No Kelly tomorrow, apparently.

Kelly confirmed out.

Get the middle 8's thread back on track

One more win from Salford (H), Widnes (H), Hudds (A), Rovers (H) should see us in the top 8. Might be the end of our top 4 hopes though.

Not sure why any of your fans should be worried the way we're playing at the minute. We were cr@p against Catalans and equally as bad against Hudds (who are utter gash). Those 2 games have completely derailed our season and we look mailed on for middle 8's now.

We have little to no pace in our backline, our only specialist FB has a broken leg, we have one decent half in the whole squad and we're missing 3 or 4 of our pack.

Even with your injuries you should beat us comfortably. I'm just glad as I was at the KC last year to see us run riot as this may be the last time we visit Hull in the near future the way things are going!

We need to play tough and smart. Our pack should still dominate theirs, give Connor and Harris plenty of room and we should be able to keep territory well. Connor has an unbelievable bomb kick on him.

Discipline is key as we're marked men now, refs will look for messing around in the ruck. Can't get away with it every week like we're a team of pie eating, barmaid abusers.

what's wrong with him?

Failed a fitness test this morning apparently, must have picked up a knock or made his hammy worse.

thanks, just seems a little odd after him looking like he was saying "goodbye" to St Helens fans. But I'm not in to conspiracies.

Disappointing but the fact he is having a fitness test is positive news. He obviously isnt badly injured if he is having one.

Harris and Connor are plenty good enough to do the job for us if the pack lay a good foundation, they have a bit more to work with outside them now aswell.

sounds like this game bit early after saints game, Radford said he should be ok for wigan game

best to be cautious I guess.

Looks like referees are looking to hammer poor discipline in the ruck by this game so far.

Looks that way and to be fair Child has had a good game. (I can't believe I just said that!!)

Can’t understand why people are worried tomorrow. Ok we had a hard game on Sunday but Salford are poor , very poor . Once we get a lead we’ll be fine , maybe ease off late late on . Us by 14-18 in a poor slow game which I’d take .

I thought he reffed it pretty well tonight . Glad to see the homophobic vitriol he received last week didn't affect his performance.
What really annoyed me was that the time he didn't refer a decision to the VR, rather than just getting on with it, Sky spent the next 5 minutes debating why it wasn't a try.

K

Hope you’re right
Struggling to be optimistic
NO Kelly Houghton MAnu Hadley and the rest
5 day back up after a State Origin type game
Reds rested and will want to win
Hope you’re right !

State of Origin type game? we wish!

We've seen in the last couple of years how hard it is to back up after big cup games so I don't understand how anyone thinks this is going to be an easy game. Wouldn't be at all surprised if we lost and would be happy with any win

If we can’t back it up tonight against a poor Salford side after 1 tough cup game , what chance have we got of winning the grand final after maybe a few weeks of having to win most our last few games against teams around us then a play off semi . Tonight is the perfect fixture after a tough game last week .

we shouldn't underestimate Salford, look at Wigan last night, they underestimated Wakefield and lost.

Good team wakey and I think there’s a bit of trouble at Wigan .

Announcing Wane is leaving when they did was an odd decision.

Apparently shoved before he jumped for innuendo reasons and players aren’t happy.

Think Wakey have proven they are a decent side and continue to improve. Don't think Wigan underestimated Wakey last night they looked more like a team with a problem and Wane announcing he's leaving this early just makes him a dead man walking.

Think tonight will be a difficult game for us due to short turn around and lack of senior players due to injury but hopefully we have enough to get the 2pts.

It could be a "win ugly" one!