yeh not the 50 like a previous salford fan posted... another one who has a misconception like the one who said we have 3k and not 5k fans.

but when we get a decent away following in usually means one thing...defeat.

Regardless of all that has been said, everyone wishes all the fans travelling a safe and incident free journey and hopefully a great game to watch.

Oh dear- back to awful. Rankins positioning has been poor- and we've let the ball beat us today. Losing seb and Jerry has affected our go forward- we've had none. We haven't played this badly since the start of the season.

That does not bode well for Rankin!
It's ok bringing in all these players who can do a job for us, and we do have the team to be in the top 6, but it's no good if we cannot keep them fit and healthy. This has been our problem for the last 2 seasons now, garbage conditioning and injury prevention. Our main target in the off season has got to be another Greg Brown type of conditioner. Where is Greg now, oh yes I remember Salford.

Rankin clearly not match fit- spending a bit of time stretching out during the game.

If you are referring to the 40/20's the winger usually drops back on either the 3rd or 4th tackle onwards and as Dobson had kicked virtually everything up to that point down the middle where is the FB supposed to be ??

McIntosh should have dropped back as Jerry does every week.

We played well and we're on top for 15/20 minutes until Seb got hurt and Mr B decided to play his hand when we didn't get the ball for 15 minutes due to his whistle and some fair kicking from a Salford 18pt blitz and even then Lui's try was a jammy rebound kick. We still pulled back for 18-10 at the half so I think you are going very OTT here Jools.

I didn't see Ferguson 2nd half either we had 6 players sat in the stand that would have started it could easily have been a 60pt blowout with the injuries and tackling we had to do but we hung in to end up only 16 pts behind get real it wasn't what we wanted but it wasn't that bad.

well the writing was on the wall when mcgillvary pulled out and then we lost ikahihifo eary on during the game! we started really well but salford got on top and put the game to bed early in the second half with that period they had, two 40/20's two tries!

the lads heads could have dropped but credit to them for digging in and scoring two tries, the last one that mcintosh scored was a beauty!

injury curse seems to have striked again

lost more today.

not too disheartened, salford are a good team and cant give them the amount of possession we did today with their attacking players.

on to next week now, big one to keep us in the top 8

aye mr greg brown.. strangely enough i think salford had a full team today too!!!

thats pretty much how i saw the game too, jools way OTT.

Greg certainly knows how to keep the players healthy and on the pitch.

Nope- not really referring to the 40/20s more his positioning at the try line- he didn't seem to be anticipating the plays very well at all-although saying that it is the fullbacks job to organise the defence and if he wanted the winger to drop back he needs to say- otherwise none could do or both!
To me this is the problem with sticking a new player in a key position. Rankin could have played on the wing and mackintosh at FB where he is more familiar.

Exactly, we lost our best 2 players, and the 2 we rely on most to make us ground.
Don't think we were that bad today, Salford are a good side who got on a roll, at times they had 3, 4 dummy runners near our line - hard to defend against that, though i thought our 1 on 1 tackling could have been better, not too disheartened by that showing, thought Rankin did well on debut too.

Need some bodies back for Friday, 2 points and I reckon we are safe in the top 8 and job done. We can then go into the Super 8's under no pressure and hopefully with a lot of players back.

Your final try was a real beauty. One of the best I've seen this year.

yeh that try surely has to be in with a chance for try of the season!!

At it again today, throwing drinks at the referee and their own coaching staff

"Drinks"
I'd heard it was another kind of liquid- the kind they used to throw at us as we passed the threppeny stand at at the boulevard!!!!

Thought everyone played well on Friday, but tough our spine was excellent, we actually used Brough as a decoy and had 2/3 assists from Rankin, 3 from Leeming, a try from O'Brien a try from Hinchy and just great organisation from Brough and Ridyard.

Massive credit to Rankin for organising a defence to a clean sheet in his second game at the back. Widnes lacked execution, but we were always there to pressure them into forcing the errors. Looking forward to the game against Leigh this Friday.

aye not helping themselves with the bad publicity are they this salford mob

what was the actual attendance for salford v huddersfield???

not reported anywhere!

Oops thought this was the Widnes thread... Haha

Salford are going to end up with more spectators with lifetime bans than are actually attending their games

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cheers

not even 3k salford fans on the day and earlier a poster said we dont have 5k fans but on friday is was a crowd over 5k again at the john smiths....

got to laugh at the comment on that twitter page too a fan saying no way did giants take that many fans

they just cant accept us having fans can they?!? or choose not to look at facts

They don't have many- but the ones they do have know how to cause trouble!