Says it all when he was clearly our best player pre-season

Think we should get used to no Ratchford,he will be gone by the end of the season.A better club will snap him up and NOT PLAY HIM OUT OF POSITION AND NOT LEAVE HIM ON THE BENCH,and who can blame him

Do you honestly think Ratchford would have made any difference today? We were only 6 or 12 points down when he came on. Nothing against Ratchford, I think he's a (potentially) great player but he wouldn't have addressed the problems today. Smith's kicking game wasjust about the best thing about our play. And presumably most people think he should be playing in Smith's place

Ratchford wouldn't have stopped Patten not taking the kick at the end of their first set, he couldn't have made Henry catch the ball, stopped Parker knocking on after the first tackle on their try line, marked the ten metre line better for their second drop out, stopped Witt (I think?) breaking straight through the middle of the defence after Smith's kick had taken us from our own half to their 10m line.

It was crucial errors in defence that lost us this game, not a lack of attacking options

Correct analysis by RedUnderTheBed.
And for the record it wasn't the Head Coach who committed those blunders either.
He is beyond the point where I would defend him but there was so much that was simply not his fault.
Had those errors not happened at such crucial points in the game................

Totally agree! We just dont seem to have moved forward and weve seen this kind of form many times before. With the kind of play seen yesterday and the errors served up, it could have been any number of Salford players/ teams out there in Cardiff from over the past few years.