The Russell pass off the floor levels out the penalty given for when Thewlis went into touch. By the letter, both are penalties, but nobody wants to see them given.

Struggling on the right in particular, but whenever they move the ball we look panicked. But equally whenever we get good ball and Williams gets it, they look flustered.

It’s in the balance, not a great game, but could be a tight finish.

A lot of naive crap being played here, given Salford exactly what they want. The sort of rubbish that has dogged us in the past.

Three knock-ons and two dumb penalties in the first 10 mins of the 2nd half. Very scruffy stuff. We need to sort this out quickly.

Oh no, that's a bad one for Leon.

Russell is very poor

Was Lindop not available?

Absolutely gutted, but glad we didn’t loan out Drinkwater for the season. On a positive, Drinkwater now gets the chance to put in some good performances to market himself to other clubs for 2025.

We dont deserve to win the game playing so dumb.

Walker to the bench next week for me. Not because of that tackle, that was a natural reaction. His play from 9 hasn't been great and brain farts have slipped into his game recently.

We have been poor across the field, Russell has been catastrophic.

Wtf is that by Powell, kick to nobody on the 4th.

Our worst performance this year, disjointed, disorganised & poor discipline

Awful, twice in the last 5 minutes we have panicked thinking it is the last when it isnt.

Didnt deserve anything.
15 errors.
A tired performance.

We're back to old school warrington, 2 weeks off after a big win

A kick up the we need ahead of the semi final.

Russell was awful not good enough.

Last two posts sum it up, we were due a reminder and got it today. Russell isn't super league standard anymore unfortunately. His knock on from that Watkins offload would've been gobbled up by a half decent SL winger.

We were all pants today, but he doesn't feel like he fits in with burgess team, he's a bit of a square peg

Gutted, more for Hayes than anything else. These are the games we should win to have any joy.

Collectively all off the ball today with Harrison and Williams maybe the exceptions.

Walker needs to calm down and his team mates need to do that I thought I was watching Captain frantic Brad Dwyer at times.

Russell was poor and with Ratchford at centre I felt we had no threat on either edge. Salford were letting that ball over the top knowing that Russel couldn't hurt them, his defence under high balls and that knock on, were painful.
Will do the watchback but let's hope it's a wake up and we go again.

The cracks are starting to show now aren't they. Right on cue. Walker had his worst game in a Wire shirt I thought, but then most didn't come away with much. King I thought was very good though.

Poor Russell. He played OK for us last year so a bit harsh to write him off yet.
It was touch & go today & against Leigh. But Wigan, Catalan & Saints looked poor this week. You just can't expect to win & play well every week.
Our forward interplay has been sussed. I'd like the Salford centres. So sorry for Hayes ... wot a lovely lad.

It was a poor, bitty sort of game, low on quality, but could have gone either way. You get peaks and troughs during a season - the Saints game was a peak and we have dipped since. Not sure about that penalty try, though. The ball was bouncing back out of the in-goal area, so a big call to say he would definitely have scored.

We were poor to average and were still looking like winning it until that penalty try. Shame Vaughan didn't get that ball down just before otherwise that would have sealed it. Salford are a decent side. But i always feel they raised their game against us. They're always tight games against them. We're always going to lose games but in previous seasons it was always the manner of them. I cannot say the same this season. We have always been in it until the end. Draw a line under it and move on to next week.

I thought that performance was absolutely abysmal to be honest. We’ve played a Salford side who didn’t play well and a 30% per cent performance would have got us over the line. Bar Williams and Hayes the rest of em were dreadful.

Lindop must be injured otherwise he needs to come in (or Lynch) if Ashton is injured and Ratchford and Russell should never trouble the first team again unless for an absolute emergency.

Vaughan also needs a good day talking to.

It’s about time we started getting serious links to a prop forward.
Especially as Dudson was arguably the best prop in the second period.

Once again Vaughan is not making me eat my own words.