We were a far better team under Karl. I was disappointed when we sacked Karl as I felt that the season before we had played the best rugby I had seen at the Willows for a long time. We had improved year on year and I felt he was a victim of his own success.

I have become extremely disillusioned with the progress of the team. Although our results were good last season most Salford fans admit that the team did not delevop at all in preparation for super league. St Helens fans are quick to support but just because he was a success at Saints means that he will turn things around here. Look throughout sport and a coach who has suceeded at one club can fail at another. He was a disaster at South Sydney down under.

the change we need is to get rid off simms,hes been there far too long and we only had one good season with him in the sl the rest was fighting to stay up.ok we won the national league a few times but no offence anyone can win that league.we need a fresh face and it may boost the spirits up then in the traning camp.alker shouldnt be captain but watching him this season and you can only see him consantly talking to the lads on the field trying to boost them up.il be there every week so support the reds cos im not letting defeats get me down.things cant get any worse at the club now so got to look up and look forward to the good things to come like a second win lol

Tis a sorry state of affairs at the moment

but I can`t immediately see a way out.

Team wise we can do little other than shuffle the same team & with the injuries have to bring a few kids, in, give Stef a run at S.O.

As for the coach I am coming around to what seems to be the majority view BUT if we have no money how can we afford to pay off SMs contract ? Plus if we could find £100/150000 (?) for this would it be better keeping him and using this to bolster the team ??

Could go on forever, but I like hoping that things will get better as we adapt to SL...................... still I kept saying the team will gel and play great last year and it never hapenned either.

Now where is that No for the Samaritans...............................

Like most on here I'm extremely dissapointed at the moment.

As for Sacking Mcrea though. Can the club really afford to sack him, how many of the previous coaches are we still paying off ? I've been a fan for 20 years, Kevin Tamati was in charge since then every manager has got sacked, and it's the same story, a new bloke comes in complains about inherting a squad, sacks a load of the players brings in new players, they dont perform so the manager gets sacked and we're back where we started.

Also why was Mcrea given a four & 1/2 year deal, he took us over as were were already doomed 1/2 a year. That gave him 4 years to build, so he banked on getting us back into superleague, which he did. so he's got 3 years left I think he knew when he signed we'd struggle back and to cover himself he wanted a long contract.

Based on this I've been prepared to stick by him and let him see the job out, for one thing the club need a bit of stability. But as the weeks go on i'm getting more and more frustrated.

Assuming we can't afford to sack him, & he leaves by mutual consent and because no one is available, what about letting Naylor and Hunte have a go at first team coaching, or as a last resort lets try and tempt Cullen away from Widnes.

Rant over.

Sweet mother of Jesus I would rather get Harvie or Jack back than let Cullen near Salford.

I think letting Naylor and Hunt try for the rest of the year seems like a fair notion and I personally think that Robbie Paul will go on to become a top notch coach so let him take over some of the academy duties that Hunt wont be able to do.

There should be no reward for failure, until the sporting world realise this, we will always be left in this position and that goes for players contracts too. There's too much namby pamby sp? theses days. Contracts should be set out on a win bonus structure only, not a guaranteed lump sum every month.

After hearing Mcraes comments he should do the honourable thing and walk.

Would you walk away Black Cat if you were him with 2.5 years left on a contract, knowing it would almost definately be your last coaching job?

Maybe a cheaper solution for the club would be to bring in a new assistant with some new ideas and enthusiasm? Perhaps someone that can motivate and get more from the players, I know it's not ideal but its worth a go surely?

I think Naylor is just as liable, hes the assistant to a loser.

No, I'd make the b[ia[/istards who are grinding me down suffer for the two and a half years





I'm still after getting Paul Groves the job, so maybe he could come in as understudy and install some Salford steel mentality into the dressing room

Yes I agree, it's obvious the existing coaching set up isn't having any positive effect at improving the team's performance.

I think it's time for some new blood in the coaching team, a person than can get the respect of players and instill some new confidence and belief.

Keep McRae on to do the media interviews and let the new guy get on with the day-to-day coaching!

As an outsider looking in I can see why there's so much anti McCrae feeling around. I know a lot of comparisons have been made between salford this year and Cas last year and us the year before but for me the comparison isn't valid.

Although both us and cas took a few beatings in our 1st years in SL we always went into games competetive and gave the fans bright moments. Salford on Sunday where by far the worst team I've seen at CP in our SL years. Atleast Celtic looked bright in spells and we played quite well against them. I thought we were awful on Sunday and still managed to get 48 points scored. I was quite worried at half time as it was the worst I've seen us play all year.

Hats off to those who travelled, I go to all the away games but have to admit if I had to watch performances llike that every week I doubt I still would.

The buck must stop with McCrae, its his squad now and he doesn;'t look to have improved much on a team that weren't that convincing in NL1. I hope for you lads you get rid of the useless aussie and at least get a young English coach in and give him a try.

The other parallel I've found between HKR and Salford is that Mc is on sky every week as was Morgan in the 1st year and this never goes down well when the teams not performing. Morgan stopped this last year and has only now started to appear again.

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I have already eluded to Naylor in other posts, he looks so disinterested & I for one could not see him motivating the team, his body language gives out the signal of "i'm not interested" He doesnt look as though he could inspire & instill some sense of acheivment into the players. During games, he sits in the dugout, arms/legs crossed as though he is having a siesta. There is no get up & go from him, standing at the "technical area" shouting encouragement etc.

As Theredshed says, think the time is right to do some changes & maybe its in that position, get some one who the squad will give & get some respect from & encourage them to have some belief in themselves & maybe we can kick on.
It needs doing sooner rather than later so we can build on it now, I know we have the licence period, but we dont want to be in the same position as Karl & Shaun were in sort of writing this season off & starting afresh next, because by then we may not have many home fans which would be a blow to our finance

Lets face it the sh[ii[/it is growing in every direction and McRae needs a big number two quickly to relieve the pressure and save his sore a[ir[/ise. There must be some movement soon or the bottom of the pile beckon's

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Community director at Saints I think. Wouldn't be a bad shout given that he's probably going to want a full time coaches job in the future and would need some assistant coaching experience before getting one. Think McRae was the coach that took him to Saints as well.

Dont know why changing the coach is the answer when the issues are due to the fallout from pre season.



Bringing Alker back has done nothing for the team,although some players might have wanted him back,some obviously did not ,so catch 22 I`m afraid

And that was really the point where McRae should have imposed his authority!

I feel we really do need somebody on the sidelines to fire the team up.That is whats sadly lacking at the moment.Naylor has NEVER looked interested,maybe thats just the way he is.But thats no good to the team!
I still say Goulding is the man for that job.

Wer`re in in enough trouble as it is without signing Bobby Goulding to the coaching staff.

too true stevered,but don`t you think his authority was undermined by Alker being re-instated.?
I don`t believe it was the coaches idea,I think it was a panic reaction from above

ok we cant afford to sack SM. but we cud send him and simms on a paid holiday, for 2.5yrs till his contract expires,

that way without him resigning he cant get another job, and we will see who cracks first









ok the next problem then is who to get in ???

billy bradshaws mun says naylor dosent look intrested???

maybe he just doesnt agree with SM tactics etc and has wrapped his hand in ????

but who ever we get in paul groves, bobby goulding, fred bloggs , billy bradshaws mum, they will need paying, and that is a problem we need to sort out somehow,

but that is my idea, send him on a paid holiday along with mr simms.

What is annoying is karl harrison built a good acadamy and youth acadamy and a good first team mcrae as now took cover and not one team are winning thetre is something drasticlly gone wronge with the set up mcrae and simms have caused the damage so for me i would love to see john pendlebury as i think he is assistant at wigan and they praise him just as much as brian noble. I have not seen one good game of rugby since mcrae turnedup at the club.

Sir John should go on bended knee and ask, nee beg Shawn Edwards to come back from the dark side and offer him the head coaches job.

what about dennis betts salford born