to be fair the willows does generate a far better atmosphere than belle vue! even though both grounds are not up to standard.

think we just need to get up to super league speed,this first few games are the tough ones where we have to learn our lessons.just a very poor first half and one i hope we learn from before next week which is a winnable game if we play for the eighty.

there really was no atmosphere even a comment on the radio from one of wakey's fans.

we gave away too many penalties in the first half to be in the game.

better performance in the second half some positives to take away after our first super league game proper.

thats right its a learning curve,these are proper super league games now against experience unlike celtic.fair play to wakey,there a very underated side,beat us with some to spare and with some key players out injured.

seconed, the willows is just as bad.

why do people bite as soon as somebody mentions there stadium lets be honest we both need new 1s.lets get back to the game can somebody from salford let us know what went wrong today.

first half pretty much everything!no punch up front and on defence very hesitant and struggled with kick throughs,2nd half better but wakey took foot off gas,very poor and hope for better at cas.

Wakefield started really really and defensively looked solid. Granted our start was helped with some stupid penalties and Wakey's first try was a knock on from Tony Martin.

Grix got injured just before halve time which lessoned Wakefield's attack but fair play Salford tightened up in defence and had alot of the ball without ever really looking frightening. You got a fair few repeat set's but were unable to really capatilise on your second halve possession, whether that was down to goo Wakefield defence or a lack of ideas from Salford is something to be argued but you gave yourself too much to do too early.

LeuLeui (sp), played well with some good offloads and Myler tried to create gaps but i'd say alot of your lads struggled with the pace of the game.

No invention in the first half, unprepared to move the ball anywhere other than to the first man.

I think possibly 4 of Wakefield's 6 tries came from pretty much exactly the same play with the grubber into the corner, yet we failed to defend it every time.

2nd half was better, we threw the ball about a bit more and offloaded more frequently but we're still too slow in our passing - Wakefield's sliding defence took care of us easily whenever we spread the ball wide because we can't get it out quick enough. The game was possibly in reach when we had 3 straight sets of six on their line but we just weren't creative enough and they looked comfortable in defence.

Cashmere looked our best player for me.

I see that informative and constructive RL debating is back now the season has started. Great stuff

Salford very poor 1st half.Forwards who looked so good last week had no go-forward at all,poor kicking game and nothing on attack,no dummy-runners etc,just one-man stuff.Big improvement 2nd half when we bossed the game for long periods and looked a decent team.Defence in the 2nd half was very good apart from the two soft tries.
Although disappointed,lets not forget that Wakey won at Wigan and performed well at Leeds,and that we matched them for long periods in the 2nd half.Big difference was Brad Drew,he ran the show.You could argue that had he played for us we might have won.
Anyway on to Cas and lets play for the full 80 this time.

Far too many penalties conceded first half, don't know if some of that was down to Ian Smith being a bit harsh, but kicking game was very poor, credit to Wakefield who defended well and just seemed to be in the faces of Salford. I thought our big pack would grind them down, but they didn't and some silly mistakes, knock-ons, and bad decision making all added to a very disappointing afternoon out added to the total lack of atmosphere at Belle Vue, at times you could almost here a pin drop!!!
Just hoping for a big improvement next week against Cas

I remembered - you were garbage last year when we spanked you in the cup at your ground (resembles a 's paddock) and you were garbage again today. The Walrus has achieved consistency since he took over.

FWIW Salford worked hard today and never gave up, it will take the team a while to settle and you will improve as the season goes on.

Chins up and good luck.

some great offloads from your lads today, really had us on the backfoot, with only our great scrambling defence keeping you out! Think we definately have one of the best defences in teh league at the moment so against a weaker side, you could rip them apart (ala celtic). Plenty of positives