not using him as a scapgoat
5 tries scored down slaford's right side....sykes out of position for each one of them tires and the 6th one was when he tried putting a shot on holdsworth and completley missed him ..leading to another try...
6x4 = 24..56-24 = 32... take out a few conversions and we woulda still been in it
okay the ref didnt help with the forward pass to bryn but still
sykes is not upto superleague standard and as soon as royston is fit again should be dropped without a doubt

let all the abuse towards me begin

Agreed.
Cant blame him for that shambles tonight but i agree he should be dropped, its all well and good big hitting a player if you make the tackle but when you dont and they score from it you look a fool.

Sykes is p!sh but he was no worse than anyone else. Bar Briggs of course.

Briggs was really bad today.

well briggs can fill in at 6...but not upto sl standard
all those having a go at herbert should sit down and shut up asd he was the only player to do anything today
ainscough oddly had a shoccker

Yes Sykes was bad and Briggs but donno was awful what an error/ penalty machine. Royston isn't injured either. Heaven knows hOw we will go on against Leeds. Thought burgess was too slow today, looked very large and lethargic, time for crossely to have a go?

Briggs was poor but i think he needs a chance hes been out injured hes only young and this is his first season in the super league i think he will improve and come good.

No he won't.

And you know this how?

burgess has done ligaments
he went down in a tackle....stayed down...left the pitch but they didnt show it on the tv if he was assisted off..
nothing said so bulls keeping another injury quiet

Are we not going down the line of singling out players for poor team performances again? Think the '09 season (Platt) and last year (Worrincy). Actual case was surely the vast majority of players were to blame for both bad seasons? Sykes has taken the mantle for this year but the fact remains there is a considerable amount not playing well enough right now.

Tonight was horrendous. Let's just hope we can improve. Slagging off individuals isn't going to help anything.

No idea how we're going to regroup for Thursday, but that gives me a weird sense of hope. I couldn't put a case forward for a Bradford win in the Good Friday '09 fixture either.

No one player deserves their own thread tonight - all of them should be extremely disappointed and ashamed at what they served up.

Credit to Salford though - they found a weakness down that side and were ruthless. It wasn't only Sykes who was left wanting in defence though.

sykes caused 6 of salfordds tries....ye good on salford for exploiting bad..no absolute $h!te positional play

Sykes on his own caused them? Give it a rest.

Because I know more than you do.