Shaun Mcrae has done a good job for us given the level of income/salary cap we have to spend and the fact that because of it we aren't able to recruit and maintain the better players. Not one of the other coaches in superleague could improve us nor could cullen or millward. The move to Barton will bring more sponsorship, more fans through the gates and therefore more money to spend on better players. We can build on the young players we already have and in the furure become a force in SL. We as fans need to get behind OUR club, support the players, the coach and the rest of the staff.

The abuse on this board aimed at JW, Shaun Mcrae and the players is completely out of order, it acheives nothing and I'm not too convinced that those spouting it are Salford fans at all, just people out to get a rise from genuine fans .

Give it Alan Hunte, nothing ventoured nothing gained

Cant be having that.

must admit and be honest i thought your lot got caned by the ref in the first 20 mins and you never recovered

same comments on G.M.R. too

just gonna say those who were at bv are entitled to blame who they like cos they were a top lot, rowdy ok but funny and no sneaking out!


no gloating from us cos we have been there, many many times, and we had to hit rock bottom to bounce up, good luck, but you need your own John kear!

Ive been a Salford fan for the past 18 years my support to my team is not under question but what is, is the ability of McRae as a coach.

Its time for him to leave he's taken the club as far as he can but not very far!!!!!!!

but we've had enough!!!!!!!!!!!!

Take your red tinted specs off.
Good job


So I win in 15 games is acceptable is it ?
The young players we have are not being played by our super coach, and no doubt will leave.
Future force in SL

in the championship maybe.
I do get behind the club and give my support but the clown we have as a coach is really trying my patience.
We complain and are labelled as not being Salford fans


Get in the real world and not cloud cuckoo land where you obviously live.

Everyone. I think the players mainly, yes they arent playing well but after the game yesterday they went straight down the tunnel and didnt even applaud the fans. And they wonder why fans are staying away

I'm not in the business of slating individuals, it doesn't help anybody. Around about 1989 we played a whole season and won 2 games. Barrow home and Barrow away and 20 years down the line the club haven't really progressed. IMHO the problems at the club won't disappear by appointing a new coach, they run much deeper than that, and no, i'm not a McRae fan.

I agree. We have blamed coach after coach and nothing ever changes.A deeper look into the club as a whole is needed, and no I am not a McRae fan either.

No they wouldn't don't talk such crap, we have beaten the champions this season. We played what was in front of us and it was all over in 25 mins. Bit dissapointed we didn't rack up a bigger score but hey ho. Frankly the game was just a bit dull.

That has been the case for us for the past 3 years apart from the extremely rare occasion

yeh....and you got nilled too, we beat the champs last year but that didnt mean a team of a lower calibre couldnt beat us!

partly because theres not much below us but there you go

When did I say you couldn't beat us

read your last post and the one you were replying too...

mcrea has to go!!!!...were have we gone since he took charge ?...this season we have the smallest pack i have ever seen in super leauge....for me players such as parker...sidlow....sibbit.....fitzy...littler...big phil (lazyiest defender in super leauge!!)..are just not up to super leauge standerd!!..i am all for supporting my team and i will be their on saturday instead of sitting at home and i do not belive booing your team or even the coach will help inspire any kind of performance from them but mcrea and simms (who has taken the club for a ride for years!!) are any were near good enuth....personaly i think the players dont want to play for him..if i was a player i would react alot better to a coach who bangs on a tracksuite and stands on the sideline!! not watching from the stand in his comfy chair thinking of what posatives he can make up to put in the manchester evening news!!..i mite be wrong but maybe a few changes team wise are needed!! parker bakc to second row...j.smith back to 7..M.smith hooker off the bench...fitzy droped...henry to full back..gibson to the centre and tyrer to wing but im no coach i could well be wrong

ohhh and swain to second row with holdworth loose and stef stand off

defient red


thats where some of your comments are coming from.

defiant red before moving into Rugby league coaching buy a dictionary and sort out some of your text like prose.

Personally, I think he's got a point somewhere in there.

We're an awful side and going nowhere. We've gone backwards since we finished fifth, that just isn't acceptable for anyone. So who do we blame?

Well the obvious one is the coach. Finds positives in every performance when there clearly isn't any, comes out with the same, tired old platitudes every week and clearly offers nothing to the team in terms of training or motivation. The same, boring, predictable rugby week in, week out is really, really shocking. How he gets away with it, I don't know.

Then there's obviously the players. Rumours abound that some don't like the coach and refuse to put the full effort in because of him. Obviously it's alleged, but considering what happened with Harrison it just wouldn't surprise me. Not to mention 'Jacksonvillegate' - player power undermining club management, wonderful. Then, of course, there's the effort and attitude which just isn't there for some of them. A lot of them, including some older, more established players who should know better, need to take a long, hard look at themselves.

I know this last part is going to stir up a hornet's nest, but I think Wilky and the directors need to take a long hard look at things, too. Before anyone starts, I'm not questioning their loyalty and dedication and I know full well that without them, we wouldn't have a club to support. But the club's is such a shocking state at the moment, not just on the pitch, but also off it in too many areas. I'm sure JW wouldn't stand for poor business practice at Wilkinson Star so why do things go unnoticed at the Willows? I'm sure they can see how badly things are on the pitch, so you'd think they'd step in and intervene somehow.

Things are a mess, unless they improve quickly, we'll only be moving in one direction. Backwards.

Very good post GT, and well put

Things are a mess, unless they improve quickly, we'll only be moving in one direction. Backwards.

GT we are already going backwards quicker than a skydriver without a parachute

I know mate. My point was that we're only going to carry on going backwards unless something changes.