I think coach and owner need to have a discussion. The team had 4 days off, including the weekend, and were trained very hard on the other days. Wakefield had 10 days off and turned up refreshed, bright eyed and bushy tailed, as opposed to running onto the field already tired.

Perhaps we should stop questioning the players' loyalty commitment and passion and, instead, question if they are being properly prepared?

Surely now is the time to blood some of the fringe players and see what they have to offer? What are the chances?

I'd make 2 points on this:

1) It really is a confidence game and not many teams come back from 3 tries down early on in a game. We've suffered with that plenty of times ourselves. If you let a team get the better of you early on and take a decent lead then one team just gains confidence that they can keep scoring and the other starts to believe they can't get back into it. Only the mentally strongest teams tend to recover from that scenario, and Salford (like Wakefield) are not really one of those teams at this stage in their development.

2) I know Koukash has saved your club and brought some much needed character and publicity into the sport but his reaction again does your team no favours. This is the sort of statement that should be coming from the coach and not the owner IMO. Owners meddling in team affairs rarely works, that's why you have a coaching team. Dr Koukash should be bawling out Harris and letting him bawl out the team, otherwise he just undermines the coach and causes more harm than he solves.

It could well be a pressure thing, did your players see it as their cup final? I never saw anything involving Wakey heaping pressure on the team or speccis, for me it was just another game, no pressure as it was gonna be difficult to make the 8.

I couldn't agree more....

I love the fact that he's a fan and hurts like the rest of us and he is entitled to tweet about dissatisfaction etc, however, it's for the coach to decide who plays, stays or goes.

Unless of course, Marwan decides that he is now coach!!!!!!