Kevin Locke : Thu Aug 15, 2013 3:00 pm  

Rumour I heard at my local pub but have spoken to a kiwi friend of mine who's living in Auckland at the minute and he's heard it as well!

Kevin Locke to Salford for 2014. He's out of contract with NZ at the end of the year and with Sam Tomkins going next year, it's unlikely he'll be in contention for the squad next year!

Re: Kevin Locke : Thu Aug 15, 2013 3:19 pm  

Sounds too good to be true. Would sort our kicker problem out though...

Re: Kevin Locke : Thu Aug 15, 2013 3:21 pm  

You got it wrong , it was Joseph Locke .

Re: Kevin Locke : Thu Aug 15, 2013 3:23 pm  

Brilliant player, though can't see him coming to SL as there's bound to be other NRL teams in need of a classy full back. A more likely option would be the Fish who were linked with earlier in the season.

Re: Kevin Locke : Thu Aug 15, 2013 3:39 pm  

It's just part of the rebrand this. Were actually going to be called the Salford All Blacks from 2014. British players are the ones we will have a quota for in our all star Kiwi line up.

Re: Kevin Locke : Thu Aug 15, 2013 7:31 pm  

Very much doubt it will happen, Locke is a class fullback and I believe Tomkins would be played in the halves if he does end up going to Auckland.

Re: Kevin Locke : Thu Aug 15, 2013 7:42 pm  

I heard he has agreed, maybe not signed as yet, a new 2 yr contract with the Warriors & could play at 6 next season.

Re: Kevin Locke : Sat Aug 17, 2013 11:05 am  

NZ Warriors will be worth the premier sports subscription alone with Locke, Johnson, Hurrell, Vatavei and Tomkins in their back line.

As for the above story. More lazy journalism from the Evening News. What ever happened to factual reporting from the local media. If you want to read about random speculation you can buy the Sun. I am not interested in who an ill informed reporter thinks we could sign. The Evening News would be better advised to promote our games and current players more. More column inches to local clubs and also promoting local amateur clubs would only take up a few columns a week. Friday s should include a few sentences about Eccles and Folly Lane. Instead we get rumours that you could hear in the pub at last orders.

Re: Kevin Locke : Mon Aug 19, 2013 7:17 am  

thought the story came from something a person has heard from two sources, not the MEN

Re: Kevin Locke : Tue Aug 20, 2013 9:21 am  

More chance of signing John Locke from Lost, just because Salford have money to burn doesn't mean class players are going to come over from the NRL. I think the Doctor thinks he's playing fantasy football sometimes.