Great try that never was. Eden collects the kick and runs around a few players. Straighten up and passes it out to Leroy, Leroy to McGillvary and then back inside. One on one with (Knitting) Patten. He is unstitched with a great pass for us to score.

Hicks blows last pass as forward. Dodgy wit.

The ref was crap, utter and complete crap, I hope we don't have to endure any more performances from him again, words can't describe how sh*te he was today.

Didn't go to game. Away with rlr family on holiday at the moment - but deal was we can come home on Monday morning for hull game and still be considered a good dad.
Listened on Internet radio Leeds - so don't know details - only overall picture as described by average commentators.

But to keep an attacking freestyle Salford to soo few points must be good. Also to score that many points with a bad ref and error prone performance sounds good.

Looking at players tweets they all thought a good 2 points against a strong Salford without playing at our top level. Sounds like we won ugly again - which is such an improvement on previous years where we could lose ugly with the best of them ... Was crusaders really a year ago ?

Sounded like a try of the season was ruled out too.

Any serious injuries btw ?

I thought Hicks had a complete 'mare. His 10m was erratic in terms of distance he set and he didn't police it aside from pinging us a couple of times which was frankly ridiculous when you saw the fact Salford didn't even bother all game.

He was very poor today and I think when he watched it back he will admit it himself.

Run Leroy- all through unscathed!

Thanks jools.
Couldnt tell from commentators nor from initial match reports.
Can't wait to see lod muscling forward again.

Interesting that you guys are calling the ref - whilst I absolutely agree that Hudds were the better team today, two of your tries were gifted by Mr Hicks - first half, two Huddersfield players carried our winger into touch, feet completely off the ground which should have been a penalty to Salford, instead you got the put in at the scrum then scored, then I think the second try in the second half was possibly the most blatant forward pass of the season, right in front of Mr Hicks - play on

But I also thought both teams were playing with an eye on Monday, kicking early and trying to conserve some energy - unfortunately for us you did it rather better than we did

Overall I enjoyed the game but not the result - just a tad flattering your way

The result was in no way flattering at all. You are dreaming if you think that. Had we won by 50 it might have been flattering, as it was to win by 26 was the least we deserved.

I couldnt actually believe what i saw this afternoon.......was Mr Hicks doing this for a dare??? he was absolutely atrocious and i am staggered that an official that is so bad can actually be allowed to step up to Super League level.......someone kept shouting look at there line hicks ...what line ? i didnt realise 'zig-zag' was now how to form a defensive line in rugby league !.
He didnt look down the line once and at times the Salford players were a full grass cut difference in front and still he failed to see them !!.

And with the Robbo no try i had to rub my eyes to make sure i wasnt seeing things.....did a Salford player actually remove the ref's hand in the act of awarding the try in his protest to have it chalked off? i'm sure something like that happened before he consulted with the guy who had already ok'd the try !!.

Forward passed were missed all night and ok balls were called back as forward.....3 times i think this happened to us in scoring.
The intereference on Luke when he was trying to make a tackle was almost an assault and he let that go too.........i'm sorry to be harsh but there is no way this bloke is anywhere near upto SL standard ( even though that standard is generally poor anyway) and should have at least another 2 yers in the lower leagues to help him see the game better !!.

As for the game, Eden was head and shoulders above everyone else tonight and was unstoppable with ball in hand, LOD brought the monster we saw last year back out, Chan worked hard again and i thought Leroy deserves a mention too as he wa always probing and seeking a way through.

Yep agree with the winger one- terrible mistake- not sure how you can call a pass forward from behind the sticks but he certainly missed plenty, he also failed to get Salford on side for most of the game, blew up for holding down within moments of some tackles but allowed others to go on for an age- very inconsistent refereeing. The penalty he gave against brown was a joke and he managed to chalk off a contender for try of the season which he was no where near!

Hicks was a disgrace today and they weren't errors he made cos didn't happen both ways.

Salford gameplan was to slow the game to a standstill , constantly play offside and Hicks allowed them to do it.

Disallowed 3 Giants tries 2 for forward passes, would love to see them back as the last looked perfectly fine?

Disallowed Robbo try after awarding it at first but been advised otherwise by the in-goal touch judge who had slipped on a Salford shirt somewhere along the way!!!

Hard to stomach after the first Salford try which appeared to have been dropped/bounced by the scorer. Hard to tell and would like to see it again.

Hicks needs demoting but then again so do Bentham, Ganson, Silverwood and most of em to be honest.

Trouble is there isn't enough pressure being put on the refs to get it right, not enough help from the waste of spaces with the flags.

About time we had video ref at every game and also possibly looking at a ref to police the defensive team and one for the attacking team?

I am sure a proper RL fan just wants to see a great game won by the best team on the day without any help from the ref who shouldn't be noticed for the full 80 minutes.

good result today, lets hope the scoreline will be similar on monday

All the passes Hicks gave as forward were forward, the Eden one to Brown didn't need to be, that was the only complaint. Cannot argue with any of the forward passes he gave, sure he missed one or two but he certainly cottoned on to more than most ref! So I would actually congratulate Hicks on that aspect of his refereeing. The aspect where he did poorly in the main was the offside. And it wasn't just Salford. We got away with it a few times too. I think a fair few people on here need to look at decisions in the cold light of day before shouting for the guys head. Not the best refereeing performance ever, but he's hardly Russel Smith bad!

You see what I have to put up with when I sit next to him at matches??? He's forever wearing his unbiased hat!

Have to agree with LI's forward passes judgement. However, there were lots of other 'strange' decisions.

i did not think the pass to Brown was forward. level at worst

Didn't think the pass to Brown was forward and I would argue that the Robbo "double movement" had never seen a double movement in a month of sundays. The ref was crap, Salford were allowed to get away with so many offsides/interfering at the ptb that it became embarrassing, the number of blatant (not borderline) forward passes not seen by him and the touchies was unbelievable to say the least, the ref had lost the plot completely when he looked to have signalled for the video ref after one try ??????
So I would actually congratulate Hicks on being the worst referee we've had this season (by a country mile) and sincerely hope that we don't get him again in the foreseeable future, or better still he goes back to amateur rugby (where he might be OK) and we never have to see him again.

Utter rubbish, i was bang in line on the 20 metre for the Eden pass, Brown was level then checked himself to stay behind, never in a million years was that forward.

The last pass on the length of the field try was a mile forward though

Wish folk would actually learn the definition of a forward pass. -the laws of physics dictate that te ball WILL travel forward from the point it was passed and the faster the player is travelling the further the ball goes forward. Using the lines in the pitch will not determine a forward pass!!!!!!! B

This is correct on both points. I was sitting in roughly the same place...first try was a quaterback's pass...no try. The Kev Brown one afterwards though was a perfectly legitimate score.

Oh and yes the "ref" was going to award the Robbo try but was bullied out of it by the Salford players. One of the most remarkable incidents I've ever seen on a rugby pitch...Hicks virtually had the whistle pulled out of his mouth...astonishing.

Be interesting to see the 1st Salford try, that looked a bounced ball and the in goal stood his ground indicating no try, yet the robbo one, the in goal went back to the back line indicating its a try, both were given the opposite by Hicks.

i thought the lawrence try looked forward, i thought salford's first try looked dodgy but didn't thinkthe pass from eden to brown was not even debatable, but all in all i thought hicks was poor and seemed to forget about offside for most of it.
however, another win despite not playing well again, we are doing enough to keep winning and thats good enough for me at this stage of the season.

I'm well aware of both the forward pass rule and the laws of physics thank you very much. The Eden pass to Brown was forward.

I'd have to disagree with you LI, purely based on the fact that Brown definately checked his run to stay behind Eden

That and the fact it was clearly backwards