I agree, a lot better performance looking more like a TEAM

Can anyone see an improvement in our attack since bringing in an attacking coach who people on here rave about? I'm happy for us to give Longy a go in some capacity to help him rebuild his career, but I'm not sure he's the guru he's made out to be on this front.

Trouble is, a coach can teach them and tell them how to perform certain moves. Practice them, refine them. But he has no control over major malfunctions during a game. It's up to the players to be better organised and execute with more professionalism than they are doing.

That's a classic comment,tell me where on the pitch their was any improvement last night....Salford were awful all over the park.

We spent large periods of the first half camped in Wigan territory without troubling the scoreboard, before conceding 25 points in the last 41 minutes of the game. If this is seen as improvement then God help us.

I've got to say, I think one of your biggest reasons for not troubling the score board was Chase. I honestly believe he is extremely overrated. He can do amazing things with the ball in hand, and his work for the Salford try was excellent, but that is no good if the rest of the match he is awful, throwing bad passes and trying to do these tricks and skills that only come off once or twice a match.

I really want you guys to succeed, because I like seeing more good teams in the league, and I do believe you will get there.
If you look at sport, any team that invests big money usually takes a year or two to click.

I do believe that you would benefit greatly from getting Sneyd back if at all possible.

I've had the same thoughts myself recently.

Chase is undeniably world-class when he's having a good one. Trouble is, he doesn't have that many, at least not in a Salford shirt yet. I'm not sure I'd be happy if I was MK. I don't think he's getting enough bang for his buck at the moment.

so when vid ref Thaler awarded a a penalty to Salford for ball ripping when Ashurst was over wigans line ...?

I left the game last night majorly disappointed, yet again. Before the game I was one of a few who thought we would trouble Wigan and in all fairness we should have done. I felt Harris had the tactics spot on, our kicking game started better than it has been all season, we were making yards and then when it came to having the ball in their final third we panicked, lost confidence and the unforced errors all came back. With the amount of ball we had in the first 25 minutes, we should have registered points. I cant work out what the problem is, but one thing is for certain we seem to be forcing it too often when a better option would be to either take the tackle on their line, or put a grubber in and force a repeat set. We seem incapable of building any genuine pressure and rush our attacks.

General defence I saw improvements, we were forcing them back, turning them over and working hard. However defending our line was dreadful yet again. Everytime Widnes got in our 10 they scored got over the white wash last week and Wigan did the same.

Forwards were fantastic again, let down by the backs again. Disappointing to see us picked up injuries to both our centres – where does this leave us? This season just keeps going from bad to worse.

Pretty sure the ref can only give a penalty try for foul play (e.g. high tackle, knees in the tackle) or pulling a player back/tackling a player without the ball.

Not so - From the rules of the game:

Penalty try: The Referee may award a penalty try if, in his
opinion, a try would have been scored but for the
unfair play of the defending team. A penalty try is
awarded between the goal posts irrespective of
where the offence occurred.

All that's needed is unfair play which ripping out clearly is - on reflection I think we wuz robbed!

I have only just had chance to watch the game due to working last night.

I actually thought we looked more structured in the first half and think we were a bit unlucky in places - if the game wasn't on sky our first disallowed try would have been given and maybe that would've helped us kick on and build some confidence, but it was not to be.

It is worrying that we had so much possession and came away with nothing in the first half but I think major credit has to be given to the way the Wigan team defended. You could see how much they wanted to prove everyone wrong and keep us out at all costs. I feel all the teams who play us this year are raising their game against our so-called "superstars" (the Doc hasn't helped this).

There is no chance of us being able to defend our flanks until we have some genuine pace in the backs. As soon as any quick winger or centre gets a small gap they are away and under the sticks! Hopefully the new arrivals for next season will remedy this.

As depressing as it is, I think we need to target specific games to help us stay away from a relegation fight. I can't see us getting anything from Saints next week so the Bradford game is really important. If we lose that I really fear for what could happen!

Still excited for the future of the club, we just need to keep supporting them and keep the faith. God knows I've seen much worse in the past!

Thinking back again to the game last night. - we've said numerous times this year about how much we seriously lack pace out wide and that was underlined in the last 10 minutes. Danny Williams made a break that was almost a carbon copy of the one Burgess made at the end of the game. Burgess scored with ease once he was clear, Williams was caught after about 15 or so metres. Looking forward to having a bit of pace in the side next year with the likes of Locke and BJB