My lad and a few of his fellow Rovers fans are heading to Salford tonight to support their pal Will Gardiner on his debut.

Connor, Litten, Wynne, Longstaff, Vulikijapani, Smith, Gale, Evans, Johnstone, Taylor, Lane, Fash, Sao

Bench: Balmforth, Gardiner, McNamara, Satae

Good to see yet another debut. One silver lining to the packed treatment room.
Can't see us getting much out the game but hopefully they'll give it a dig.

So much for boosting the confidence of Barron
The lad will be gutted to lose his place especially when there is nothing to play for
I will be really glad to see the back of this coach as i think he is clueless.

Or we're protecting him, and still giving Litten a shot

How do you know Brett hasn't got him pencilled in for Sunday with the short turnaround?
I know you don't rate him but its so relentlessly negative over everything.

You dont drop the lad you boost his confidence by selecting him again even though he made a couple of errors.

Brett as you call him as though he is your mate hasnt got a clue
If Litten scores a try or two tonight then he drops him and plays Barron on Sunday?
This idiot is more likely to play Johnstone on the wing.
The season is finished.No reason to further knock the confidence of Barron by dropping him.
He should be boosting his confidence by playing him tonight

OT: Around ten thousand at Toulouse tonight. They are going to be a big loss to Super League.

Ok

You're so highly strung

Apologies, I'll refer to him as Mr Hodgson from now on.

Absolutely. A real shame they couldn't stay up.
Hopefully they'll expand to 14 teams soon and they'll be back in.

Hang on a minute here.

One hand you want players dropped who dont perform and the other you want them to play to gain confidence.

One thing which is concrete is Barron is nowhere near ready for this level, correct decision to remove him from the firing line for me.

Shouldnt bother as he wont be here much longer

Will Gardiner becomes the 37th player we've used this season in 27 games.

In comparison in 2016 we used just 27 players in 35 games.

Six thousand more than the club who played at home a couple of weeks back and only got Four thousand .

Never expected we'd be leading at half time!
I do think it will be a different story by full time but happy to see such an understrength team competing well so far.

OK first half? Salford in good form and not many missing.

Mind you we were doing ok at half time at Huddersfield a couple of weeks back.

Can we call for full time now

Sounds like we have made a decent fist of it in the first half. Hope they can keep things going in second half and at least complete win or lose.

Smith having a good game

A Salford fan actually messaged in saying its still a strong Hull side hahahaha can I have some of what he's smoking.

Absolutely Decimated.

Swift
Carlos
Griffin
Cator
Mau
Houghton
Lovodua
Macintosh
Scott
Brown
Laidlaw
Savelio

Have I missed anyone?

Walker.

Worst injury crisis since Peter was coach in 2013.

That's Mr Gentle to you!