mcrae just been on radio manchester guess what we trained well all week the man is an absolute fecking goon

Question :
how do you make eight good or even world class signings look dreadful

Answer: put them in a Salford shirt

Shameful and shambolic Mcrea must go, a very very average Crusaders side looked like worldbeaters today against a side who were disinterested clueless unfit lightweight and without leadership.

Positives : Godwin gets banned so Ratchford might, just might get selected.

how did patten get on?

A major part of our problems have been down to not progressing, when we've got up a little bit of momentum. The season Andy Gregory got us into the top half of the table, we had some of the most awful luck with injury the following season. Then the man and club seemed to fall apart in unison. Big Karl, minus the personal issues, had a similar problem, with more injuries than a team with limited strength in depth could handle. I have to admit if Harrison was still in charge, our fortunes would have been considerably brighter. The team always had more shape and managed to get more of the basic stuff right.

When you look at our recruitment for the season following our play-off appearance, you have to wonder if the collective money we spent on Korki and Edmondson would have been more wisely spent on getting Mozza in? One player spent more time sat on the treatment table, than playing, and the other, despite a massive heart, gave away stupid penalties and coughed up possession like he got four points for an error.

Going off what happens on the pitch, it appears that when a player has weaknesses is his game McRae does nothing to improve that player. Ratchford hasn't progressed, Adamson is being stiffled, defensively Gibson and Broughton look a shdow of the players that arrived last season, Cashmere makes less metres than he did in his first season, Henry looked solid in defence at first, Sidlow doesn't seem to be progressing. Add to that we lost Turner and Myler.

I have no idea what goes on during in training, but I'd be giving every single player at least an extra hour of training each day, in order to work on their weaknesses.

Biggest anti climax ever? All this build up for that. We need to put burgers at the other end for feka to get a bit of pace on. McRae may aswell have played. It's a lot of negativity after one game but look who we have on Friday. Not getting any easier is it

I think people are being a bit harsh on Feka. There were a couple of times when he was looking to offload in the tackle and there was just no one backing up on his shoulder. Although I do agree we still need to run him from deeper - too many flat passes with him getting no momentum in his run up.

We made a fair few breaks today but again we never had the numbers to back up and the Crusaders defence was able to get back.

something i expect you get taught at grass roots as i did, run on to the ball non of this flat passing stuff, if you have a player of feka's size he needs to be running on to the ball. Same with cash but we never seem to do this with any forward if we do its more likely to be one of are more lightweight players.

McRae has to go. I wouldn't be too critical of any of the players ATM.

exactly The players will turn it round the minute Mcrae is relieved of his duties, bring Noble in and you will see the real talent show.

3 years with little improvement to our game plan and lack of player development. no brainer.
bye bye mcrea.
i guess it's time to see how much ambition the club has.
Back up the signings with a coach that can identify our weaknesses and eliminate them.
Please

we deffo lack direction , discipline and fitness!! (all in sack fulls). All our pre season games have shown this. We have one of the fastest wingers in superleague , played on the biggest pitch we will play on this season , and the only time he has the ball is at the play the ball near our own line!! Their no 7 (is it sammutt??) only made a few tackles through out , surely we should have attacked him everytime we had the ball!!! soz if i dont make sense. Im on my way home from Cardiff now , totally pssied off and embarrassed!!

Its time for McCrae to walk away now, the guy has done absolute nothin since hes been here. We've built a promising team for this season, on paper top 8. Today was embarrasing no one seemed to know there role. Defence was shocking and our fitness was the worst ive seen it. One of our stand out players through pre season and parts of last season was left on the bench. Yes we did have players missing today but the team we had out should of won. Good job we didnt play Wigan, Saints or Leeds we would of had 70-80 past us.

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING ON ABOUT THE NEW PLAYERS,I WISH WE HAD PEOPLE WHO REPLACED THEM
PEOPLE ARE ALSO GOING ON ABOUT BRIAN NOBLE,DO YOU HONESTLY THINK ,BRIAN NOBLE WOULD WORK WITH
SIMMS,I DON'T.AND YOU ALL KNOW HE IS FIREPROOF,IN MY OPINION TO-DAY WE WERE OUT PLAYED OUT THOUGHT AND OUT COACHED.AND ITS NOT GOING TO GET ANY BETTER.

We were too flat. FEMA didn't run onto the ball once and the only time he did he dropped the ball. Adamson was solid and best player on pitch IMO but talented players like him at our club aren't be coached properly. And the new players lack direction.

I'll say it again they don't respect him and he doesn't have a clue.

Embarrassing. You'd hope McRae would walk away, straight into a nice Sky Sports studio. Not going to happen though.

I'M NOT WASTING ANY MORE TIME OR MONEY TILL HE'S GONE.

Well I was going to pop down to the club this week and look at a season ticket as I now know I can make Friday night home games but after this I'm undecided about if it's a good ideal or not.

You know you have to do it - it's character building watching Salford, after all if we didn't go on a Friday night what would we have to whinge about all weekend

Half of the players didn't even look bothered today, McRae needs to give some aspirational speeches to them and they need a kick up the back side. However, saying that the tactics are just the same, its bad rugby and also boring to watch, no wonder we have hardly any fans! When were defending and the opposition is playing the ball why don't we meet their attacking player half way and get up to them quick and put a big hit in, it never happens, they just stand there waiting for them to run at us giving the opposition team more momentum to their run and it makes it harder to take them down. In attack aswell why do the players stand there wait for a pass then run? Why don't they run on to the pass, no wonder we never make decent metres. For me McRae's time must be up soon, I say JW should give him 4 more games max, if we don't win atleast 2 of them he should be gone.

Another casualty if McRae was to go could be Steve Simms? If the club have no money to pay him off they may consider making the Football Director position redundant and then use this saving towards the salary of a new coach. I'm not saying this would happen but it's a sensible business option if things don't improve quickly and attendances drop.

Well I take no delight in saying Salford were poor.In fact poor is being generous.
As you are now our new tennants in common i have to say unless they get rid of Mcrae and Simms you may well be joining the Lions in Championship 1 next year.
Many of you are complaining about the game time for Palleasina....but in reality he only played the same amount of time with Wigan,just they had better players around him.
It may also be time for Mr Salford to resign as well after all in all the years he has been top dog Salford have been little better than a top championship one side.
Good luck next week against Saints and if a few of you are stuck for anything to do on Sunday nip and watch the Lions.

You ignore totally the question of who has been funding the club "..i all the years.." - For Mr Salford to go needs someone else to come in and fund the club, rather easier said than done!!!!

Thats all he managed at wigan in 3 seasons, dont need to be a rocket scientist to work that one out, shame your coach could,nt.

J.W madethe mistake of not getting Millward when he had the chance.Noble will want total control of signings,dont think Simms would put up with that.

Isn't this the thing you have dreamed of for years Marshy? Without him Swinton would probably be on a par with Salford right now wouldn't they? Let's face it there hasn't been much interest from local businessmen willing to throw their dosh at rugby clubs in this area over the last 30 years has there?