1. Luke Patten

2. Jodie Broughton

3. Mark Henry

4. Chris Nero

5. Ashley Gibson

6. Stefan Ratchford

7. Daniel Holdsworth

8. Ray Cashmere

9. Wayne Godwin

10. Lee Jewitt

11. Vinnie Anderson

12. Phil Bailey

13. Stephen Wild

14. Matty Smith

15. Luke Adamson

16. Rob Parker

17. Iafeta Palea'aesina

18. Adam Sidlow

19. Ryan Boyle

20. Sean Gleeson

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22. Adam Neal

23. Mark Sneyd

24. Gareth Owen

25. Jack Spencer

26. Toby Adamson

27. Adam Clay

Ratchford back at stand-off and Matty Smith at interchange hooker then. I bet a few people will be happy with that.

I wouldn't be happy I'd rather Holdsworth play stand-off because he has the abilty to put players through gaps from first reciever. Quality half backs like DH always appear to have time on the ball before releasing it at the exact right moment. How ofter do you see a player make a pass too early because their focus has switched to thinking about taking a hit? Holdsworth to me seems calm headed and brave and he's prepared to take the impact of the tackle for the benefit of creating space for a teammate.



I know the scrum half and stand-off positions are more similar these days with one playing left and one right but I'd rather have Holdsworth creating attacking plays from scrum situations. (Rather than just feeding a scrum and making a simple pass to say Ratchford)

A fair few of the team sheets had Holdsworth down as the scrum-half last year. League Express also classed him as a scrum-half in their 2010 polls.

Could it simply be that M Smith likes the number 14 shirt? Besides, it saves him changing his twitter name.

Like I said the two positions are very similar these days but I think not having Holdsworth in the stand-off (First reciever) role from attacking scrum situations would be a mistake.



As for the league express I personally think it was more a case of giving him some recognition due to the high standard of stand-offs in the top 5 list.

I doubt it. In the match reports they had Holdsworth down as scrum-half for plenty, backing up the interchangeability of the two positions that you highlighted.

Best squad iv'e seen at Salford in 20 years, i hope they don't let us down.

Probably just keeping the same numbers as last season.

, Remember Kevin McGuinness Squad number - 33

doesn't mean Smith won't be first choice



second Red League's comment easily the best squad we've assembled for some time , hopefully that will equate with competition and places to be fought for .

I wouldn't read too much into the holdsworth, ratchford, smith numbers. I still think Holdsorth and Smith will be the main starting SO and SH



Wasn't Adamson Snr at 12 last year? If so seems a bit harsh to lose it (although i know it doesn't mean too much)



Wonder who they've got in mind for 21........

Thinking about it, you're probably right.



Reading the comments about us having the best squad for 20 years brings back bad memories of '07

Hopefully we're more successful this year than we were that season...

The player quality is alot better than the 07 team imo.

very good squad that plenty of depth and versitile players, a bit of quality in there aswell can see salford really challenging for the top 8 and i wunt be suprised if you did get in the 8. and really good to see some young home grown players in there aswell hopefully they will get a bit of game time, good luck anyways