them as we all know he'd be on the scoresheet...

1. Owens

2. Flynn

3. Marsh

4. Isa

5. Ah Van

6. Craven

7. Hanbury

8. Cross

9. Watts

10. Davies

11. Allen

12. Winterstein

13. Clarke



14. Mullally

15. Kavanagh

16. White

17: Haggerty



That personally wouldbe my squad for Sunday. Look out for Watts, it will be interesting to see how he plays.

Just noticed Ashurst isn't in the squad, which is a blow as I think he's looked really good so far. Our back line picks itself (big blow not having Joel Moon thought) but it'll be interesting to see what PV does with the pack and who he puts on the bench.



Week one we started with;

Jewitt

Godwin

James

Anderson

Ashurst

Wild

Bench:

Gledhill

Adamson

Howarth

Palea'aesina



Week 2 we went with;

McPherson

Howarth

Gledhill

Ashurst

Adamson

Wild

Bench:

Jewitt

Sidlow

Nero

Owen



So we'll have a different pack for the 3rd straight week. Still no sign of Neal or Boyle.

Trying to forecast what Salford will do is well nigh impossible. As Adamjk stated, we came undone against Crusaders so many times. Widnes present a similar challenge, so who knows. HOWEVER, I think we will win. The big question mark again for me though, is Patten and Holdsworth. If either or both of these actually turn up and give a decent performance it would make a massive difference to our Team.



All that said, I'd be disappointed if we didn't win by at least 10!



..................and if we do fail, Coaches, please don't tell us that they 'trained the house down this week' and they can't understand what happened!!!

depends alot on how we defend for me, going forward I think we look sharp and could score a fair few points, defensively we looked good for 40 mins against saints but tired without the ball so i think a high scoring 36-18 which would be a right result....CMON UUUUUUU REDS!!!!

This has to be a must win, i hope Longy has worked on adapting Pattens link to recieving the ball at 3rd man. We look great spreading the ball up to this point, Patten, has 3-4 options with ball in hand and has failed every time and has chosen the wrong option, the most obvious noticeable pass on was the crash face ball to williams in both games, i'm not slagging Patten, it might be a confidence thing whats going on but it cost's tries, which cost's games, which cost's support, so come on Patten the safe inside ball isn't always the best option.