I think Salford have started the season quite well but I'll admit I was one of those who thought they'd be well down the table (think I predicted 10th). TBF the way you scraped through the Middle 8's rightly wouldn't install confidence to place Salford too high this season and with Koukash you do wonder if you're never too far away from some soap opera drama causing a distraction. But if not then Top 8 spot could definitely be on the cards all be it's still early days and it's looking like it might be a bit of a close scrap to avoid the bottom 4 especially with Warrington surprisingly down at the bottom now but who will more than likely start to climb up. The only team I'd confidently say at this moment will be in the bottom 4 are Widnes.

Carney did not get on: it would have been daft to break up the Salford half-back combinationand many of us are praising Watson for the strong management here: so tempting to put him on.
No complaints here for Cas or their fans. Nice to see another unpopular side (to some of the media) doing well.

Having 6 points from 6 games and a positive points difference must be one of our better starts to a SL season but i'm taking nothing for granted yet. The narrow loss at Leeds and, even more so, at Wakefield are both encouraging that we are competing away from home and warnings that it would be easy to keep losing close games and miss out on the 8s
But i'm very happy with the start we've made and we look more competitive in all areas. We lack a bit of pace in the backs but Dobson and Lui have gelled well again and our forwards are fighting above their weight (Adam Walne and Olsi Krasniqi were both superb yesterday). It is an interesting conundrum where we fit Carney in. I too thought we would regret not bringing him on yesterday as the game seemed to be slipping away, but we held our nerve and forced the errors from Cas which gave us field position to win it
It was a brave call by Watson to leave Carney on the bench - big name star at Salford for a month and not played yet is unheard of - but shows he has the courage of his convictions and it turned out to be the right call for him. Well done Watto

To be honest there is so much rubbish in super league we might have to fight really hard for our spot in the cellar, it's certainly going to be a tough ask to get in there this year .