{"id":207946,"date":"2025-06-23T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/207946\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:09:08","slug":"paul-rowley-salford-red-devils-boss-sees-green-shoots-of-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/207946\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Rowley: Salford Red Devils boss sees &#8216;green shoots of progress&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Salford Red Devils head coach Paul Rowley has said he can see &#8220;green shoots of progress&#8221; in his side in the midst of a tough 2025 Super League campaign.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club have had a tumultuous time both on and off the field this term with financial problems regarding the club&#8217;s ownership, unpaid wages and player departures overshadowing their campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rowley&#8217;s side were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cm2z49vvvr8o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defeated 38-6 against Hull FC<\/a> on Sunday, putting in a spirited performance, and they remain bottom of the Super League table with just one win this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Like everybody else I&#8217;m fed up, bored of the situation because everybody wants to win. We&#8217;re here to compete. We could almost smell success coming into this season so it&#8217;s been difficult,&#8221; Rowley told BBC Radio Manchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What I will say is that we&#8217;ve got some new additions in and I did feel that this week there were some green shoots of progress and actually in the first half I felt it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the player exodus at the club this term &#8211; including the recent departure of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cx2ew4l9q0ko\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talismanic centre Nene Macdonald<\/a> &#8211; Rowley said that the team spirit in his camp remains high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can&#8217;t remove that amount of serious talent and replace it overnight. It&#8217;s not easy to replace that sort of quality,&#8221; Rowley added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re OK, the mood is consistent. Ultimately we&#8217;ll turn up tomorrow and everybody&#8217;s in each other&#8217;s company and they&#8217;re all best mates so the mood is good.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Salford Red Devils head coach Paul Rowley has said he can see &#8220;green shoots of progress&#8221; in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-207946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114733315773295031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}