Great post mate. The 'fans' who do create this negativity are the ones who expect success, to win every game, and the spiral of negativity you mention starts as soon as this doesnt happen. The people who talk utter tripe you should ignore but if there is a considerable amount of them maybe you cant Its just a shame a great supporter like yourself is being made to feel this way by those who dont share the same passion and love for your club

It's still like that where I stand. Albeit with a bit of gallows humour thrown in there for good measure sometimes.

The match experience is often only as good as you make it. Separating the dross on the pitch with what happens off it quite often helps.

I stopped going in the shed about three seasons ago. I got sick of being surrounded my mindless young nobs. Having retreated to a corner at the Willows end, I enjoy chatting about the game with whoever happens to be nearby and still manage to celebrate each rare victory with enthusiasm. It's a shame, but I've also found that I have started to avoid certain elements of our supporters on the many away games I attend. I do feel that our support in general has lost it's former sense of humour and been replaced by a misappropriate sense of grandeur that results in bitterness when it fails to materialse.

Sean Gleeson has made the 19-man squad but no Jewitt again?
Salford: Patten, Broughton, Henry, Nero, Gibson, Ratchford, Holdsworth, Cashmere, Godwin, Boyle, Neal, L. Adamson, Wild, Smith, Sneyd, Parker, Sidlow, Spencer, Gleeson.

Hull KR: Cockayne, Galea, Green, Fisher, Clinton, Hall, Hodgson, Netherton, Webster, Welham, Colbon, Watts, Fox, Lovegrove, Latus, Murrell, Wheeldon, Briscoe, Mason.

GET DOWN EARLY THIS WEEK AND WATCH OUR FUTURE STARS IN ACTION.....

[iFRIDAY 18-3-11

Valvoline Cup

Salford Citys Reds v Hull Kingston Rovers

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I am the same at away games utter embarassment is the best way to describe how i feel at some of the antics.
It is bad enough being shown up on the pitch without having to put up with it off it as well

What antics are these? presumably drunken fools making the true fans look bad

Just spotted that it appears Palea'aesina is missing as well, so now we're 3 props and 2 second rowers down!

Good opposition? I thought we were playing Hull KR?

I was referring to the losses your team has suffered at the hands of Leeds Wigan and Saints so jog on

Wouldn't worry to much about that one mate he is dreadful.

5 games in and you have just spotted that he's been missing, should have gone to Spec Savers

Listen all this about Feka, I fully understand but it's not totally his fault a lot of it is how we use him. When he was at Wigan he had Fielden and Coley playing almost 80 minutes every game, Feka was used not as a 20 minute spell prop like we want to but maybe just 5 - 10 minutes when Wigan were on top, the coach would judge the game and throw him on at the right times (roll on roll off substitutes will let you do that) . Now I'm sure we've all seen this and maybe commented that Feka is only ever on the park when we're under the cosh. On Friday we started like a house on fire and had plenty of pressure on them but Feka was sat on the bench, after the Cashmere v Webb incident which for a few of us changed the tide of the first half, Leeds started to put us under the pump and what did we do put Feka on, wrong time, wrong place.

I accept that Feka is far from perfect but I believe if used correctly he could be a decent addition to us, if we want to use him like Jewitt, Boyle, Neal or Parker (I'll leave Cashmere outta this!) then we've signed the wrong type of player, not his fault, the clubs!

I agree to a certain extent with what your saying, it was the clubs fault in the fact that we should never of got him hes not the type of player we needed, we need a player with more game time at the end of the day we are Salford were going to be under the cosh for a lot of games this season. Its hard to know when to bring fekka into the game we could bring him on when we are attacking and the next minute were on the back foot defending that's just Salford and why we should never have signed him a luxury player we cant afford to have.

At the end of the day he is still a professional rugby player and needs to learn how to defend some of the tackles he has missed this season are beyond a joke even when hes had the ball going forward hes not made any yardage weather that's to do with the way he receives the ball or not i don't know but id still expect a 20 stone brick house to make a few more meters going forward!