And after many years of failure, you're surprised ? ?

Where the hell did that assumption come from?

Have you never heard of a little thing called 'State of Origin' (SOO)? I'll not explain the whole thing, but it's like the champions league of our sport. In that, the standard is probably higher and more skillful than that at international level. Our new coach is currently an assistant for one of the two teams playing in SOO, the same team that has had its asses handed to it for roughly five years. Matt Parish wants honour his commitment and ensure he does his all to reverse that teams current slide.

So, as stated by the club, recruitment has been put on hold until SOO has finished. Although, it wouldn't surprise me if Steve Simms is already scouting potential recruits for next season.

On the whole Cashmere/Henry debate. I feel Big Ray is worth another year, probably two, Henry on the other hand? If he was English I'd be saying the club should definitely get him signed up. Except with overseas quotas the way they are, I'd say, see who else is available first.

I would certainly put hard cash that JAW & HC paid their own way.

My £50 against one of your UCP Tripe shops.

You do come out with some ill thought out comments.

Have you found anybody to take over the poisoned chalice of running Salford yet? No - thought not.

Wummeister general.

If we can't get a decent crowd for a potential winnable game after beating Wire. Then the problem is much more deeply routed than a sky game stopping a thousand people turning up!

I think the main problem is playing friday night I for one used to have a season ticket and now I can't purchase one because I work shifts and had weekends off. I feel this is one of the reasons for low gates. Travel also creates problems for away support as people can't always get chance to attend every night. Please salfor as a club look at this again. That is my opinion on this matter

I think the main problem is 30 years of languishing in the doldrums. No doubt the club historians can correct but since the second world war, we have only had a brief period when we were what could be consider a top team likely to challenge for honours. This was the Brian Snape era. When he injected, for the time, vast sums of money we were at the top table. After he stopped spending it too another 6-8 years for those players to finish their careers and by around 79-81 we were on the way down.

Such a long period has resulted in the lack of RL culture and tradition within Salford.

I left the Willows last Friday fairly upbeat :-

A) it was a great game closely contested.

B) we did lose the game , but only in the last ten minutes, not in the first ten minutes which had been the norm .

C) it took a brilliant piece to class play from their star act

It would have been fantastic had we made it 3 in a row , but win or not it still doesn't hide the fact that our season has been a marketing disaster with the inauspicious 1st half of the campaign.
and the drop off in crowds are a result,
Our new head coach won't be here until mid July
Franchises will be awarded on the 31st July.

some of the input on here is alarmist , lets face it the Salford public in the main has ignored it's RL club for a significant proportion of the 110years down weaste lane. and to me PV has had an inglorious task of guiding us over the past few months.
here's to the future under Matt Parish

Sick of hearing the "big one 3" being advertised on real radio ! when are we going to get a marketing department that can do something better than send text messages to people who are already season ticket holders advertising games ! ??

will be interesting to look at the attendance for this game and compare with last years, they are advertising everywhere Radio, TV and the Metro.

What is the big 1 3 anyway? the big 13 code or wigan win and go from 3 to 1? wigan lose and Huddersfield go to 1 and leave wigan in 3?

In there defence mate we do have a deal with rock radio which numerous people in work have commented on to me

Was it just me or did anyone else see an advert for the Wigan v Hudds game on ITV the other night, only just caught it at the end?

ITV? Good heavens no. Far too low-brow for my refined taste. No doubt you were just flicking through?!?!