Warrington will run with Williams and one from Leyland or Hayes as half back.

Whoever gets the first go will presumably depend on how Hayes has gone in training post-injury, but Burgess was very happy with him as first-choice last year so I don't expect that to change.

Dufty will be full back; I'd expect Taylor-Wray to play 8-10 first team games and be first understudy to Dufty.

Agree with this, I am expecting Hayes will be first call going into start of the season barring any injury concerns but expect Leyland will be pushing for that spot. Dufty at full back all day long but Taylor- Wray will surely get some game time same applies to Lindop.

Apparently Alfie Johnson has been hugely impressive in training and is way ahead of where Sam and co expected him to be. Will be interesting when he gets an opportunity.

Great. I love a bit of good news. Looking forward to the Widnes game now Winter is over.

Salford lost the least of all SL clubs last season - they are just in trouble because they don't have a wealthy benefactor. Where would we be without M&M?
rather than trying to cherry pick from their carcass, wouldn't it be better if the clubs got together to try to work out a plan to keep them going as a viable SL club pending some meaningful outside investment?
If we don't start looking at the bigger picture we might not have a professional game to support soon, they could be the first of many dominoes to fall.

Fair enough….they can have Ratchford

Didn't they do that with the £0.5M early cash injection / emergency loan? Salford must have known about this cash flow crisis well in advance but still managed to sign Chris Hill, Bullock, Esan Marsters etc. Plenty of clubs would like central financial assistance to gain entry to/remain in Superleague. Clubs with bigger underlying support bases (Bradford/Widnes) and well run clubs like York. Maybe Salford need to accept they are a Championship level club in terms of finances.

Apparently salary cap dispensation for players signed from Salford. I hope we are picking over the carcass.

There is a caveat to that though it will only count for this season so any players signed will have to be implemented into the cap if signed for more than one season.

Ah, so which is it?

1. Players signed with contracts > 1 year will count on 2026 and beyond cap.

2. Players signed with contracts > 1 year will count on 2025 and 2026 and beyond cap.