For me, given the difference since Gale has been on the pitch, the only way Lino gets back in now is either A) Gale is injured or B) he swallows his pride and agrees to play hooker. Got doubts about option B….

One of the things that I noticed last night was that we spread the lineout from wing to wing marking them man for man. Unless I missed it, I never noticed an occasion when Salford created an overlap on either wing, The defence was excellent and we've even greatly reduced the handling errors. Well done lads. Keep it up.

The difference I noticed was the number of players backing up the break, in one try there was half the team in support.

A few comments have been made in reports about Salford missing a few - well that doesn’t wash with me at all.
How many games have we played this year with a full compliment - none!
The lads won last night because they out enthused Salford and credit to their coach who acknowledged that.

Salford broke away twice ,Max made two great tackels to stuff out the attack. Seems Max get stick when he missed a tackle .Was my man of match last night

There were several stand-out players for me..I thought Atoni was outstanding (where's THAT player been hiding all season ??), Jowitt, Kay, Dagger, Gale, Hood and even Lineham put in a very good shift




Also, big raps to Fifita who was clearly playing through the pain-barrier and could hardly walk off the pitch at the end, I'm told it was due to sciatica (??)

Now available to watch on Trinity TV.

Watched the game on Trinity Tv this morning. Gale played the game in a dinner suit, what seems simple as a spectator is obviously a lot more demanding playing the game. His kicking game, organising and pass selection is something we really haven’t seen all season. He literally never shut up talking all game. I know Salford were missing Croft and Ackers, but we’re missing players too. 1-17 have had a huge confidence boost and our forwards ie Fifita and Atoni allowing our backs to play on the front foot. Pleasure to watch.

Someone quoted on RWB Army, that with two back to back improved performances, Atoni could be like a new addition.

Granted he's improved to where he was, but I think that was a bit of an over reaction, and maybe a bit premature.

I don't! - he's not been SL standard up to now and literally a passenger making the numbers up!
The last two games have shown we do have a SL quality player, so it is like getting a player we didn't
have before!
The big question is, can he keep it up? I hope so because having another quality prop, alongside Fifita, Bowden and Battye IMO, is the key to survival or not.

I agree. I was happy to replace him a few weeks ago.
If we'd replaced him with the Atoni who played the last two games I'd have been overjoyed.