Ref was, as always, horrendous!

Anderson was poor in defence, again.

Match killer for me, Holdsworth and his comlete lack of attacking ability. No clue with ball in hand or with the boot! Oh, and it doesn't help having a fullback who can't catch or tackle!!

Harsh words but with the way I'm feeling this week it's taking all I got to be this nice. I hope Mr Parish can get more out of our so called "Stars".

Howevers, forwards (Cashmere especially) and wingers (Williams especially) had cracking games

Fabulous finish by Broughton and sold effort from Nero as usual.

Would be interested in the penalty count and the order received...

Also, Holdsworth missed the conversion to the first try, by a lot actually, but incredibly the touch judges raised their flags!!

The penalty count was 13-10 to us. The order of penalties was ("L" being penalties Leeds conceded, "S" being penalties Salford conceded):
L, S, S, S, L, S, S, L, L, L, L, S, L, L, S, L, L, L, L, L, S, S, S.

Momentum is everything in rugby leasge you just couldnt make it pay when yopu had it !!

i agree, we ( salford ) lost that game due to our poor first half performance conceeding 18 points after us bombing oppurtunity after oppurtunity, we had a lot of possession but couldnt convert it to points unfortunately, yes i agree there should of maybe been a yellow card but there wasn't.
Our attack in the firest half looked absolutely clueless it improved in the second half but we blew it in the first half thats all i have got to say!!!

Yes, ref was rotten. I thought the way silverwood called back every quick penalty, and generally slowing the game down was dreadful.

However, poor as the ref was, you can't blame him. Lack of cutting edge probably cost us the match. We had a few repeat sets on the Leeds line early on, and didn't convert that into points. We need to be more clinical turning possession on the opposition line into points. That way horrendous decisions from the ref won't matter too much.

Good thing is that we got ourselves into that position in the first place. Good performance from the forwards, and we did rally a bit in the second half, on another night, who knows. Coach has 2 weeks to instill a bit of finesse into the squad, get us finishing off our opportunities, and for once I think we have a man who might just be able to do it.

For me i would change the team slightly id have the same backs as started tonight have smith in at 7 ratchford at 6 holdsworth to loose moving wild into second row and godwin to come back in at hooker with sneyd on the bench, the attack seems clueless under holdsworth of recent so give this a go but hey what do i know !!!

That was one of the most innept refereeing performances I've ever seen, I though the ref was there to encourage a flowing open game and not to try to be centre stage and slow play down at every oppertunity.

I think he was as poor for both teams.

I don't however blame him for losing, missing touch and two pieces of absoloute magic from the Rhinos saw to that.

Got to love Yorkshire folk. If you read the post properly I actually blame the defeat on a lack of concentration, lack of attacking ideas and lack tackling technique from someone who should do much better. I was never actually blaming the ref!

Better side on the night?

Leeds were definitely more clinical and took their chances well, but we scored some good tries in the second half. The class of Buderus did show for that first try, excellent support and a fine pass. The try we let Bailey in for was just an embarrassment.

If our new coach give us a little more cutting edge, in attack, and get the players not to lose concentration, in defence, then Salford will be a top eight team.