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Re: Squad for Salford : Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:50 pm  
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You expect so much more from him though, don’t know if he’s distracted off the field or something or if he’s just not as good as he once was but it’s worrying.


You do and I agree completely. Hopefully it’s just one of those seasons where it’s not gone well and his heads dropped. It looks to me like a confidence issue. A big pre season and pre season games and you’d like to think he’d be at the standards (or near to) he set
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Re: Squad for Salford : Wed Oct 02, 2019 5:53 pm  
NickyKiss wrote:
Doesn’t look like we’ll see anything other than minor tweaks. From that list I’d go-

Sarginson
French Hardaker Gildart Marshall
Williams Leuluai
Flower Powell Navarette
Isa Farrell Smithies

Subs-Clubb Partington Lockers Byrne

Leaving out Hankinson and Burgess. Hand on heart though I think we’ll just see Sarg for Hankinson.


Why do you guys keep wanting to move Hardaker from Full Back?
He is the best in SL at FB so why the desire to move him?
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Re: Squad for Salford : Wed Oct 02, 2019 6:09 pm  
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Why do you guys keep wanting to move Hardaker from Full Back?
He is the best in SL at FB so why the desire to move him?


He may have been the best at one point (when Tomkins wasn’t in the league or injured) and he may be again in the future but he isn’t this season and he looks well down on pace at the minute. He’s had a good season, he’s possibly been our best player but we need players making ground from all over the back line to make up for the shortcomings of our forwards and fullback is the most crucial position to enable us to do that. Sarginson is a workaholic and each and every time he’s played at fullback for us he’s made masses of ground. It would simply be a tactical decision.

Not that it will happen mind.
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Re: Squad for Salford : Wed Oct 02, 2019 6:50 pm  
What’s Burgess meant to do, score 90m tries every time he gets the ball?
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Re: Squad for Salford : Wed Oct 02, 2019 7:12 pm  
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What’s Burgess meant to do, score 90m tries every time he gets the ball?


French and Marshall should be starting wingers because they’re the best 2 we have fit but some of the stick burgess gets is too much imo, these last few weeks hes has very few attacking opportunities and when he has he’s done well, it’s his defence that’s suspect
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Re: Squad for Salford : Wed Oct 02, 2019 8:37 pm  
This is the weakness of the top 5 system. After beating the Reds and going into an away game against the leaders, our reward is a game on the back of a loss, against a team that has just won.
We therefore have a repeat of the last outing vs Reds but with the momentum reversed.

tough game coming up. i think the bookies have this wrong and its far more 50/50 than odds on wigan now.
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Re: Squad for Salford : Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:07 pm  
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This is the weakness of the top 5 system. After beating the Reds and going into an away game against the leaders, our reward is a game on the back of a loss, against a team that has just won.
We therefore have a repeat of the last outing vs Reds but with the momentum reversed.

tough game coming up. i think the bookies have this wrong and its far more 50/50 than odds on wigan now.


I agree it will be a tough game but if someone said to you before the season we would have to beat Salford at home to make the grand final you would have ripped their arms off.

If we play well we should win if we dont we dont deserve to get to Old Trafford
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Re: Squad for Salford : Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:13 pm  
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This is the weakness of the top 5 system. After beating the Reds and going into an away game against the leaders, our reward is a game on the back of a loss, against a team that has just won.
We therefore have a repeat of the last outing vs Reds but with the momentum reversed.

tough game coming up. i think the bookies have this wrong and its far more 50/50 than odds on wigan now.

Yeah I like having a top 5 and get that this system rewards finishing higher, but it's too likely to repeat games IMO. I'd go:

Week 1 - Wildcard weekend
A - 4 (Warrington) v 5 (Castleford)

Week 2 - Semi Finals
B - 1 (Saints) v Winner A (Castleford)
C - 2 (Wigan) v 3 (Salford)

Week 3 - Final
Winner B (Saints) v Winner C (Wigan)

That would remove the repeat fixtures and most likely give you the same final you would get anyway IMO. 1st don't get two bites at the cherry, but they do get a week off then a game against the theoretically weakest opposition who have just had to play a tough knockout game.
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Re: Squad for Salford : Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:20 pm  
Grimmy wrote:
Yeah I like having a top 5 and get that this system rewards finishing higher, but it's too likely to repeat games IMO. I'd go:

Week 1 - Wildcard weekend
A - 4 (Warrington) v 5 (Castleford)

Week 2 - Semi Finals
B - 1 (Saints) v Winner A (Castleford)
C - 2 (Wigan) v 3 (Salford)

Week 3 - Final
Winner B (Saints) v Winner C (Wigan)

That would remove the repeat fixtures and most likely give you the same final you would get anyway IMO. 1st don't get two bites at the cherry, but they do get a week off then a game against the theoretically weakest opposition who have just had to play a tough knockout game.

The top 5 system works much better for sure but isn't in need of being tweaked mainly, as you rightly say to cut out repeat fixtures,i like the look of the system you suggest.
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Re: Squad for Salford : Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:55 pm  
The team finishing 1st should not get a week off as a prize, They have been given the hub cap as the prize for finishing 1st, Top 4, all 4 teams, two games, winners to the final, That'll do for me
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