2020 Salford Red Devils season

2020 Salford Red Devils season
Super League Rank	10
2020 record	Wins: 2; draws: 0; losses: 5
Points scored	For: 84; against: 164
Team information
Chairman	Ian Blease
Head Coach	Ian Watson
Captain	Mark Flanagan
Stadium	AJ Bell Stadium Barton-upon-Irwell, Greater Manchester
Avg. attendance	4,260
Agg. attendance	21,297
High attendance	4,796
Low attendance	3,350
Top scorers
Tries	Ken Sio (6)
Goals	Tui Lolohea (9)
Points	Tui Lolohea (30)
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This article details the Salford Red Devils's rugby league football club's 2020 season.

Fixtures and results

  Win  Draw  Loss

• All fixtures are subject to change

Challenge Cup

Date and Time	Rnd	Versus	H/A	Venue	Result	Score	Tries	Goals	Attendance	TV	Report
CANCELLED	6	St Helens	H	AJ Bell Stadium

Salford Red Devils's sixth round opener was due to be against the previous season's champions St Helens, to whom they were runners-up in the Grand Final. However, like all Round 6 ties, it was postponed and eventually cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^{[ citation needed ]} Salford was one of a number of teams to receive a bye to the quarter-finals.

Round	Opposition	Score
Quarter-final	Catalans Dragons	W 22–18 [lower-alpha 1]
Semi-final	Warrington Wolves	W 24–22
Final	Leeds Rhinos	L 16-17 report

Regular season

• All fixtures are subject to change

Date and Time	Rnd	Versus	H/A	Venue	Result	Score	Tries	Goals	Attendance	TV	Report
2 February, 19:45	1	St Helens	A	Totally Wicked Stadium	L	8–48	Sio	Lolohea (2)	12,008	Sky sports	Report
8 February, 14:00	2	Toronto Wolfpack	H	AJ Bell Stadium	W	24–16	Brown, Lolohea, Williams, Sarginson, Evalds	Lolohea (2)	4,593		Report
14 February, 19:45	3	Huddersfield Giants	H	AJ Bell Stadium	L	10–12	Sio, Sarginson	Lolohea	3,350	Sky Sports	Report
22 February, 14:00	4	Leeds Rhinos	H	AJ Bell Stadium	L	8–22	Evalds, Lolohea	—	4,757		Report
7 March, 17:00	5	Catalans Dragons	A	Stade Gilbert Brutus	L	12–30	Evalds, Sio	Lolohea, Sio	7,904
1 March, 15:00	6	Wakefield Trinity	H	AJ Bell Stadium	L	12–22	Sio (2), Lolohea	—	3,801
13 March, 19:45	7	Wigan Warriors	H	AJ Bell Stadium	W	18–14	Evalds (2), Brown	Lolohea (3)	4,796	Sky Sports
TBC [lower-alpha 2]	8	Castleford Tigers	H	AJ Bell Stadium
TBC [lower-alpha 2]	9	Hull FC	A	KCOM Stadium
11 April, 15:00	10	Warrington Wolves	A	Halliwell Jones Stadium
17 April, 19:45	11	Hull Kingston Rovers	A	KCOM Craven Park						Sky Sports
26 April, 19:45	12	Huddersfield Giants	A	John Smiths Stadium
1 May, 19:45	13	Leeds Rhinos	A	Headingley Stadium
17 May, 15:00	14	Catalans Dragons	H	AJ Bell Stadium
23 May, 17:15	15	(Magic Weekend) St Helens	N	St James' Park					Sky Sports
31 May, 15:00	16	Toronto Wolfpack	H	AJ Bell Stadium
12 June, 19:45	17	Hull Kingston Rovers	H	AJ Bell Stadium
18 June, 19:45	18	Warrington Wolves	H	AJ Bell Stadium
28 June, 15:00	19	Leeds Rhinos	H	AJ Bell Stadium
3 July, 18:00	20	Castleford Tigers	A	Mend-A-Hose Jungle
11 July, 18:30	21	Toronto Wolfpack	A	Lamport Stadium
24 July, 19:45	22	Wigan Warriors	A	DW Stadium
2 August, 15:00	23	Hull FC	H	AJ Bell Stadium
9 August, 15:00	24	St Helens	H	AJ Bell Stadium						Sky Sports
16 August, 15:00	25	Wakefield Trinity	A	The Mobile Rocket Stadium
21 August, 19:45	26	Huddersfield Giants	A	John Smiths Stadium
30 August, 15:00	27	Wigan Warriors	A	DW Stadium
4 September, 19:45	28	Warrington Wolves	H	AJ Bell Stadium
11 September, 19:45	29	Hull FC	A	KCOM Stadium

1. After golden point extra time
2. as a result of the covid 19 outbreak, the RFL announced that all rugby league games would be suspended initially until/at least 4 April.

League standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PP	Pts	PCT	Qualification [lower-alpha 1]
1	Wigan Warriors (L)	17	13	0	4	408	278	146.8	26	76.47	Semi-finals
2	St Helens (C)	17	12	0	5	469	195	240.5	24	70.59
3	Warrington Wolves [upper-alpha 1]	17	12	0	5	365	204	178.9	24	70.59	Elimination semi-finals
4	Catalans Dragons	13	8	0	5	376	259	145.2	16	61.54
5	Leeds Rhinos	17	10	0	7	369	390	94.6	20	58.82
6	Hull F.C.	17	9	0	8	405	436	92.9	18	52.94
7	Huddersfield Giants [upper-alpha 2]	18	7	0	11	318	367	86.6	14	38.89
8	Castleford Tigers	16	6	0	10	328	379	86.5	12	37.50
9	Salford Red Devils [upper-alpha 3]	18	8	0	10	354	469	75.5	16	44.44
10	Wakefield Trinity	19	5	0	14	324	503	64.4	10	26.32
11	Hull Kingston Rovers	17	3	0	14	290	526	55.1	6	17.65

Source: BBC Sport
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points difference; 3) Number of points scored;
(C) Champions; (L) League Leaders' Shield Winners
Notes:

1. Where teams have the same win percentage, position is decided by points scored percentage (points scored divided by points conceded). ^[1]

Player statistics

# Player Position Tries Goals DG Points Red Cards Yellow Cards 1 Niall Evalds Fullback 5 0 0 20 0 0 2 Ed Chamberlain Wing 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Kris Welham Centre 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 Dan Sarginson Centre 2 0 0 8 0 0 5 Krisnan Inu Wing 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 Tui Lolohea Stand-off 3 9 0 30 0 0 7 Kevin Brown Scrum-half 2 0 0 8 0 1 8 Lee Mossop Prop 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 Joey Lussick Hooker 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 Gil Dudson Prop 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 Ryan Lannon Loose forward 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 Pauli Pauli Second-row 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 Tyrone McCarthy Second-row 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 Sebastine Ikahihifo Prop 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 Adam Walker Prop 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 Greg Burke Loose forward 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 Luke Yates Loose forward 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 Chris Atkin Hooker 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 Mark Flanagan Second-row 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 Josh Johnson Prop 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 James Greenwood Prop 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 Rhys Williams Wing 1 0 0 4 0 0 23 Ken Sio Wing 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 Elliot Kear Centre 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 Connor Jones Fullback 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 Jack Ormondroyd Prop 0 0 0 0 0 0

• As of Round 7 (15 March 2020)

2020 squad

2020 Salford Red Devils Squad

First team squad								Coaching staff
1 Niall Evalds – FB, WG 2 Ed Chamberlain – WG 3 Kris Welham – CE 4 Dan Sarginson – CE, WG, FB 5 Krisnan Inu – CE, WG 6 Tui Lolohea – SO, WG, FB 7 Kevin Brown – SO, CE, SH, LF 8 Lee Mossop – PR 9 Joey Lussick – HK 10 Gil Dudson – PR 11 Ryan Lannon – LF, SR 12 Pauli Pauli – SR, PR 13 Tyrone McCarthy – SR, LF		14 Sebastine Ikahihifo – PR, SR 15 Adam Walker – PR 16 Greg Burke – PR, LF 17 Luke Yates – LF, PR 18 Chris Atkin – SH, SO, HK 19 Mark Flanagan (vc) – LF, SR 20 Josh Johnson – PR 21 James Greenwood – PR, SR 22 Rhys Williams – WG, CE 23 Ken Sio – WG, FB 24 Elliot Kear – FB, CE, WG 25 Connor Jones – FB 26 Jack Ormondroyd – PR		27 28				Head coach Ian Watson Legend: (c) Captain(s) (vc) Vice-captain(s)

2020 transfers

Gains

Player	Club	Contract	Date
Tui Lolohea	Leeds Rhinos	2 years	June 2019 [5]
Chris Atkin	Hull Kingston Rovers	N/A	September 2019 [6]
James Greenwood	Hull Kingston Rovers	1 year	September 2019 [7]
Kevin Brown	Warrington Wolves	1 year	September 2019 [8]
Pauli Pauli	Wakefield Trinity	N/A	September 2019 [9]
Connor Jones	Featherstone Rovers	N/A	September 2019 [10]
Jack Ormondroyd	Featherstone Rovers	N/A	September 2019 [11]
Dan Sarginson	Wigan Warriors	N/A	October 2019 [12]
Rhys Williams	London Broncos	N/A	October 2019 [13]
Elliot Kear	London Broncos	N/A	October 2019 [13]
Luke Yates	London Broncos	N/A	October 2019 [13]
Ryan Lannon	Hull Kingston Rovers	Swap Deal	October 2019 [14]
Sebastine Ikahihifo	Huddersfield Giants	Season Loan	November 2019 [15]

Losses

Player	Club	Contract	Date
Josh Jones	Hull F.C.	2 years	May 2019 [16]
Jake Bibby	Wigan Warriors	2 years	June 2019 [17]
Jackson Hastings	Wigan Warriors	2 years	June 2019 [18]
Robert Lui	Leeds Rhinos	2 years	June 2019 [19]
George Griffin	Castleford Tigers	2 years	July 2019 [20]
Derrell Olpherts	Castleford Tigers	3 years	July 2019 [21]
Josh Wood	Wakefield Trinity	2 years	October 2019 [22]
Daniel Murray	Hull Kingston Rovers	Swap Deal	October 2019 [23]
Greg Johnson	Bradford Bulls	1 year	November 2019 [24]
Logan Tomkins	Widnes Vikings	2 Years	November 2019 [25]
Adam Walker	Released		February 2020 [26]

References

1. "2020 Betfred Super League Competition Update". Rugby Football League. 9 September 2020. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
2. "Super League: Huddersfield v Castleford, and Warrington v Salford cancelled". BBC Sport. 28 October 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
3. "Huddersfield season officially over". www.giantsrl.com. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
4. "Salford Red Devils: Super League club deducted three wins over financial breach". BBC Sport. 3 November 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
5. "Robert Lui & Tui Lolohea: Leeds Rhinos & Salford Red Devils agree swap". 26 June 2019 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
6. "Chris Atkin: Hull Kingston Rovers halfback to make Salford Red Devils move". BBC Sport. 4 September 2019.
7. "James Greenwood makes Salford switch early". 10 September 2019.
8. "Salford confirm signing of Kevin Brown". 20 September 2019.
9. "Pauli Pauli to make Salford move for 2020". 6 September 2019.
10. "Jones Joins Red Devils". 16 September 2019.
11. "Salford announce double signing". 14 September 2019.
12. "Dan Sarginson: Salford Red Devils sign Wigan Warriors centre". BBC Sport. 19 August 2019.
13. "Elliot Kear, Rhys Williams & Luke Yates join from London Broncos". BBC Sport. 17 October 2019.
14. "Ryan Lannon makes permanent Salford return". 25 October 2019.
15. "Salford confirm capture of Sebastine Ikahihifo". 4 November 2019.
16. "Josh Jones agrees Hull switch".
17. "Jake Bibby joins Wigan". 6 June 2019.
18. "Hastings to become a Warrior". 8 July 2019.
19. "Leeds Rhinos sign Robert Lui as Tui Lolohea heads to Salford Red Devils". www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk.
20. "Castleford Tigers confirm signing of George Griffin from Salford". www.pontefractandcastlefordexpress.co.uk.
21. "Derrell Olpherts: Castleford sign Salford Red Devils winger on three-year deal". BBC Sport. 2 July 2019.
22. "Josh Wood: Wakefield Trinity sign Salford Red Devils hooker". BBC Sport. 21 October 2019.
23. "Daniel Murray and Ryan Lannon: Salford Red Devils and Hull KR in swap deal". BBC Sport. 25 October 2019.
24. "Bradford Bulls capture Salford Red Devils winger Greg Johnson". www.yorkshirepost.co.uk.
25. "Widnes pull off Logan Tomkins coup". November 2019.
26. "Salford part ways with Adam Walker". 21 February 2020.

1. Salford forfeited a game against Warrington. Under RFL operational rules, the game is recorded as a 24–0 victory for Warrington and converse loss for Salford with the points scored/conceded applying to both teams. ^[2]
2. Huddersfield were placed on standby to take the place of any of the four teams in the elimination finals should one be unable to fulfil their fixture. ^[3]
3. Salford deducted three wins by the Rugby Football League for failing to meet the terms of a financial commitment agreed in 2013. ^[4]

External links

• Official website
• Super League website