shambles yet again......

I want to laugh, I really do but I cant. With us being your feeder club, I have a soft spot for you.

Good luck for next season

Mate I'm laughing at us myself, and by the way, If the rest of the players we buy from you end up like M.Smith and S.Tyrer, I hope we never do business with you again.

Absolute disgrace, hope patten wasn't listening to the
Game as id imagine he will be having second thoughts
how we can Get spanked by a So so team shows
us for what we are absolutely diabolical! !!!

But you didn't have Holdsworth last week, did you? And yet you played so well and pushed Leeds?

glad im in lloret de mar,what a disgraceful battering yet again!.
anyone who sticks up for macrae saying he deserves another contract is a complete and utter bel-end!!!
surely he must be entering some talks soon about his own future??AND SURELY HE WILL BE TOLD "THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE,BUT WE FEEL YOU´VE TOOK THE CLUB AS FAR AS YOU CAN!!"""

just back, what a farce!!!!!!
we played like we couldn't be bothered, but second tackle of the game Cashmere penalised for kicking out led to the Sydney boys first try. We responded well and scored a very good try, then the wheels fell off, Ben Thaler with the whistle didn't bother with the offside rule but disallowed a try for us that puts Salford back in it for a forward pass, the only person to see it, then it goes from bad to worse, he missed 4 knock ons, again doesn't bother with the crossing rule, and penalised Salford for having 4 in the tackle. Then I assume mr Smith called the ref a cheat because the final knock on was so far forward it started in goal and finished on the field, but it went back que the comment and penalty again and down to twelve, then we score two tries.
over all £20 to get is robbery
2412 crowd about 400 reds made the trip
total penalties to Salford 2 against a team that ships penalties weekly
Why oh why can we not get up to play Brian Noble teams?

Does anyone know the fella who walked out at half time & called BBC GMR?

yes he the famous john from salford listened to radio manchester on the way back from the match they played michael bubles i wanna go home over his rants when he walked out at half time very funny

Was on the Salford Fans coach, having the p##s took out of him good style

Far too many players had their worst game of the season today - and credit to Crusaders, everything stuck and they scored some good tries.
I don't know if the coach is to blame, and I dont know who would be better if he walked. But this was one game too far, after the win at Bradford and the good performance last week against Leeds - no strength in depth, and today, no strength of character.
After they scored their second we literally crumbled, it was shocking to watch, and made the £20 entrance fee all the more difficult to swallow.

Next game is all about pride.

Don't be fooled, we played just ok, Leeds were shocking, we had them pinned on their line for about 20 minutes in the first half and only scored 2 tries, and in the second half we was bad all round.

Who was on the wing for Tyrer, Gibbo?

Can't believe how many armchair-bound keyboard warriors we have on here today?!

How God's name can anyone who didn't bother going to the game start spouting about the performance being a disgrace?!

why are people calling for mcraes head again? did he miss the tackles and make the mistakes? some of our fans are complete muppets!

[iThis afternoons crap performance was nothing new because we've seen it all before over the years watching Salford City Reds, one week hot and the next cold to say the least.

Well today's game is history now and hopefully in two weeks time our head-coach can get 17 fully fit players out on the paddock all singing from the same song sheet when we play Hull KR because if he does not we are in for another beating for sure.

The main thing I don't want to see again this season is Malcolm Alker playing in a game when it was clear to see today the old lad was not 100% from the kick-off.

Also if Jeremy Smith does get banned by the RFL this week then hopefully Salford City Reds will allow this chap to return home early, plus if any other players don't want to give 100% for the cause then I would rather see some young kids get blooded in the last three games. but of course that's up to our head-coach to sort out between now and the Hull KR encounter.

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Total shocker from start to finish today, but what i was most shocked at was the idiot who threw a programme at the end that hit Jodie Broughton in the face. I am sure that all the players were embarrased by that performance, but by no means did they deserve that!. Christ, only the other week that fans were asking on here as to why the players dont come over at the end, well today was your answer. but on a posotive note, the corporate was spot on.

Driving back listing to the phone in on Radio Manchester - Jack Deardon asked if anyone had any good news!!!! Should have called in as Hillbilly Red & I had a couple of excellent pints of real ale, a very good sausage & bacon toastie and all served by a barmaid with a lovel bum - certainly a better experience than watching the game!!

I am trying to give a measured response, first the positives, Salford fans who turned up, there were as many Salford fans as crusader fans! Cashmere & Matty Smith were the only two who should actually collect there pay cheque.

Why do we promise so much then against a team around us produce a performance like that, it would be easy to blame the ref who was shocking but we were worse.

For me this is what is wrong with the present structure, no relegation, no pride in some of the players, looks to me like some of the players have been told they don't have a contract next season.
Willie Talau sending him packing now, Fitz had a mare, Alker, looked a shadow of is former self, Luke Swain now going through the motions, Parker finished, weak defence on the right hand side, Ratchford not match fit, J. Smith indiscipline, Adamson looks to be going backwards at present, no punch in attack, what a waste of £20 plus travelling

What really ed me off is Salford fans turned out in there numbers today & we let them down again, no excuses please!

Our coach Shaun McRae to top it off on our way home & listening to GMR we listened to his post match on the way home, 3 years into a contact & all he could say is he did not have a clue why they played like lemons, at no other super league club would this coach still be in a job!

I don't care what anyone says about what im about to say

McRae has just got to go
he's a useless waste of space !
END OF
He said on the radio i didn't know where we was going wrong !
Who's the coach then ? im sure your meant to know you Slug
i was screaming at John Wilky, he's proved his worth now get rid !

He's got to go !

he picks the team
he runs the training

how many times have we put out a team that does not want to know?
how many injures we have that look the same (shoulder)
do we have a game plain?
sorry to say if the club is to move forward with the new ground and players, it must be without our coach and director of rugby
for a winning team we must have a winning coach!!!!!!!!!!!

Awful, awful, awful. Enough said.

Shocking performance, in front of a rather large away following aswell. We are constantly going on about raising attendances, and when the supporters bother to pay their hard earned money to attend they are subject to an abysmal showing like that!

Does anyone think this shocking performance could have anything to do with the fact 50% of the squad are likely to be booted out of the door at the end of the season? Yes you can blame the coach and some poor ref's decisions but I think it's a lot deeper than that. If you were working somewhere and you knew you wasn't wanted anymore would you honestly put 100% effort and commitment in to it? Could it be a case that pressing agents have now told their players there will be no new contract offer from the club? If it was 3 or 4 players not being retained then I'd imagine the rest would pull them through but when its virtually half or more of the seventeen then its a different story.

All I can say is i'd rather go through the pain of an embarrasing result like today now with less to play for than next year if it means we will have better quality players and more commited team.

Maybe it's an ideal time to blood some youngsters now!

theredshed - I think you've nailed it spot on - It's been clear for a while that this season is pretty much a write off - getting Holdsworth to commit and then signing Patton is a sign of things looking up, but with nothing to play for and as you say many of the current squad moving on then today's result, whilst dreadful to watch, probably is not too surprising