And who do you suggest we could get to take over for McRea?

To many muppets on here think macrae is flipping god and the man to take salford city reds forward!!!!!!ive missed only 3rd game of season today and have prob only missed 5 during the slugs helm at the club!some people seriously need to wake up on here,and realise there is another option after macrae has seen out his crazy 4 and half year contract!!!!even top grade premiership footballers dont get that long a contract ffs !!!
rant over

Like Ive already said, who else are we going to get?

rather someone like paul kidd!!!least he can prob run round on the training pitch with the boys!and would prob be able to look after himself instead of prob costing the club 400 sheets a week for a body guard ffs!!

Could Ginger McCain train a donkey to compete in the Grand National?

Bingo!

hahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahah at the body guard part
and yes Paul Kidd please

I'm not a Mcrae fan, but I don't see any reason why a coach has to run about on the park with the players. I'd highly doubt that Wayne Bennett does that with the team currently sat top of the NRL. I'm more concerned with our apparent inability to be "up" for games against the lower teams than how physical the coach gets in training.

At the end of the day, Mcrae has never done much in his career with "weak" teams (he's certainly no John Kear), but we're highly unlikely to pay him off so we've got to hope that he can get better results with a likely stronger squad next year.

I hate to be a pedant matey but Wayne Bennett most probably does have a run about with the players. He had a certain degree of notoriety for distance running with the players when at Brisbane. However, I'm pretty sure Craig Bellamy, Jack Gibson or Phil Gould (3 highly successful coaches in the NRL) run about with the players thus validating your point. I'd certainly love to find out why the players appear to have a different mentality for games such as today as opposed to games such as last week.

It's a very good point, but for a small number of games over the past two years we seem to lose virtually every 4 pointer by some margin! Could be some kind of sports psychology thing like Wire always losing to Saints!

Precisely. Without a shadow of doubt it comes down to the psyche of the players. If only the club could afford a shrink!

It was Gibson

Just hope we take a good following to Huddersfield, we usually always do and make a top atmosphere their, in recent memory we actually usually out sing Huddersfield, the best away game for me I think, just think today would of pushed a lot of people away from going Huddersfield.

Take me home, Willows Road
To the Willows, where I belong
Six feet under
Died of shame
Take me home
Willows Road

I'd go for Purtill the saints assistant coach, with Hunte as no 2. Has Alker agreed yet to be assistant? I hope not.

He has and really I dont know what he can give to the side in terms of attacking fair can you?

Yesterday was embarrassing. There's no other word for it. We were a shambles. For me only Ray Cashmere came out of the game with any credit.

If any other group of paid employees performed as badly in their working environment and failed to reach reasonable targets that had been set for them then their Line Manager would be held to account. Shaun Macrae is responsible for that performance in the last analysis and he is answerable.

I know he didn't tell Gibson to kick the ball infield to nobody when it seems he only had to fall over the line; nor did he tell Alker to kick to their left winger when we had a twenty metre tap or tell Ratchford to put in a chip kick to two offside team mates on the last tackle on our twenty metre line, but he did give the team a game plan before the match presumably. What was it? We did not seem to be organised in any way. We had no options with ball in hand and our defensive line was static to allow them 10 metres at evey play the ball. In contrast, Brian Noble's team was organised, aware and gave the ball carrier options in attack at all times.

We may not have the most talented bunch of players in Super League as others have rightly pointed out, but they cannot be as bad as they seemed yesterday, and that's down to the coach.

I recall that a certain Karl Harrison was sacked after a similarly inept performance in France!

When Patten signed last week I seem to recall there being news this week on further new signings can't see the club binning the coach when this is about to happen.

Chris Nero has rejected a contract at bradford. He'd be A good option for us, sack tyrer off.

hanbury & youngquest when they played for balmain/ryde eastwood you would not feed them ..5 trys between them ? wow salford really gone to the ter

Yes he is ultimately responsible, but if a line manager realised half or more of the staff were not up to the job and he or she were bold enough to get rid and find much better replacements could you fault them for that? It's my guess that the rejected players are talking to each other and are pi**ed with the situation because nobody else wants them apart from possibly National League clubs, and they'll have to take a massive cut in wages!
It's like saying to somebody that your too old or you are not good enough .. and I don't want you anymore because I've found someone much better.. but until you have finished working your notice I want total commitment and 110% effort. Yes you can ask for it but are you realistically going to get it?

We blooded one of our youngsters vs Leeds (Sneyd). He had a good game. At any other club with nothing to play for he would be given a run in the team til the end of the season. Instead he is dropped for a half fit Ratchford. Pretty much sums it up.

I don't rate him myself, although I'd take him over Tyrer.

Did anyone else get conned withe the ticket prices.Checked Crusaders website sunday morning,said a fiver for concessions and twelve quid to sit anywhere.Wasnt going to bother going [skint but at a fiver I changed my mind.Queue for tickets was a farce,big queues in office with 2 little tills.Got told it was £20 not five,after arguing with man on till ,was told , take it or leave it.Managed to get a concession for £15 but was not a happy chappy!!!!!

I'd take him over Talau for the amount of games he's missed for us over the past two years. Plus 9 tries to Talau's 2, 6 try assists to 3!