It's not really hard for potter to leave the club in a better state than what he came into it. I am starting to think he won't make as serious improvement as expected by a lot of people. Never thought i'd see defeats of such margin this year.

Some of our players really are dross. Don't care how many games they have played, you know when someone isn't good enough, you just have to hope to be proved wrong.

He was still on the winning side though, and contributed more than most of the Bradford forwards.

I'm not sure who should be more embarrassed to be honest...

Us for having him, or you for letting a side containing said whale to batter you....

I think the Willows is Potter's hoodoo ground! Saints lost their matches there for both of the years he was coach.

I think we may have a few more hoodoo grounds by the end of this year!

SaintFan may have a point.

I mentioned on the Salford forum, how good your rush defence was in the first 20mins or so. The problem is the level of intensity seemed to be unsustainable, and what looked like an out muscled Salford pack in those first 20mins, then looked like Supermen. Even Feka started to pump his legs.

This is one of the factors that lost you the game, along with a heavy penalty count and poor sliding defence/general tackling, something Salford fans are normally used to whitnessing from their own team.

You guys need to get a grip,you win some lose some,salford did us over at the willows after we played poor and tbh reading inbetween the lines you was beaten by a better team.Im sure you will have some great wins this year but sometimes you will play cr@p and suffer.Today was just a bad day at the office and tomorrows another day folks...

Five years of poor player recruitment have taken us to the point where at today. Average signings been asked to produce better than average results. We are poor and no better than last year only this time we have a few more average players than we had last year !

When I was watching the game I was embarrased but after I had 'calmed down' I actually thought about it. Potter has given out 1 year deals, which obviously means he's trying to find players which suit his style of play so this season is more of a 'testing' season to see which ones he's gunna keep or get rid of. This will hopefully bring us consistancy in a few seasons time.

Another thing is that I'm getting sick of this flat ball all the time. Give it to trhe back man so he can distribute it to Centres/Wingers.

Briggs had a poor game but I believe he will get better, this was his first game with a proper 7 in Marc Herbert (who is also improving a lot). L'Estrange was pretty poor too in my opinion. Kicking game needs sorting, 20 points behind with 20 mins left and we drill it into touch??

If I was the coach I would get the lads together and knock them down to earth, shouting about how there are etc. Then when they are at their lowest, build them back up again with a different mindset.

I enjoy it when bradford get hammered. You dished plenty out in the early SL years. It's karma

Should be a cracking game on thursday against us...........we cant defend, you cant defend.........two clueless sides could be comedy gold!!!

You cant do that. Players respond better to peace and love and a nice little chat over a cup of tea. Shouting and balling and criticisng poor play and performances never works. Ever

I am not having a go here just asking a question. Have you played rugby before? I have been on the end of some hidings. A nice chat to each INDIVIDUAL at the start of the game yes that works. However when it comes to being hammered and playing crap thats when bollockings work, it does for my team and we usually start performing then. Saying that though my team consists of 16 year olds who arn't getting paid and who actually have pride and passion for the shirt they are wearing and also the passion for the game.

Ive only played a little bit of rugby in my time.
I was taking the Michael by the way, Potter should frikin hammer them this week because the nicey nicey approach doesnt work. Period.

i thought mcnamara was the problem and things would be better under a new coach?
did i hear right it was the first time salford had posted 50 points in super league?
unlucky bulls!

Ah sorry I didn't detect the sarcasm, yup he should give them the bollocking of a lifetime