All I'm saying is, you didn't attend and we thrash Saints.

well your team did set out to blow someone away ...AND YOU DID ......St Helens !!!

Time to get behind them I think. Good Luck Salford.

I tell you what, it's still very early days for Ian Watson and could go either way, but at least he looks the part. Keiron Cunningham looks like a kid who's won a competition to be a Superleague coach for a day in his mad hat and massive headphones.

Where is Solly the most doom & gloom of all Salford fans!

158 metres last night from George Griffin, will be a top forward this year.

Last night was a great TEAM performance, and we should enjoy the plaudits coming our way for the next couple of days.

But we shouldn't get carried away (we're Salford fans so I don't think we will, its not "in our DNA"icon_wink.gif. It will be no good thrashing Saints if we then slip up against Widnes next week. We've got tricky fixtures coming up in the next month - if we beat Widnes we can go into the Wigan and Warrington games with some confidence.

I expect Sheens and Watson did not panic too much after the Hull performance and assume they won't be doing cartwheels after last night. Its about building momentum and going about our business in a professional, level-headed manner.

BTW it was good to hear our coach talking with a local accent. 'One of our own' instilling a team ethic into a group of hungry young players. Who'd have thunk it?

this
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Tries 8 - 2
Offloads 8 - 4
Metres 1429 - 884
Carries 187 - 127

the obvious highlights were Lui / Carney etc ,but take note of the stats for Adam Walne & George Griffin , 46 tackles, 34 carries, 297 metres between them .
my fear was we'd get monstered in the front row , especially with saints interchanges . quite the opposite .

speaking of stats:-
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so now 5 wins in 42 matches.

highest score V Saints ( 44 ) beating the previous record ( 2010 May 15th 42 - 34 ) .

highest winning margin ( 34 ) beating previous (1994 Jan 12th W 34 - 2 ).

I recall a discussion on here just before the season started, a couple of us said we could see the big potential in George Griffin and someone else (cant remember who) wouldn't have any of it.

I think we saw a glimpse of that potential last night. He ran his absolute heart out tonight, winning the collision each and every time. Whilst he isn't physically the biggest (yet) the speed he has for a prop means he is always going to make the advantage line. I think people forget how young he is too, we should be tying him down for another 3 years.

"how you can mess up something like John Smiths" ?: easy. Take it out of the canal.

Him and the walnes have always had the potential, but werent helped by hariss' tactics of playing dirty.

Good point on A.Walne. Last night was his first real mature performance in a Salford shirt. No stupid penalties, just aggression and tough tackling. We've all known he has it in his game it has just never been coached out of him.

A one Mr Flat Stanley was the one who doubted him i believe

I hold my hands up I doubted he would be a prop but if last nights performance was a yard stick I'm wrong, very very wrong.

[iSteady on.The Walnuts have one good game in God knows how many games and now they're heroes, Good grief lets hope they've turned the corner otherwise they'll be remembered as one game wonders. Lets see how they perform through the rest of the season. One good game and people start masturbating. Gee whiz. This season is their last chance saloon anyway so its imperative they improve. [/i

I don't think anyone is claiming the Walne's are the new Burgess Bros.

just stating he had a good game last night & credit where credit is due .

I have noticed in the preseason games that Adam Walne is running better lines.

It must be coaching ( Watson - Sheens - Morley ) , and it seems to be improving his game to the point where he is getting a bench spot over others.

still only 25, maybe there's room for improvement still

Thanks for bringing my point up, last night was exactly the point I was trying to make, why exactly in the case of the original posting re: Hull set out to blow us away and we as Salford are meant to accept that, well like I said we shouldn't just accept it, we are in the same competition as everyone else and should set out to "blow everyone else away" last night we did just that and it was fantastic.

It felt great and now the real pressure is on as there's no point dining out on it and falling flat on our s against Widnes.

I've just watched the game again, on YouTube, and George griffin and Adam walne were superb.

A great team performance.they have set the standard,they have now got to keep it up.

4,386 there for that great win. It would be great - and its possible - if the sporting public of the area could be enthused to get those turn outs up to an average of 6/7,000 and create a buzz about the club. Its so important to follow up.

if we continue to play rugby like we did on Thursday, and win a few more, I'm positive the crowds will double, at least.

This.

Very good post match interview.

BUT

When did we start calling defence D?

Ever since we decided to 'Rip-in.'