Absolutely. A "must win" game in that sense.

I think this game will see if we are a different team this year . Usually we would lose this game considering the circumstances , so in my eyes it's a massive game and could shape our season .

This is how I see it, Salford are on a hiding to nothing, but that's not how it usually pans out.

What circumstances? We have a fit/decent set of halves and have only one forward and a fullback missing, the latter of whom is being covered very adequately. In seasons past yes we have faltered (yet sometimes prevailed too) with far more players missing and either halves that are untried or players out of position filling in the halves..this isn't one of those occasions.

We should take Salford to the cleaners, anything less and we should be really looking at what went wrong.
And Minichello is doing a very good impression of Gaz Ellis so far as I knew he would.

A win would be more than sufficient.

Most people are , especially fc fans are expecting a hull win after how Salford have started and more importantly after Salfords last result . In my eyes a lot of teams respond after a dreadful performance like Salfords last game , and we usually go into these games ( players ) weak minded not having to show up mentally and expecting an easy win .

Exactly,some people trying to make out it's an easy game so they can go on the attack if we don't win comfortably.

Perceptive analysis.

Potential banana skin tomorrow.
A big test of if we have improved from last year .

I don't think our attack is capable of hammering any SL team at the minute so we're going to have to defend really well each week to get a win starting tomorrow. Winnable game but also one we could easily lose

How long before the game do the turnstiles open please?

Hopefully salford fans will want to know what time they open to let the home fans out!!! If all goes to script, they should be dead and buried at the 60 minute mark

I only hope you're right - it's a long way to go for the FC ghost of previous years to come back and haunt us.

At thE Trafford centre at last. Took over an hour to get down the last 6 miles of M60. Leave early people, road works everywhere.

Man U at home!!!!!!!

No, but just in case you missed the point, we lost without him, same as we did last night!

We've lost plenty with him since he joined too

Maybe because he plays in an average to poor Super League team?

Indeed

So what script were you referring too?
It really cheeses me off when fans think we have a God given right to win.
We were only marginally better then Salford last season.
We've had a good surprising win against Hudds a close game against Warrington followed by a poor defeat at Salford. So we are 2 from 6 same as Salford now.
I don't know why people expect us to be such a different proposition this season because mentally despite the change in playing personnel we appear to be still struggling to find motivation for the team's that should be in and around us come the end of the season.

Nail on head.
Plenty of posters predicting a stroll in the park last night.
They must be totally delusional, clueless, or a mixture of both.

Worrying thing is the team seemed to approach the game in the same way.

I'd say it's depressing rather than worrying TBH.

After last night's oh-so-predictable fiasco I realised that I'm moving into a state of indifference. I just can't get as worked up about these things any more - year after year after year of the same old e has worn me down.

People were saying after the Huddersfield game that we shouldn't get carried away yet after a couple of narrow defeats it seems OK to get carried away.

After time to reflect on last nights performance,its basically same as last season,after a honeymoon start to this season,a good win at the giants and a tight loss against warry we are back to normality.Against a side thrashed by saints and missing several key players,we desrvedly lose and it shows how inept radford is and how much difference ellis makes.I thought thompson was outstanding and also pryce (who i was against signing) had a good game,rankin and minichello had decent games,but yeaman,green,hadley,westerman,watts etc were poor and it seems like its going to be another long hard season.
If we have ambitions of making the 8 or higher which adam does,letting 32pts against a patched up salford team says to me,it isnt going to happen iam afraid.COYH.