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Veivers Names First 19-Man Squad Of The Season

The start of the new season of the Stobart Super League is so close now you can almost smell it.

Reds' Head Coach Phil Veivers has named his first 19 Man Squad of the season and includes recent addition hooker, Stuart Howarth in a full-strength line-up for the opening clash against Castleford Tigers at Salford City Stadium on Saturday (6pm).

Stephen Wild takes over as Captain with Luke Patten as vice-captain, freeing up playmaker Daniel Holdsworth to concentrate on getting the Reds around the park.

Wild is excited about the season opener and looking forward to leading out the Reds on a historic night.

"We want to get people excited about the club again and want to get people down here. If we put in a good performance against Cas and hopefully get a win against them on Sky it’s only going to help us," he said.

"It’s a great honour to captain the side, especially coming into the new stadium. Hopefully it will be the start of something big."

Veivers himself has made o brash promises but will doubtless have his own internal set of targets he would like this side to achieve, and one of them will be to get off to a good start against Ian Millward's men.

Reds 19-Man Squad to face Castleford Tigers: Patten, Broughton, Gleeson, Moon, Williams, Holdsworth, Smith, Jewitt, Godwin, James, Ashurst, McPherson, Wild (c), Nero, Adamson, Anderson, Howarth, Palea'aesina, Gledhill

Please note, the curtain raiser between the Reds U20s and the Tigers U20s due to kick off at 3.45pm has now been postponed.