Just wanted to talk about Rugby for once instead of the continued bile elsewhere.

Wakey are short of Ali L & Godinet and McShane now with Cas.

3 big pluses there for me & no doubt Watto.

I think we can do them in the pack & delighted to see Tommy Lee back & if HH is off elsewhere I think TL would be a good choice as skipper.

Hood not there so presume hes injured but for me a win for the Devils by 12.

I think the whole future of SRD is in the balance tomorrow. If the players all turn up and play to the standard we know they can,and we win with determination, then I think we can go on and avoid the unthinkable. It's all down to how much effort they put in.If we get beat, then it's gonna be a real struggle to stay up. Dr K won't stick around with a Championship club.

I'm really surprised this isn't a long running thread.
It's a massive game for Wakefield and we are really excited for it. Tough game to win away at Salford but we are up for it.
Why are the Salford fans not interested?
Is it just other bigger issues or confident of a win or being discussed elsewhere?

See you all tomorrow

Majority of Salford fans are p*ssed off. Koukash can continue to blame players and not himself or the club, but you don't see this sort of thing happening elsewhere in Super League. He has got a long way to go to get back the supporters back on side.

I'll be at the game on Sunday, but I genuinely feel like I couldn't give a toss what the outcome is.

I'll be at the game tomorrow but rather like JGR will be feeling disillusioned with the club that I've followed for many years, to the point where I just don't feel like joining in with the usual pre-match discussions and banter with the Wakey fans.

I fear for the future of SRD, let's face it we've been in a parlous situation for years but the manner of our "rescue" has, to say the least, been a bit odd !!

Will be there on sunday,

And will be there next season where ever we play, as long as not in blue lol.

It's clear that you're extremely close to a player or administrator at the club,so I hope they don't feel the same,or we will be in deep do dah

Well I want us to win!

Made hard work of it today but would be surprised if any Salford fan didn't care of the outcome with 20 minutes to go. No idea why Wakefield took the 2 points at 22-24. Another try there and it was game over for us.

An expected low turnout from us today but can see a few turning out vs Leigh now we've got a win on the board. Big game next week. Win and will have a 4 point lead over the club most likely to take our place in the top flight.

Massive win. Magnificent first half with no penalties conceded. Only lapse of concentration at end of half which cost us 6 points. Second half, in contrast, all over the place & at times there was panic.
Play like first half = super League.
Play like second half = struggle.
I thought the enthusiasm & application of the players was excellent.

According to League Express league table Salford lost yesterday! Is this true?

Not unless there's a parallel universe - Salford definitely won yesterday.

Agree with this, haven't had butterflies in my stomach like that for a long time.

Honestly think you will struggle to make the top 3 of the Middle 8's if you have that much trouble beating Wakefield at home.

Not sure on your other home games, but Leigh, HKR and Bradford all seem stronger teams than Salford and if they win their home games, especially against the lower opposition, realistically, the best you can hope for is to finish 4th on the table I would say.

Thanks for that invaluable input Mike

Got to be a Wire fan! I'd be worrying about your own problems Mr Oxlong.......

No worries!

Just an outsiders view from what I see going on and off the field from all clubs in the Middle 8's.

Christ no! Please don't tar me with that brush!!

Why? You tar yourself with the brush of liking Oasis?

Wakefield are a lot stronger now but lack pace

And that has what to do with which rugby team I support???

Good point to debate I guess, seen as you obviously have nothing to add to the 'where Salford will finish' debate.

As someone else said previously, thanks for that invaluable comment and contribution!

I have something to add. From what I saw yesterday in the sunshyyyyyyine, bar some naïve defending in the 2nd half - the penalty count was massively down, we looked creative and composed going forward and most importantly had a great team spirit which I've not seen in previous weeks, but if we can build on yesterday and gather a bit of momentum, I see no reason why we cannot win our next 4 games - I see Leigh being the crunch match but we are fairly decent at home and I think we can gather the points needed by the time we have to face the trickier Widnes and HKR away games.

Did anyone else find our starting line-up odd yesterday? It looked like we were trying to force Thornley into the line-up and Evalds ended up on the bench because of it...I can't see that being the case though as Thornley is obviously off at the end of the season anyway.

Was Evalds not fully fit & we were just trying to take it easy with him?

Some of the subs seemed odd too - Evalds on for J. Griffin, then J. Griffin on for BJB I think? Again, if this wasn't due to knocks/problems occurring during the game, it just seemed a little strange to me.

Certainly seemed like we were trying to fit Thornley into the team. Hope we don't do the same against Leigh. Regarding the subs, all those were made due to injuries and knocks.

Cheers JGR, I was kind of hoping that was the reason for the subs - It seems the better option when the alternative is it actually being our game plan!