LeytherRob

Usually it's Rowley teams showing that energy against Leigh, its nice for the shoe to be on the other foot for a change

If you can post this every week it would be much appreciated

Josh Charnley rolling back the years there!

Are these semi finals being streamed/broadcast anywhere?

He wasn't, a Salford player took out Lam on the inside shoulder earlier in the play resulting in the gap that was created for McDonald. The penalty was given for crossing/obstruction. The commentary team were just clueless and missed the call.

I would imagine any deal offered by Leigh would have been on vastly reduced terms. Think 2 years for a player declining as fast as him is madness to be honest. He’s been very poor this year.

Connor got 3 of them against Saints without ref intervention didn’t he?

It's 2 non fed and 1 fed trained(that fluctuates in cap value depending on if it's a club trained player). Moylan will be a non fed, Lam Jr will be the Fed spot. I'd assume Ipape is probably the other non-fed marquee. Very sad to see Asiata go if true, I was always expecting to lose Amone back to the NRL but thought we might be able to keep Asiata.

To be fair, Salford have been pretty hot and cold this year. They've just been fortunate some of those games were against were against poor or equally underperforming teams. Scraping past Cas in round 2 and London last month immediately spring to mind.

I'm inclined to agree, I think we'll be looking at big minutes for Amone and Trout regardless with no Mulhern or Norman. I'd rather wait until Asiata and Ipape are up to speed before putting a back on the bench.

There was a game in between those, Wakefield away where were were comfortably in front until Drinkwater got injured and we succumbed to a late defeat. We as a club lost our heads after that one which led to the drop off in form(along with a fair few injuries). I think we're in a very different position to then with a much stronger coach and squad. Good to finally see Ipape back, meaning we're pretty much at full strength now except for Mulhern, although i suspect it will be a few weeks until Asiata and Ipape are fully back in the groove. We at least have the luxury of being able to limit Ipape's minutes with Dwyer in the team.

Doesn't surprise me on Amone and unfortunately it's only a matter of time before he heads back to the NRL. He's far too good not to be getting good offers from there.

I don't think random rumours is a particularly accurate description of that piece, it's just a summary of the transfer stories they've broken to date. When Matt Shaw says a deal is done it usually is, in 2022 he broke the news on Jack Hughes, Ollie Holmes, Rob Mulhern, Matt Davis, Jacob Gannon and more to Leigh months before anything was announced officially. 2023 he broke Owen Trout and others to Leigh long before anyone else was discussing it. I think if you revisit that piece in 6 months time the majority of those will come to fruition also.

Wish Warrington could have displayed this level of execution last week

Looked like a double movement to me