Well played Hull KR, albeit so near, and in vein.

Certain you will get another crack at them next year in super league.

As things stand could see you turning Leigh, Huddersfield and Widnes over in middle 8s at the moment

I thought you gave it a decent shot for forty minutes and we didn't turn up, but the pace and power our pack played with in the second caused you too many problems. Mistakes crept in and along with the awful conditions didn't help you much. I think what you can take out of the game though is the ramp-up in intensity that your guys are not used to every week this season. it will stand you in good stead when you get into the real battles in the second half of the season. This may look like a similar Salford to you on paper from last year but it really is a different Salford this season in attitude, ability, and fitness.

Good luck for the rest of the campaign.

what a dick lannon is. not good enough to do that stuff still thought we could win it when back to 13 players then the ginger boy got lucky with his patback , hicks didn't do us any favours, but just faded slightly 2nd half,. looks promising for the middle 8s though.

How come Jamie Ellis didn't play in the second half ?

Lost on my double but very happy with performance. 4 pts behind with 5 or so minutes to go and Cockayne gets shut down. They go off and score .Game over.In perspective we couldn't win this comp,a valiant loss is heartening.

well drubbed

no that was you

Have you still got that chip on your shoulder? Remember your bitter rants on our board from the end of last season so guess you're still clinging onto it. Assuming you're a guy, you need to get it on with Jools from Hudds, you make a right pair!

As for the game, was really impressed with Rovers tonight and kn that showing can see you in the MPG and having a 50/50 crack at going up. Complete game of 2 halves with KR more than good value for the lead at HT. Excellent kicking game and intensity in defence and you looked a threat with ball in hand as well.

We obviously got the half time rocket and came out fired up and overran you first 20 in the 2nd half. It was only then that the rain came down and both teams started to make mistakes making it a nervy last 20. Despite the MPG nonsense and some of the mud slinging, I'd like to see KR back in SL next year and on tonight's showing you've got a really good chance.

All the best for the rest of the season.

I'd love to win this competition, but this year I'm glad to be out.

We don't need this distraction.

This year is all and only about getting out of this godforsaken league.

Hull Kingston Rovers are a premium team and should be playing in the premier division..

Well played HKR, had a good go, but was reminded that a SL team has an extra gear when needed.

As both teams are working on the same cap, confirms that the correct team won the MPG .

Despite a ref who awarded 2 dubious tries to HKR, Salford started to play in the second half and show the difference between SL and championship.

The 3000 travelling HKR fans. Which meant the East stand was opened just for them, turned out to be mythical and was hundreds not thousands. On TV the empty east stand was opened for the massive HKR support! (I assume Neil Hug will shortly release a statement, accepting responsibility for the massively inflated HKR fan numbers and accepting the cost of opening an extra stand?)

Anyway. Good luck in the middle rights and I suppose the lesson is you need to be able to play for the full 80 mins, and Sheens isn't all that after all.

Ah yes! Jools, Gall', Stevered....the people who camped out on the Salford forums and Twitter. Tonight where shown the why they are in championship. And good luck n the middle 8.

We struggled for the first 20 of the 2nd half. Then during the sin bin we got back into it. After that Charles Hawtry decided to kill us. 7-2 penalty count , 2nd half.
You were poor 1st half because we outplayed you.
Good luck to yourself. However your f#ckwitted owner is a difficult man to like.

He was good at waving Lunt past him.

What a post. Worthy of scrote of the year.this game confirmed nothing in regards to last year,KR lost a tight game away to a team in form.if I was a Salford fan I wouldn't besmirch an away supports numbers or for that matter a home attendance.I remember walking away from a magic weekend just after koukrash bought Salford and a reds fan was gobbing off about how they would win the league and buy success.credit to him for sticking around but he's flogging a dead horse when a winning team can't attract any new support and frankly you crowing about just scraping home against us is testament to the type of guy you are.the correct attitude would have been you played well, tough game, best team won on night, was a decent turnout on a Friday night in a competition that doesn't attract big attendances. You instead write a load of bilge.be off with you and go catch anthrax

Jools Ste100 Atomic ffs even Jean and Smokey are more welcome here than you. A ball bag of epic proportion. .I know someone called Kiyan and he's a turk.nice guy,quite an unusual name wouldn't you say?

I am normally not a person who posts on other fans boards or spends time berating clubs on Twitter but after some of the comments from Hudgell. JP, and all your fans who (like Leigh last year ) think being top of championship makes you special. I will take time to come here and ask a few questions!
1) we know Salford does not have great crowds, but where was the 4000 HKR travelling support? The east stand was opened just for you and was empty! The north stand was less than half full! ( For the MPG it partly blamed Salford for inflating numbers - tonight you had 5500 places and 500 showed up.
2) thanks to Leigh last year. You have the same cap as a SL team, so why where you taken apart ( does Sheens only work for 30 mins)
3) 2 dubious tries, but hey ho!
4) like Leigh 2 years ago, your fitness is suspect. You ran out of energy after 30 minutes.

You are a good championship side,but not sure how you will do with the big boys.

Salford are spending over the salary cap you fukw1t, anyone with half a brain cell can work out that cockrash is giving back handers to players there. As for this finding it difficult against SL crap, that Salford team will probs finish top 4 this year, so I'm not worried. Rovers will get promoted without the need for the mpg. Missing a few players, we came close tonight, had it been at craven park, we'd of probably beat your boys. Feel sorry for your club a bit, doing everything they can to make RL a big deal in Salford an still you get shocking crowds. Unfortunately, you'll disappear when the cock man leaves. An ran out of energy, what a rubbish statement, had that been the case, Salford woulda and shoulda run riot, but they didn't. If we did run out of steam, then a good few SL teams need to work on their fitness to catch up with the mighty Salford don't they?

We'll be back next year, and we'll overtake you again in the next few years. Just you continue supporting little old Salford with the other thousand that attend in that tin pot stadium of yours.

And rovers are spending no where near the cap.

I really don't know where you get off having ago at anyone's away support, when your home support is shocking, like you said in a previous post the correct team won the MPG, ask yourself this would you still have a team to talk ballocks about if you hadn't won that game? Or would you have 7 to 8000 home support and a 1000 to 1500 away supporters watching championship rugby like us?
And what statements are you talking about from JP? Because he has been pretty quiet this year so if you could point me in the direction of any statement made that would be much appreciated

Quality post from a fan of a club punished for spending over the cap, whose following numbers wise is one of the worst in the sport and a chairman who is known for his public comments of wisdom.
We have overseas quotas unfilled and are about 20% under the cap.
We tired....we did fine with 12 men in the second half and got a better result than Wigan and the sharks did when they played you at their's.
You were well looked after by Rodney Trotter.
Can someone clarify. Is punching an automatic sending off/sin bin offence still. He gave us a penalty for punching...no sending off.
You were made mugs of for large chunks of the game. The only dubious things about our tries was Dobson's defending....again
Maybe you should follow your previous idea and not post on forums at all.
You were a drop goal from going out of existence never mind relegation.
When we were in trouble our fans stepped and bought and now run the club.
When the good doctor gets bored or sectioned what is your massive fan base going to do? All put a quid in and buy one player a pair of boots.

Wow, some of you lot have serious issues. You played well last night and lost to a better team, why so bitter? And love hearing the old "you're breaking the cap" nonsense being wheeled out again, just smacks of sour grapes.

Btw, I Sky+'d the game and watched it again when I got in last night. Hicks actually had a decent game and bar the 2nd Hull KR try (obstruction by Ellis) he got nothing majorly wrong. A couple of 50/50 calls at the PTB for both teams being the only ones I saw.

Why fans of a team top of the championship think they should be winning away at a SL team sat 3rd in the table having beaten Cas (home) and Wigan & Hull"s biggest club away is beyond me. Looks like you lot are catching Leyther syndrome!icon_wink.gif

Btw Mox, how did you work out Salford were breaking the salary cap if it takes someone with half a brain cell to do it? Did you go halves on a brain cell with BF?

Lunt - magnificent, Minns exceptional talent, Scruton great work horse & Abdull & Blair just about OK but Rervers need about 15 better players to mix it in SL next year. Good luck in Middle 8s and for a Friday night the support was great.

One thing about your 2 tries. Both would have been chalked off if sent upstairs & the mighty Dobson was not at fault. Watch the replays again.

It says a lot about a set fans when the performance is ignored in favour of 'Cheating the cap', 'No fans', 'Mk is a bell-end'. Quite pathetic.