Strikes me that if McCrae goes and is replaced with a new coach, then unless the new man has carte blanche to change the whole management structure nothing much will change. It's been said on other posts that the same thing has happened with Andy Greg and Karl Harrison - so it's not JUST Sean McCrae - there is something fundamentally wrong - such a pity it wasn't sorted out pre-season when the player recruitment was happening.

It would seem pretty clear though, that we've started this season exactly where we left off last - there were also enough warnings in the pre-season games, beaten by Leigh, slaughtered by HKR. Unprofessional behaviour, getting players banned for happenings in friendlies just says there isn't a strong enough management in place.

In the past I've not been one to call for the manager's head - after today I think my opinion is swinging around - if we want to make this season into something memorable there must be some action - Mr Wilkinson - PLEASE!

As the Leigh game is part of the topic, doesn't it strike you as strange that our best player against Leigh had only just arrived a few days earlier!!!!

Lets be honest with ourselves, pains me to say it but Wilky wont get rid of McRae and McRae wont walk. Were in for a long season!!!!!!

Go on the BBC Sport website and read Macrae's after game comments - The guy has no idea, HE'S THE ONE WHO'S EMBARASSING!

To give you an example of how badly unprepared our team is you only have to look at the drop out when the Crusaders made the short kick and regathered the ball. This is a play they made a few times last year. It just proves beyond doubt that McRae and the other coaches aren't doing their jobs thoughrally. A good coach would have knowledge of this and be telling the players before the game about it. At this level it just isn't good enough. If they can't pick up on a detail like this what hope is there?

Mcrae says hes not in the mood yet to speak to Godwyn about the sending off jeez he should be right in his face for it

It isn't about the chairman being too "nice" to sack him, it's that we cannot afford to sack him. How many people on the coaching staff?
Mistake was made by giving such a long contract to a mate of Simms.

The only option for the club is to engineer a resignation, but my guess is that McRea is hard faced and will cling on until the end.

Please Salford, don't implode, i've seen it too often, and frankly i'm bored of it.

I really hope a long season won't be our LAST season.

Tactically naive and very predictable. It's really not good enough for Super League.

One of the Sky commentators hit the nail on the head today.

He said atleast Salford can be proud of one thing (before Godwin's little "incident" that is) they've been a clean and fair team giving away very few penalties.

That to me just shows that there's no hunger or passion, which stems from the poor coaching. We just seem to be too tame and give the opposition way too much respect. All other teams are in your face and pushing for mistakes, we sit back and watch with puppy dog eyes. Mr Wilkinson is a charming, polite person but if that's how the team come across we'll never get anywhere.

We need now a coach with a fierce bite and some attitude to push our lads and make other teams scared of us. Without this edge they'll be even more tonkings coming our way.

Haven't we got one place untaken in the squad? That could help go towards it.

There's no way McRae will walk. If JW and co haven't got the balls to sack him say hello to another disappointing season and goodbye to a franchise place.

AS I SAID BEFORE IF MCRAE WENT,BUT I DON'T THINK FOR ONE SECOND HE WILL,NO COACH WORTH HIS SALT
WOULD COME IN IF SIMMS WAS THERE,AND HE IS FIREPROOF.CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME,ARE WE THE ONLY CLUB
WITH A FOOTBALL MANAGER,

Maybe it was an over-reaction to being caned by the refs in the friendlies? Alibert was never going to be as picky as Child so we could have pushed it a bit more but sometimes we can't win. given that they scored off pretty much every penalty i don't think giving more of them away would have been a good thing

People keep saying he won't get sacked because we can't afford to pay him off.

Isn't this the last year of his contract though?

Surely Wilky and co can afford to pay off the last 10 months off his contract. If not then either he's earning a fortune or the club's skint.

There look to be big problems with your lot, from a coach who is clearly past it and a Football Director (who does what exactly?) who both appear bomb-proof.

I don't particularly rate a good number of your signings either, I think a new coach would get a lot more out of them than McRae though.