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Completely agree. I went to the game expecting a cricket score and while it was a 40 point margin, I thought Salford were really good. They gave it everything and got stuck in to Wigan. Even the Wigan end applauded that late try. It's a sad situation and it must be a tough watch for those Salford fans but full credit to them. It was a much better night all round than I was expecting.

Toss up if I'm more surprised by the comeback or safety first Smith not going up to the screen......oh Leigh have called his bluff!

I think they've looked at Barcelona and thought 'we'll have a bit of that', although paying this months wages on the basis of them being able to shift a thousand hot dogs in April 2028 seems a risky strategy.

Hoping to see a couple of fringe players get a run out for Wigan (certainly Farrimond at the very least). I don't like to see it but I'd be surprised if we win by less than 50+ looking at the Salford squad. It won't be a game I'll take too much pleasure from and can only wish I was going there half expecting to get beat (as I was on our visits there last season).

Lets have it right, he's not been available most of the time due to injury, which has been the same with 2 or 3 Saints players. He'd have loads of caps had he made himself available.

I'm a big Percival fan but can only agree that Wardle and Farnworth are clear at the minute. That footwork again tonight from Wardle was just mesmerising. You throw in his defence and he's just about as well rounded as a centre can be. I would have Percival as next in line though.

Possibly. I think Sam Tomkins is involved in recruitment isn't he? I know he played a big roll in getting Makinson to join (who also looks a really poor signing so far). Looking at the signings, that career back in TV or as suggested this week, him officially taking up refereeing maybe for the best!

Totally agree. They've gone back to those old ways of bringing guys in for a retirement fund top up and it's not the place to get guys in who fancy a paid holiday.

Tough to put in to words how bad Catalans have been. We've been well below par and somehow have absolutely strolled to a 36-0 lead....40-0.

Can't grumble too much when you're winning but we're well off the mark currently. Thankfully Catalans have been dreadful so far.

Another pointless bit of video reffery. No try all day and just because Newman put in a Stuart Broad style appeal shouldn't mean you go up.

True that! and when we win the Ashes at Headingley, it'll mean the next time I'm stood in the away end, in the p*ssing rain, desperate for a pee but moaning about the bogs being half a mile away, I'll just smile and think back to the good times!

When they decided to knock the old place down and start again, it feels like more effort should've been put in to trying to retain some of the original features of the Stadium. I grew up as a kid in the late 80's and early 90's and obviously had a special relationship with the old place as a Wiganer, so maybe it's that but to me Wembley is just the name and it feels nothing like the original stadium. The development around the ground is good in some ways but even though years back it was a bit in the middle of nowhere and there wasn't much around it, I found that added to the atmosphere, with people spending more time sat around the grass banks chatting and having drink/food. Sitting in a Nando's isn't quite the same (although I suppose at least you don't have a bloke having a slash at the back of you when you're getting your butties down you).

Before the rebuild I would absolutely agree but probably not now. It's a bit soulless and is used that often nowadays that it doesn't have that 'special game' feeling for many. I've been to Challenge cup finals, test matches, football internationals, FA cup semis, an FA cup final and boxing there and just find it a bit 'meh'. Maybe I'm just getting miserable in my old age though.

Without knowing the costs associated with each London ground, it's tough to say where you should go but Wembley just feels too big for us at the minute. In fairness though, getting any of the other grounds must be really tricky, with the football season being in full swing in October/November and many of the clubs whose grounds we'd probably like to use (Arsenal/Spurs/Chelsea) expecting to be involved in European competitions (well maybe Spurs weren't but you don't look a gift horse like Man Utd in the mouth).

Tight game. Wigan are coasting in games and switching off and there aren't many worse places to go in that mode than Perpignan. Add in a reaction from Catalans coach being sacked and I think it'll be one that goes to the wire. Catalans by 4

Not much cross over of support in Wigan, although more than some would have you believe (I support both clubs). There's more Wigan Warriors supporters in the town than Wigan Athletic but there are far more football fans in general than there are rugby league fans, it's just that they support Man Utd, Man City, Liverpool, Everton etc and not their home town club.

Bang another zero on and we're talking The RFL have probably seen this and set the target at 20 a day now, so when we're sub 35k, it's your fault!

Trent Robinson their first choice for permanent head coach according to some reports in the press. They'll do well to pull that off.

Ideal club for him. He will be the main man and be allowed his own way and the only other time that happened, he was the best player in the league. Presuming that rules out a future move to Leeds and I would say that's for the best from a Leeds POV.

I know they didn't but I'm talking about the people who do turn up. Any Salford fan paying their money to go and follow them at the minute deserves so much respect. They aren't responsible for the ones who don't go or the ones who didn't go in 2019.

I was amazed how many Salford fans looked to be at Cas on Sunday. Fair play to every one of them turning up, knowing it's likely to be another defeat and knowing how bleak things look. Plenty gets made of the crowds at HKR, Wigan, etc but it's easy to turn up and watch a winning side. In general crowds may be low at Salford, Huddersfield etc but the ones who do go deserve loads of credit.

Thanks for the information. Clearly looks to be plenty of talent and now it's just about getting opportunities. Looking again at the England team, there have been 6 lads who've made Superleague debuts, compared to one from France and you'd imagine the level of talent must be similar. Catalans could never get as many kids chances at the top level as 11 English clubs can for ours combined, however good the French kids are, so it's hard to see how the French senior team kicks on without a real change of approach. Even Toulouse coming in to Superleague won't make a big enough change long term IMO.

I'd imagine Daryl Powell would be enough to scar a Wire fan for life, so I don't blame you!

Always feels like McNamara has had a bit of an unfair bad rep follow him around and I'm not sure why. He did a good job with GB IMO, has experience working in the NRL and has turned Catalans from a bit of a basket case, in to a club that has won a couple of trophies and got to a couple of other finals and who in the main, have competed towards the top end of Superleague. I think he would do well at Leeds and would be a pretty wise appointment to try and continue the good work started by Brad Arthur.