Hello there chaps, just wondering what your thoughts are ahead of Fridays game Do you fancy your chances of a home win after a few losses? admittedly against good opposition! How have your new signings been playing? Im looking forward to making the trip over hopefully be a decent number of us and a good atmosphere Finally, any away friendly pubs near the ground with a decent atmosphere? cheers!

all our pubs are friendly hrk smithy,not getting to carried away about a home win,and dont get to excited about seeing some of our star signings in action!! they will either be in the nearest take way or at home nursing there in-growing toe nails and bouts of piles,all the best and enjoy your last trip to the willows!

I would like to think we will give you a good lesson in rugby league & send you packing with a miserable journey back home, but somehow I cannot see us doing so! Hope to see many of you guys over on Friday, you normally take over the Weaste pub two minutes from the ground.

nice to see your confidence is soaring and your mightily impressed with your signings Weaste pub it is, looking forward to friday already

See this is what happens when you allow buffoons an education

I'm not offended. I entirely agree. I've said it before, but this board is getting more and more like the Jeremy Kyle show. It reached it's zenith with Sluggate, when (supposedly) fully grown adults saw fit to spray puerile insults around. Very embarrassing for all involved, in my opinion.

In addition to socal constructionism, etc., motivated reasoning is something else people could check out on t'interweb.

I don't know I think there is still some good bouts of humour despite the surrounding misery. Ave it's continuing battle against drinking, watching the game and shouting abuse. Bobby's seriously misplace optimism.

We should bring back the confetti and bog rolls. I used to love aiming them at evil solly's head when we threw them lol.

I think one problem is that the shed is divided into to many fractions. Theres the young and restless who stand behind me. The nobbers below you lot. Then the turkey lot and then the other turkey lot outside the shed. I notice it more now since standing away from the turkey lot. I know that the nobbers and the young and restless tend to be the more abusive/ singsongs aimed at the opposition. However on many occasions if they start a Salford chant the turkey lot will start a different chant instead of joining in. It almost smacks of an elitism within the shed. There's no cohesiveness. Perhaps alot of this has to do with the oncoming of age and how you interpret things that you never really looked at that deeply before. Maybe the shed has always been the same, it just changes in your opinion, when really it's you changing.

Just wondering - who are "the Turkey lot"? There's about 4 of us who used to write a fanzine - surley we can't have much effect on the atmosphere. Or do you mean people who post on the Turkey (like you)? Or is an arbitary, made up, classification?

Perhaps he's referring to the Red Army (Istanbul branch).

Spot on post RP.

It is indeed a sad indictment on Society these days, that everyone demands things immediately, feels the need to blame, and are suddenly experts on everything because they have the internet. We support Salford because we foolishly tied our colours to the red mast and it should be our duty to ride out the storms that she goes through. It's all about the journey, and hopefully we will eventually see the shore before we feel the need to pass the red torch on to the next generation.

Let's not forget that it is just sport and entertainment for us. An often cruel and depressing entertainment at times, but the highs feel so much higher for that. We should enjoy the gamble we place every time we pay to watch the Reds. Passion can work positively or negatively and it's up to us to change that.

*Rousing orchestral score fades*

I thank you.

Abuse? Its hardly abuse is it....more like constructive criticism. I can't bare watching them sober if I did I'd more depressed than I already am, a few pre game whiskies and many pints of the black stuff is the only thing that keeps going on a Friday night/Sunday afternoon!!!

Yeah I just mean the group who I know through here who all stand together where I used to stand ( and still do -quite enjoyably- on occassions).