GAME ON : Salford Reds Devils v St. Helens - 19:45:00

GENERAL CHAT ABOUT THE GAME, BUILD UP, THE ACTION AS IT HAPPENS AND AFTERMATH BELOW.

Narrow Salford victory, 2-8 points in it.

Thoughts on red?

I think if that's a red card, there should be 3 off every game.

How many tackles do you see someone hit a player in the face when he is down with a clenched fist.

Based on this seasons sending off for Warrington and Hull it had to be a red.

Deffo red, in fact it's a reckless cheap shot and should get 3-4 games ban.
Another thing that bugged me is how can the Salford player be penalised for knocking the arm of the dummy half (who subsequently drops it so it's a knock on) when he is in an onside position with both feet on the line, Cummings gave an explanation which was utterly ridiculous and had no bearing on what happened. Saints scored straight from that.

Poor this from Salford, particularly against 12 men

With out best players missing and down to 12 men we are hammering the team that battered wakefield

Regards

King James

Saints are fantastic though, look even better than Cas last year and with the experience, they are going to be hard to stop this year.

Barba is amazing, hope his injury isn't too bad, love watching him play.

Be amazed if he isn't in the NRL next season

A great advert for a ten team league

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Yawn. How many aliases have you got LeBron?

Huh?

That red was rediculous. If a head shot deserves a red then there would be 10 red cards a game.

The guy could no be any lower.
Plenty of wingers get their heads hit each week when running the ball back and there is no penalty.

Mistimed and should have been penalty, there were at least 3 head shots after that were no one got anything.

If we had 13 men on the pitch, I think we could have put 100 on them. Salford are on life support at the moment which is a shame as I have a soft spot for them.

Regards

King James

Garbage. It was a swinging fist. The fact it missed the ball is irrelevant. There was nothing comparable in the game. The Salford player was unable to return to the pitch.

Soft spot? The only soft spot you've got is between the ears!



With regards last night it's difficult to gauge. Saints looked superb ball in hand but we were absolutely pathetic and gift wrapped a lot of the tries with missed tackles, dropped ball and poor defensive reads. As good as we were against Wakey last week, we were equally atrocious last night.

Painful as it was to watch, results against Saints won't determine our season, it's what happens against Widnes, Catalans, Hudds & HKR that counts. Win the majority of those games and we'll be fine. We'll get away with the odd mistake against the lesser teams but anyone with the class in the backline of Saints will totally destroy you on even a slightly off day.

As it stands the best team I've seen this year hands down.

Salfords challenge is the depth of the squad they have, and it looks as though they are not picking up a couple of injuries a long the way. Not ideal.

Saints looked very good last night mind, the pace they play rugby at is the most refreshing for me. 1st receivers running at the line go at full pelt then turn to pass which is a very difficult skill and the likes of taia, wilkin, LMS do it with ease. Most other teams when putting that play on the 1st receiver is usually jogging and not really drawing anybody in so the next play is easily read. Very well coached team saints

The Sa’u premeditated intentional shot on Morgans neck while he was on the floor was much worse. The Tasi direct head shot on LMS was as equal, the fact that LMS didn’t go down like a sack of spuds avoided Tasi from getting a yellow.

Holbrook working wonders, the difference between our approach to the game now and under Cunningham is so stark.

Barba might be the best player to have played in SL - if he continues in this form he will be even better than Jamie Lyon.

Sa'u was not much more than an exaggerated flop. If it wasn't for the sending off it would hardly have been commented on. Did Tasi have a clenched fist to the jaw that required LMS to leave the pitch for good?

You should take this prediction thing up for a living.

Wasn`t too far off was I

No, unfortunately not.

Hilarious, he's good but he isn't all that special, 1/2 a season and he's better than Jamie Lyon, truly deluded nonsense, you need to give your head a shake.
There are at least a dozen English players that have graced SL that the coke head Barba isn't fit to lace boots for.

Someone can’t read very well.