It’s the Widnes game which has disappointed me the most. I genuinely felt 3 wins from 4 games was realistic and for me we should be on 6 points now. We went in at half-time 12-8 up, but capitulated yet again in the second half (as we did against Wakefield and St Helens) to gift Widnes the win.

Luckily I agree with you about the injuries and the team gelling, the sooner they return the better.

Bloody hell!! You lot still going on about last Thursdays defeat??

Accept it. You were second best on the night. You lost to a better team and a far bigger club.

There's plenty of chances to make those 2 points up between now and September.

Think also a telling factor in what looks like a weakness in the second half is that when you lose players mid game to injury like we have been doing you also then have less options with your interchange.

Pretty certain in the first game Chase would have stayed on most (if not all) of the game, at Widnes Rapira would have played more of a part, Hock would have stayed on till the death at Saints and likewise S'au at Widnes.

why pick on howarth?
most coaches with the full salary cap to spend would spend most of it on building a strong spine to the team of which the hooker is one of the most important components. you seem to have gone for cheap options at full back and hooker and wasted the money on high profile injury prone has beens else where in the team. very good high profile signings for making an impression at the ridiculous pre season launch but some one must be feeling silly now the old men are predictably coming up short. well predictable to every one but the man with the cheque book.

What do you know about Jake Mullaney that makes you feel he is a "cheap option"? He's been one of the better signings do far.

As for the injury prone has-beens, the current injury list is:
Junior Sa'u (age 26)
Francis Meli (age 34)
Rangi Chase (age 27)
Gareth Hock (age 30)
Darrell Griffin (age 32)
Steve Rapira (age 25)

Now, with the exception of Francis Meli (maybe Darrell Griffin, although 32 isn't particularly old for a prop), which of the above would you class as has-beens?

You obviously havent watched much of Salford this season have you? Howarth has been absolutely awful, he has never been a hooker in his life (or at least until he joined Salford) as far as I know he played his junior RL as a loose forward. His distribution from dummy half is slow, he gives the opposition defeence at least 2 metres more than they should be getting and doesnt have the brain required to play at 9. Rarely does he spot a flagging tackler and run at him, infact I bet you can count on one hand the amount of times the lad has scooted from dummy half in the last 4 games.

As for the cheap option at full back, I cant imagine Mullaney was cheap considering his pedigree. He's also been one of the better signings and looks very lively in attack.

Which our of new "has been" signings have been injured yet then? Chase isnt a has been, Hock isnt a has been, Griffin isnt a has been, The only over 30 injury we have had this far is Meli as far as I can remember.

Next time you come on here trying to make a point, know a little bit about the subject before hand.

I'm really impressed with how many morons from other clubs we seem to be attracting to the site compared to other years. Obviously doing something right.

my whole point beeing, why didn't you spend some on a good hooker whose distribution is good.

I'm more impressed how many people this troll is catching with his pish poor efforts.

Just more reason to hope Cas implode and go through the trap door.

This doesn't get any less mad the more you post it.

Same reason you didn't spend money on an English teacherhave[/i got exactly the hooker you describe. Unfortunately, we've sent him on loan to Sheffield.

He needs to put the whole of Castleford (and Greg Johnson) on his foe list and be done with it.

Was Michigan Red the only Salford fan not jumping up and down when Johnson went the full length?

He'd be the one I saw reading Dostoevsky then - Crime & Punishment I think.

No relevance to the topic or conversation in hand.

If it really matters to you in your hum drum life then I cheared the shirt not the man, things in my private family life make my dislike of the signing of Johnson very valid, feel yourself lucky you have not experienced something like that to taint your judgement of someone.