Ruthless Hull put 14 tries past makeshift Salford side

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Betfred Super LeagueHull FC (50) 80Tries: Martin 4, Barron 2, Cartwright 2, Litten 2, Cust, Ese'ese, Bourouh, Briscoe Goals: Hardaker 12Salford (0) 6Tries: Dwyer Goals: Lumb
Relentless Hull poured more misery on Salford as their makeshift, cobbled-together team were hammered 80-6.Hull scored six tries in 15 first-half minutes alone as they breezed to a 50-0 lead at the break, with Tom Briscoe notching his 100th try for the club in the second half.The match was bordering on the farcical at times as Salford understandably looked like a team full of strangers who had no answer to the hosts, who ran in 14 tries in total - four of them from Lewis Martin.The Red Devils have been hampered by a financial crisis which this week saw Ryan Brierley and Jack Ormondroyd become the 12th and 13th players to leave the club.They signed seven players on loan this week alone, with five debutants in the matchday 17 and squad numbers going up to 63 as they scrabbled just to field a side.A winding-up petition against the club has been adjourned until September with a protest planned before their home game against Wakefield next Sunday.
A small band of fans who had made the thankless trip chanted "you're not fit to run the club" at officials in the stand - with Hull fans applauding.The home side could only beat the opposition in front of them and took less than two minutes to breakthrough as flying wing Martin scored in the left cornerMartin then put opposite wing Harvey Barron in to run on and score under the posts.Jed Cartwright collected a clever kick from Will Pryce to add a third try inside 15 minutes before the clinical Barron went in again after quick hands put him away.Salford looked done after 20 minutes, as Martin stepped inside to score his second and Cartwright galloped in untouched for a second of his own.Davy Litten was the next to charge over as Salford's possession was limited to kick-offs, and Martin completed his hat-trick before the half-hour mark and was followed over by Cade Cust.Martin grabbed his fourth at the start of the second half to go top of the charts for this season with 20 tries, and Herman Ese'ese took advantage of Salford temporarily being down to 12 to barge over.The video referee confirmed a try for former Salford man Amir Bourouh as he grounded the ball cleanly, and Litten ran on to a Cust kick to touch down the 13th try of the game.The scoring did slow down before Zak Hardaker - who kicked 12 goals during the match - shrugged off a tackle to put Briscoe in for his landmark score, which puts him ninth in Super League's all-time list with 174 in total.Salford avoided being blanked - as they were when losing 82-0 to St Helens in February - when Brad Dwyer, a last-minute addition to the squad, got over the line to score late on.
Hull FC: Pryce, Barron, Briscoe, Litten, Martin, Hardaker, Cust,Ese'ese, Bourouh, Watts, Cartwright, Chamberlain, Asiata.Interchanges: Aydin, Ashworth, Charles, Eseh.Salford: Murphy, Lumb, Whitehead, Warren, S. Hill, Connell,Nolan, Sangare, Yates, Lewis, Littlewood, Chan, Wilson.Interchanges: Glover, Makin, Kerr, DwyerReferee: Liam Rush.