Today was the best any team has defended against us all season. What we've been very good at is sucking teams into the middle and moving the ball very quickly and accurately out wide.

Salford today held their width defensively very well, and scrambled when Sam did you up the middle. A really gritty performance from your players today. Phil Leului showed how to beat the three man tackle, great coaching from McRea.

What was the crowd? Looked nice and healthy

It's up to the players to play like that every week now. I thought you looked sharp defensively, but maybe lacked a little bit of direction in attack. Your sliding defence was pretty much spot on.

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other than losing to bratfud,i would like to know off some pie fans if they have had a tougher game so far this season!?our defence looked solid and thought we gave it em quite well up the middle to(think it was riddel who come off a bit worse for wear in one big hit!)like mentioned we just lack a few creative attacking ideas,kicking game has really improved over last few weeks(one bad attacking kicktoday i think),ima big fan of ste tyrer,but he is deffo the weakness in our backline which most oppostion keep finding!
overall keep it up red men!

If it hadn't been the busy easter week then that game would have been a blinder. Sadly both teams were shattered and loads of dropped ball made for a very scrappy game. Your long kicking game was superb and you're defence was very impressive. I expected the fatigue would lead to a try fest because of weak defences but it took its toll on attack instead.
I'm just pleased to have the hard fought win though.

Defended really well and your kicking game was superb. You will be in the top 10 if you play like that all season! No wooden spoons for Salford! Maybe even top 8.

Interesting coments from the Pie fans - personally I'm a bit skeptical about top 10, let alone top 8 - but (say it very quietly) - there has been a gradual turn-around with the team - the Hull & Hudds results weren't flukes, and today's performance was sound defensively even if we lacked enough ideas in attack - we need to see the Reds turning over a few sides around us in the table - Cas in a fortnight would do nicely please!

I agree. This time last season people were saying pretty much the same thing after wins against Hull, Warrington and Leeds.

It remains to be seen whether this year we can consistently put in this sort of effort and win games.

Nice to see opposition fans praising us for a change, and some nice comments. I thought a win would be hard today but the effort shown by the team is really showing atm. As long as that effort remains, regardless of finishing position or games played, we as fans will be more than happy.

We just need to refine the attack, which is a lot easier to tune than a leaky defense and we may have a surprising finish to the season.

To the Wigan fans. Constructive a credible comments from all of you.

Wigan did a great job on us today. Their effort in the ruck was superior to any team I've seen this year. Now, I know it can often appear that they are lying on and occasionally interfering at the play the ball but alas, I'm afraid they really are not. It's just thoroughly professional work. Making sure a 3rd man joins the tackling contingent and that they collectively ensure that A; the ball does not get released and B; that the player is on his back and or facing his own line.
Also, with three blokes in a slow tackle, it takes an extra second to sort it all out giving the rest of the defence that extra time to get organised and prepared.

Sure, the odd player deliberately left a hand in there, just frustrating the hell out of our forwards but hey, if Thierry isn't interested in this, which is ok by me, then why stop it? I sure wouldn't!
(Maybe we could learn a few tricks from the video of this game. No whinging, just observe and adapt Reds!)

We had to fight against this all game and looking at our players at the end of it, you could see how much it'd taken out of us. Totally wiped-out.

A very good effort from Salford but I reckon we've plenty to work on. Especially in 'arm-wrestle rugby league'.

Once again, well done Wigan!

Well played by Salford today, i was very impressed by the defence especially. If you keep playing like that you will be in very good shape. Ive seen at least 3 or 4 teams a lot worse than you this season and top 10 is within your reach imo.

Good luck for rest of the season.

Some magnanimous posts indeed from the Pies and thanks for those especially as we have to read the bile from our regular doomsters `neil` & `smithy` on a weekly basis.

We saw glimpses of what the fans wanted in attack today especially just prior to the Gibson try. In the crossfield move - at last - the forwards were pi$$ed off and with them out of the way quick hands saw the ball whipped across the line. Great stuff and that is the type of stuff we want to see as I have said repeatedly our backs this year are the best we have had for many years so PLEASE Mr McCrae USE them to OUR advantage. We could worry a few sides on firmer ground but 5 drives and a kick has to change.