I'm an avid fan home and away come win or lose,like the 300 or so other die hard reds fans there tonight i didn't expect us in a million years to go to saints and win tonight!But ive come home a lot happy tonight with at least seeing my team give there best and a 100% improvement on our last 3 outings!
We were never gonna even get close to winning tonight,everyone knew that from the off,but like many others i was hoping for a bit of spirit,grit and determination from all the lads pulling on the salford jersey tonight!We weren't let down.Yes you could see the different in class of players on show,yes we did give away stupid errors etc and making things a lot harder for ourselves!But we did look a completely different outfit from our last previous 3 games!Certain players stood out for me tonight....Malc imo man of match again,to see him track roby down over half the pitch was the highlight of the night for me,Big improvement and work rate from Nashie,Luke Swain best game for him so far,Smith looked twice as aware and lively from what he's produced so far,Ratchford was dying to get involved in as mush of the game as he could(even though still deffo wasted on the wing,great goals kicked too)Parker looked a lot more at ease and able to get on with his own game,Adamson some great running and tackling,a few hints of what jordan turner is capable of,and overall a team playing together that looked half interested as playing as a team and not making themselves an embaresment!
If any players are reading this...WELL DONE LADS AND KICK ON FROM HERE...things can't get worse and that was half a step in the right direction tonight.Build on it for next week and keep your chins up!.....oh and by the way!!there is a ceratin player for Wigan who realy desreves getting roughed up a bit

i'll second that! In the car on the way home it didn't feel like a defeat to us! Played pretty well tonight and our defence was a million times better! Thought the ref had a shocker towards us! The amount of times they were lying on and didn't get penalised but as soon as we did it, penalty straight away! Typical last 20 mins though when we were out of the game he started giving us more penalties to even it up a bit! Tosser! Anyway all in all very pleased with the lads and effort shown!

So 20-0 at HT is acceptable? ok.

So 20-0 at HT is acceptable? ok.


Get real you muppet.We were away at one of the top 2 teams after getting played off the park in the last 3 games by average teams!!
Were you there tonight?Did you not see a big improvement on the last 3 games?...Ok so what is acceptable playing away at one of the best teams in s/l on the back of 3 woeful gutless performances,after only 5 games into a 3 year super league franchise period???perhaps in your eyes we should have beed playing em off the park running rings round em and 30-0 up!!!
Give up on being so negative my little israeli friend and try giving the team some support(upps sorry your prob one of fans who stands there with ur train spotting jotter looking out for players to call and boo instead of getting behind the team)

it never should of been 20-0 at half time though! one of the tries should of been a knock on under the high bomb and i would of liked to of seen the penalty count in that 1st half! silverwood is a joke! Anyway all the salford fans clapped the lads off at half time coz they knew they had put 100% effort in!

it never should of been 20-0 at half time though! one of the tries should of been a knock on under the high bomb and i would of liked to of seen the penalty count in that 1st half! silverwood is a joke! Anyway all the salford fans clapped the lads off at half time coz they knew they had put 100% effort in!

thank you!!you were quite clearly there unlike some!

yeah i went and like i've said on the way home we were all happy in the car even though we got beat coz of the effort and commitment shown by the players!

I knew before i opened the site that there would be a post from some guys saying 'well i feel happier now...a much better performance'
sorry guys a 38-12 loss is a hammering (for a team with ambitions).
So the margin of only 26 points and not the mauling we received against two lesser teams is NOT acceptable whoever it is against..
After opening match this season is turning in to a disaster..This Macrae
is USELESS....(in my humble opinion of course and forums are for stating opinions)

I was delighted with the result, well done lads you've made a few of us very happy! Stan James is very upset however



On a more serious note though...........vast improvement, lets carry it on against Coley next week!

You can have Coley back !

I think you need to get a little perspective.

We've been very poor over the last few games and it will take gradual improvement over time, especially with team confidence, before you will see any change in our fortunes. You can't wave a magic wand and turn an under-performing low-morale team into a side that can play away to anyone (Let alone Saints) and get a result.

I understand some fans frustration at the moment but it is a long 3 year haul and overly negative sentiment should probably be reserved for the second or third season when performance will be more crucial.

Some of our line defence was shocking again though and we still didn't look like scoring for most of the game...I'm not going to get carried away just yet - it was an improvement for sure but after the last 2 performances that wouldn't have been hard to achieve.

Onto Wigan and, for me, a huge huge game - I am not at all impressed with this Wigan team/squad and we should be aiming to at least compete from the start in this game and beat them if we play well.

300 Salford fans


More like 100 you mean

as for your team with quite a few injurys fair enough are very poor with Robbie Paul stealing a wage and should have retired years ago and ain't upto superleague standard.

I saw a few of the tries on the box last night and having been at the Quins game last week an area you seem weak is goal line defence in the middle. Last week you let Jo Mbu and Heckenburg in easily and last night Graham, Cunningham plus one other got in for what looked like soft tries.

Your pack appears to be big and experienced I wonder if they are fit and tough.

100 fans! Sorry I can't hear you properly. Just like last night then!



"I've heard more noise in a graveyard"

Well done on only a 26 point defeat you guys must be really proud, here's to improvement and a 25 point defeat next week

Oh the ambition is unbelievable

Funny how the two most disillusioned fans on here atre 1200 miles away!?

Nice to have an expert opinion from you both gents, hope you enjoyed last night's game.

As OrdsallRed said, it was an improvement, but we were still pretty poor in some areas of both defense and attack. In the first half we had some decent pressure on the saints line and only threatened anything on one tackle out of about 18 - the rest were predictable drives.

One one hand, 20 at half time was harsh considering the two late tries, but we also have to be realistic and realise that Saints were certainly out of sorts and dropped more ball that I've seen them do for some time. If their handling was up to normal standard, they woudn't have needed two late tries for a 20-0 score.

Positives for me are the youngsters getting more game time and showing more confidence - as someoene else has commented somewhere, I thought Turner looked really good when he was allowed to come in from centre and moved to hooker. Fitzy, who I thing has been awful previously this season was much improved, taking the high ball well on plenty of occasios and chiming into the line well - but I am concerned about his fitness and on one occasion he fell of a tackle because he just looked shattered. Despite the execution going wrong, I see Alker going for touch from a 20m tap as a positive sign that there is a bit of thinking on the pitch.

Whoever siad 300 Salford fans last night must have been on glue.

There were at best 100, and i actually thought it could have been as low as 30-40

It was certainly on a par with the support seen from the likes of Quins or Huddersfield.

Disgusting attendance from Salford considering there 20mins down the east lancs


Widnes brought more for the friendly we had and i for one thought Salford are very lucky to be in superleague.
Should have been Widnes

Agree Widnes had over 5000 people on a thursday night on sky with probably the worst away following possible, saying that though it wasn't valentines day was it

I'm new to posting here but have been reading for a while. Do you have some special obsession with Salford or is your life just that empty that you have nothing better to do than go on random message boards?


Anyway, on the subject of this thread, I thought the effort was improved last night but I think we have a fitness problem that is leading to lapses in concentration and defence.

And we were still louder than you!

Well that's told us then, I'm sure the SuperLeague panel are really grateful that such an important person as you has expressed their opinion.

I for one thought Rommel had been done for after the July plot in 1944 - appears not - pity!

AWWWW bless