Have to admit,song of the night goes to the Salford fans 'Its just like playing in church . sssssshhhhh'

If you listen or read Some of Royce Simmonds, pre match/ post match reviews he is very much operating with constraints due to the season long injury situation. He mentions he has to dumb down to basic plays, when a few young players are brought into the team especially in the back line.
I,ve mentioned it before I think you should judge him when he has a near full choice settled team for 4 or 5 matches on the bounce. I think Simmonds has managed to keep the wheels on the wagon to achieve 3rd,n my opinion if Potter was in charge this season I reckon we would be outside the top 4.

Really I'm not trying to talk Simmons down, I think he has done well but can't agree with everything.


I seam to recall Simmons saying he wanted a defensive average of 16 this year. Well he's got 19, best he can hope for is 18 over the whole seaon if we nil quins next week.

This would be a defensive improvement on last year.

As it stands only Wigan and Warrington could match this target of 16. Warrington managing to average a very good 14 for the season.

In the first half, lomax went in under the sticks and I thought he'd scored, but no try was given and the result was a drop out. I was too far away to make out what happened - can anyone enlighten me?

One very encouraging thing about Friday's game was that in the 2nd half, Lomax came up with 3 excellent long kicks, hopefully they weren't flukes and he's been working on that side of his game..

He had the ball stripped over the line. Looked like he was going to score, but the Salford player stole the ball in a one on one as they were falling to the floor. Lomax completed the tackle by falling on him so it was a drop out.

Right. I sit down towards the other end so couldn't really make it out. Aperently I also missed Soliola doing a dance after he scored?