This. Beyond words.

Dobson was man of the match for me.

But some of our fans need a scapegoat, and they're undecided between dobson and locke, as to who it should be.

There was a Salford fan sat near me yesterday and no matter what Dobson did he slagged him off. If he was doing anything wrong then fair enough but I think the fan just had that British mentally that we must dislike positive winning people and always support the plucky underdog and be happy with just having enthusiasm.

I thought it was a very good win, built on strong and aggressive defence and a good kicking game. In truth, I can't think of many times within living memory when I have thought that before!

We wanted the win and the team's reaction in front of our stand showed how much it mattered to them. Interestingly, I think the first two over to us were the two Salford lads, Harrison Hansen and Adrian Morley. It certainly mattered to them.

We seem to have something solid to build on now and we could just be on the edge of becoming a good team. ( Sorry to be so optimistic on here. Mind you, posting it will probably be the kiss of death! )

The next two games will be a good indication of how far we've developed. Here's hoping we perform in both of them.

I am sure that last season we had a similar number of fans although we were in the same stand as the home supporters.

Of course if you look over on the Huddersfield board the result was only down to the ineptitude of Mr Child and how we took better advantage of that than they did!

FWIW I thought the ref was completely even handed and kept things moving along well especially given his reputation for being whistle happy.

What a set of whingers the Giants are though, the waving of arms after a tackle looking for penalties and Brough's continual stream at the referee - just not needed or wanted in RL

But back to the performance - best this season from us and certainly Dobson's best in a Salford shirt to date - let's hope for even better on Monday

Was not the prettiest of displays but one of the most professional I have witnessed over the last few years. We bullied them from start to finish.

Dobson controlled the game with is kicking & organisation, Cory Patterson impressed once again. We also had an extra man in our side last night, I salute each one of the fans who made the trip over to Huddersfield, you could see at the end of the game how much it meant to the players knowing how good the vocal support was last night..

Lets make sure on Monday we give the team the same positive vocal support

The team deserves credit for the fact that they had to reshuffle after 15 minutes and were down an interchange player from that point. We're fortunate that we have a back-rower who can play centre and a winger who's comfortable at fullback.

I think we're increasingly looking like Dobson's team. He's calling most of the moves, deciding when to pass, run or kick. We seem to be playing much more conservatively than we were last season and earlier this. That was what we needed yesterday. You could see it against Wakey, Cas and Widnes too to a lesser extent. At one point in the first half yesterday Chase went on a mazey cross field run which ended with a risky long pass and no metres made. Dobson ran over, bollocked him, pushed him away and put himself at first receiver. No way Smith or Fages could do that to Rangi. Clearly the teams instructions were to play a tight, controlled game to keep hold of the ball (we made 6 handling errors all game which is good for us, esp in those conditions) and Dobson was gonna make sure we did

That said you can see that the partnership is growing. Dobson leads us round the park, gets the forwards where he wants them and gives the ball to Chase to play the bigger, rangier moves. You could see at times yesterday Rangi was choosing to try something off the cuff, pretty much always in their 40. And you can see that they control different sides of the attack at times. All really encouraging.

I think as their partnership develops that we will see Rangi coming back into it more but at the right times and territory, unlike last year when he had to do it all. There will also be games like yesterday when we need a tight, controlled attack and others when the conditions and opposition suit where we can be more free flowing.

I agree. We've seen in games earlier in the season that we struggled to adapt. I think it's partly the team spirit and being more prepared to fight for each other than we were

you had around 150 last year

about 80 the year before that, so last night was a great effort from you guys!

give over, not one giants fan has said Salford didn't deserve to win that game, the fact that most of us were frustrated with the refereeing doesn't mean that we can't praise the opposition on being the better team.
you are right though about child, he did keep things moving, because he refused to penalise BOTH teams for laying on, stood offside, not been square etc

as for your comment about us being whingers, then don't every rugby league team do this?

I actually think Hudds fans are breaths of fresh air compared to most opposition fans. I mean, just look at the thread on here from the cult of Leigh...

Most of the hudds fans on their board are pretty level-headed. They have the same number of individuals as any other Club with regards to those infected with the disease of RL. Namely refereeing obsession and myopia. Something we suffer greatly from too.

Meast - your gracious comments are appreciated and welcome over here. But even you must know deep down that when it comes to whinging, moaning and generally acting like a spoilt petulant 4 year old, Brough is in a different class. Even Wilkin and Wellens struggle to keep up...

we have admitted that it is a problem for Broughy, and when he gets that head on it's bad to watch,
but to say we whinge more than most is rubbish.
players and fans get frustrated when things don't go their way, it's just human nature.

No coincidence in that the 4 games Brough has decided to have a whinge or 2 we've lost, the other's where he's decided to be a class half-back and captain we've won convincingly.

Good turnout by your guys and good to see plenty of you out in town after too !

picture of your support from friday

Must be at least 6000 Reds there..... are Salford the new Leigh?

973 Salford fans

Meast - How would that compare with the likes of Widnes/Cas/Wakey/HKR ?

Broughy was probably frustrated at chase's cowardly act in injuring Brett Ferres ruling him out for up to 4 months and childs ineptness to even penalise the incident. If you were playing and a thug had done that to one of your team-mates would you just stand around and do nothing? But I do agree that Broughy needs to control his anger better but I do understand his frustrations.

Child didn't see it. Lino did. Wasn't even a penalty given at the time, just a different player told to play the ball. Fans nr me were asking why when Locke was knocked unconscious a knock on was given but when Ferres was injured there was no knock on but as I say we hadn't seen it. Was straight in front of us and nobody knew what the on report was for around me. Having seen the replay I'm not convinced Chase intended it, you could see by his reaction. Impossible to know the intent and the damage was done so is a correct charge for dangerous contact. But to assume intent is speculation at best. Best way to take out frustration is to win which you had every chance of doing if Brough had played instead of sulking

it's the biggest following salford have ever brought... most away attendances are down, but some, like cas( and i guess Salford) depends on how the team is doing, last year for example, cas brought 1700, the year before that, 170!

This year Hull fc brought 2355, Salford, 973, Cas 770 Widnes 501
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i'm convinced he intended to hurt Ferres, he was already held up with ball wrapped up, Chase went around the back of him and attacked his standing leg, his other leg was already off the ground, why would anyone want to attack someone's leg when they only had one on the ground?
it was an act of housery, of which Rangi Chase has previous for.

Thanks Meast for the figures