I thought that four games in thirteen days took its toll espesicly the leeds gameits been hard having to go to leeds then go to france at least we got 2 out of three more than other teams got

Totally agree ...hopefully he will keep Fitzy out of the team with these performances...forever

Pathetic comment.

Granted it is a poor result, but we have come off the back of three wins which were all close and hard fought games. The Leeds game will have taken a lot out of the players mentally and physically and Catalan was probably the worst place for us to go after a game such as that. It sounds like the journey down there was a nightmare and took 11 hours, christ knows what happened and the hot weather is a massive advantage to Catalan.

Lets also not forget the different in class between us and Catalans, man for man they are far superior and the scoreline shows that.

Hopefully the fans who went over enjoyed their trip regardless of the result, it is a massive improvement on the last time I went over there in 2007 when we got spanked 66-6 in the pouring rain.

Plenty of fair excuses for last nights performance as stated above. The main thing for me is there is definitely a good spirit again in the camp.

Its unfair to single out Goulding and to play him out of position. He is a centre and if we are to compare him with what we have then he should play there instead of Littler who offers nothing for the future.

Wilshere has made #1 his own but for me there is a space for Fitzy - maybe as undertudy to Robbie Paul for next season and beyond.

I am just watchin the '[ihighlights[/i' on Sky.
So far, from what has been screened, Goulding has made just the one mistake, and he wasn't the only one at fault in that instance imo.

.......he must have a real shocker in the 2nd half if some people's opinions are to be considered accurate...........I'll wait and see

.......... strewth, he wasn't that bad


I've seen far worse individual performances.

All in all, a tired looking performance, but that was probably to be expected, and not the end of the world.

Dont think you can criticise goulding to much seen as he did play out off position. was not a great performance but i think we can beat hull next week seen as they are on such a bad run of form. and my dad nearly got killed by a catalans fan in a toilet.

Did anyone see the video ref knock on/rip out decision on sky? Was it any clearer on proper telly than it was on a PC screen.

I watched the highlights on the Super League Show and you couldn't really see as they only showed one angle. There were two in the tackle as he went over the line and the ball came loose. It could have been avoided though if our players hadn't just stopped and watched the ball - I think it was Adamson who realised that it hadn't been blown dead and ran to try and ground it but he was a split second second too late.

Good to speak to a couple of Salford fans on the Liverpool-Carcassone flight on Friday, hope they enjoyed the trip, despite the result

Finally back, (well I say finally probably rather still be there) We started well early on, but they are a very good side, huge pack then take into account they have alot of pace in the side and Bosc pulling the strings they are very difficult to play against. I feel playing 4 very tough games in 13 days probably had something to do with it, we have had a tough Easter and we felt the impact on Saturday, I am not complaining though, everyone else had the same problem. No one really stood out on Saturday 'reasonable' performance by most, poor by a couple. But it's difficult to point the blame onto individuals, having to fly out there and play 4 days after beating Leeds at Headingley, the fatigue was evdient on the players faces in the airport last night. Have to just forget that game now, try and prepare as best we can for Hull on Saturday. Anyway, we don't need to win again this year, We won at Leeds!

I think that about sums it up. To be honest I didn't think we played that poorly but more down to the fact that the Dragons controlled the ball better which meant we couldn't get any decent possession of field position. Our kicking game, which has been great at times this year, just wasn't there and as has been said we looked more than a little weary.

The heat won't have helped, after the forecasters told us it would be overcast and wet on Saturday nothing could have been further from the truth

, believe me it was very, very hot on game day, having said that it did pi55 down for most of Friday.

Not looking for excuses as I said I think we did ok in large parts of the game, but the lads only arrived at the hotel on Friday evening so they didn't get much time to adjust or train, no fault of the club BTW, they were just delayed.

When the fixture list came out I looked at the Easter schedule and noticed Catalan away straight after Leeds away on the Monday and thought then how kind of the Rugby League to give us them two five days apart, plus Catalan getting two home games on the trot, no doubt because they played on the Monday and the League would have felt it unfair for them to have to travel.

Second half we were not in the game at all.
The try just before half time really did knock the stuffing out of the players, total cock up.
Why oh why does our great coach put a centre and a stand off on the wings


Still good time had by all apart from the pound/Euro rate meaning a 40% rise in costs.
Bad news was United also losing (I did a one man Boycott as I do not agree to the semi being at Wembley)

Just got back from a cracking away trip, as for the game I honestly don't think we were that bad, we defened our B*llocks off, just some stupid errors let catalan through for example not kicking the ball dead twice, once when goulding missed it and once when Adamson should have just put the ball out even though everyone thought there was a knock in the build up you still to play to the whistle. The problem in the second half was we didn't have any of the ball, I can hardly remember us getting in the Catalan half of field, all in all i'm not to disheartened the lads played with a lot of effort which is all we can ask for.

Looking forward to Saturday now, Hull will be out for revange so we will need to be at the top of our game.

Could be worse, our lads flew back on Sunday afternoon and have got a game on Thursday night!

Just to add to the good comments above, played with alot of grit in tough conditions against a big powerful side who have some real touches of class. Felt proud after the efforts of recent weeks and was fantastic to see them roared off at the end in stark comparison to our last trip over there. Effort was good, just couldn't the ball off them in the second half, and a couple of vital moments went against us and we couldn't get back in the game after they got ahead.

Interesting to note we lost 38-12 at home to Wigan and 38-6 on Saturday, but the performances weren't on the same scale despite the similarities of the score. Just need to play well against Hull on Saturday now.

Ditto what Walshy said, Things didnt quite go our way in the first half and they just ran away with it in the 2nd.

DID U THINK RATCHFORD PLAYED BADLY. THINK AGAINST WARRINGTON AND LEEDS BOTH HIM AND LITTLER KEPT AN AUSSIE INTERNATIONAL AND GB PLAYER SENIOR AND THERE WINGERS V QUIET DOESNT DESERVE TO BE DROPPED.

Great weekend, great turnout, empty pockets due to the price of a pint, still I do it again.
Agree with the comments, played well in the first half with some great defensive stints, undone with some silly errors, which cost us, we were very tired in the second half but good effort, very different to the last time we were there.
Enjoyed the crack in the bar's outside the ground before the match, with a group of frogs who looked like they been let out of the nutty house.

Well done Salford, went Hull, leeds & Perpignan & can honestly say have had my money's worth.

I know Ratchford does OK on the wing but it still is not his natural position.
As for putting Goulding on the wing now that is a different matter all together

so does he deserve to be dropped? he is never going to replace smith is it may be best for the lad if he goes out on loan to a club where he can play in the halves

Agreed. I didn't think we were that bad, to be honest. Just couldn't get into the game second half. Everyone seemed upbeat still coming out of the ground and it was a belting trip. In fact it was United who put a downer on the weekend!

I manage to watch some of the game over the net,thought the Catalan try
just before half time was the game breaker which left to much work to do in the 2nd half.
John Wilshere mom for me.

Got back last night, many a story to tell, see red or dead later!

As for the game, I thought 1st half we played very well and with previous comments on this thread THAT second try was never a try, he lost the ball but shame on Adamson at that point for not playing to the whistle, otherwise he had a good 1st half making plenty of ground and good tackling, also as mentioned Goulding was well off the pace and he and Wilshere were a fault for the third try, they should have just booted it out after some fantastic defence. Second half was a none event, Catalans played the percentages and it worked for them. I don't blame the weather TBH it wasn't that warm when the game kicked off and it also started raining by the middle of the first half. Anyway under all circumstances I actually thought the players tried to compete and thats all we asked and they deserved their rousing applause at the end of the game from what I'd say was about 200+ who made the trip!