The problems we have can be attributed to all parts of the club-- The board for giving Sean Mc crae a four and a half year contract, then him going off sick after two games with stress, the fact that the Australians have some strange contract allowing them to stay in OZ until after Xmas whilst the rest of the Squad have been training from November. The coach , who chose the new players then bailed, because he realised that his shortcomings would soon come to light. The players have to take some of the blame, they are professional sportsmen and basic mistakes shouldnt happen, and their is a distinct lack of leadership on the pitch. What is required is a coach who can coach both defence and attack, who can be innovative and can bring on young players, and players who really want to play for the club. Hopefully we can get these pieces of the jigsaw together and the club can move forward into a bright new era.

I say again that on Friday we were doing ok in an arm wrestle until a minute before half time.
Nothing wrong with the players decision making then.
We then shipped an early try and that was that.
There was an an earlier reference on here to it being a forum for fools.
It isnt,obviously,but it is time for some "voices of reason" to speak out.
We have a good squad and they need stability in the coaching set up.
We are not that far off.

to be honest the whole conceeding 12 points around half time imo is the players fault entirely, to do it once is a mistake to do it every week borders on insane, yes the players are tired, yes its hard work but there are two teams on the field of athletes who in theory eat the same stuff, train the same time, sleep the same time, our opponents know that if they keep their completion level up though the half keep turning us around making us play out of our own 20 and up the intensitity for 10 minutes eather side of half time there is a gimmy 12 points to be had

To break the cycle you need to take control in that 20 minute period its so important in rugby league and it seems to me its not even addressed we have a problem in that department on the playing side of the club, a 12 point gap is a match winning / losing gap your shipping 12 points every week you will need at least 3 trys every week to get a fighting chance, if we are to move forward the players need to reaily think about how they are to improve their performance in that peroid of the game because our opponents smell blood and will go for the kill.

Get through that period of the game scoreless and im always quitely confident we will get a result regardless who we are playing

in the first half we had 4 great chances to score, 2 of them overlaps when the ball was taken back inside, that is wrong decision making, don't draw the defender to you and then go the way he wants you to go, the gap is there we just couldn't see it.

Perhaps easier to see the gap from the stands.
If they didn't see the gap then they couldn't have made the wrong decision.
They could only decide on what they could see!

Sorry but when you have agruably the quickest winger in the league you should be looking to get the ball out to his wing with every possibility. Coming back inside seems to have been Salfords stocking move for the past 5 years and is something I've no doubt a decent coach will erradicate as quickly as possible.