Exclusive: France prop Justin Sangare spoke out about the ongoing crisis at Super League’s bottom club after huge 80-6 loss at Hull FC.
18:29, 10 Aug 2025Updated 18:29, 10 Aug 2025
Salford Red Devils’ Justin Sangare, middle, tries chasing down Hull FC’s Zak Hardaker
Gutted prop Justin Sangare surveyed Salford’s wreckage and admitted: “It’s so sad seeing what’s happened.” The France international was left helpless as the financially-crippled Red Devils shipped 80 points for the second time this season.
He’s one of the few senior players left with 13 of his team-mates now gone, four more sold this week to help pay the bills as a botched takeover continues to fester. Fed-up Salford fans let their still silent owners know what they felt today, chanting ‘you’re not fit to run our club’, and there can be few arguments as Hull ran up one of the biggest scores in the sport’s history.
There were SIX loanee debutants after the crisis-torn club were given special dispensation to fill huge voids in their playing squad. Ex-Leeds forward Sangare, 27, conceded: “It’s hard. It is very tough.
“But the only thing you can do is get on, be patient and see what’s going to happen next. I have a contract and when I start, I finish everything I do.
“But it’s sad to see the boys leave. They have their own journey and it’s different. It is what it is. It’s professional sport.
“For the moment, I don’t know what I will do next. The only thing I can say is I’ll just go game to game and see what happens.
“The fans are waiting to see anything from the owners. I think they keep quiet because there is something coming. I think – I hope – but I understand why the fans are getting angry.”
Salford were hammered 82-0 when Paul Rowley fielded a largely second string team against St Helens in February. But the coach could never have imagined they’d still be in such a mess six months on and suffering similar misery.
Rowley said he felt “numb” and added: “This sport is too hard to meet people for the first time on the bus on the way to a stadium against a team like this. It’s a sad situation. Upsetting.”
All sorts of records tumbled on a humiliating day for Super League. Winger Lewis Martin scored four tries, taking his season tally to 27, the most by any Hull player in a Super League season.
On-loan Leigh hooker Brad Dwyer’s 77th minute try, though, meant Salford at least avoided a whitewash, Riley Lumb converting.
Wigan duo Harvey Makin and Taylor Kerr, Leeds pair Lumb and Ben Littlewood plus St Helens’ Ciaran Nolan also came in.
Hull welcomed back John Asiata and Will Pryce from injury as they fired back into the top six. Jed Cartwright (2), Harvey Barron (2), Davy Litten (2), Herman Ese’ese, Cade Cust and Amir Bourouh all scored tries.
Tom Briscoe also got over for his 100th in Black and Whites colours while Zak Hardaker booted 12 conversions.
But Hull boss John Cartwright admitted: “It’s a tough situation for everyone.”