The 1st half was very tight, a real arm-wrestle for the forwards which I thought you didn't capitalize on since we had Hansen playing prop.

The 2nd half, Salford just didn't control the ball well at all, giving us far too much ball in your half.

for me it was a tight first half, with Wigans first trycoming from a very blatant forward paas, and I think we scored the best try of the night, we had a chance early in the second when Ratchford kicked through and after a game of ping pong behind the Wigan line the French prat made a massive error in awarding the drop out when it should have been a Red penalty for Wigan offside.
We should have kicked when we did get a pen this would have put us 2 behind, we were very flat on attack wigan were lying deep and running onto the passes on an angle with dummy runners who were just within the rules.
We were second best on the night but some very poor decisions, we can knock on facing our line wigan can't and pulled up for a forward pass which even the Wigan fans missed rank as some outstanding decs.

Our passing was laboured, but the coaching genius, might have a plan that the CC don't matter so have a practice match and then next week chance the plan and win

We put a lot of effort in but it was all very laboured. Wigan deserved to win because they played better and their forwards were better. Our Props wilted. Stapo seemed to be back too early? Cashmere now seems not to offload or we are not backing the possibility up. I thought Jewitt played hard. Our kicking was poor and we just didn't seem to get going.
The Referee IMHO made a lot of errors and was very poor. I think the scoreline flattered Wigan but they deserved to win still.

It's 9 weeks to the semi-final.

Alker is suffering from many years of injuries and from spending a career defending. He has a lot of very obvious offensive weaknesses but that's as a result of never being able to develop his skills due to defensive comments. Whilst I think it's great Adamson is putting in a big effort in defence I worry he will end up the same as Alker ... a promising player limited by having to carry a team.

This should be the last year at Salford for Alker for me, he is clearly struggling. The sooner Myler is ready to take over the captaincy the better.



I'd disagree; I thought we were very poor defensively. We didn't move up anywhere near quick enough and the only time we got even remotely close to their kicker was when Jewitt cleaned out Tomkins. That said there was no lack of effort.



Any decision against Wigan is the worst decision ever ever ever in the history of sport, humanity, space and time blah blah blah ...



Rubbish. Myler was quiet because his forwards didn't build any sort of a platform him. Conversely Tomkins had a real platform to work from but he was very predictable. I set my watch by the cut out ball on the right hand in the first half. He's only 18 (or whatever) though so I don't want to sound too critical.

My points:

* I've only seem about half our games this year but I remain underwhelmed by Robbie Paul's contribution on the pitch.
* Mark Henry is not a winger and is being stifled out there.
* Wilshere's effort on Hock for the first try was terrible. He needs to learn to put his body on the line once in a while.
* Both sides are very very average and last night doesn't change the fact that Saints will win the trophy this year. However given that Wigan spend half a million more than us a year we showed well.
* Halibut or whatever his name is was awful. He needs to re-read the definition of a knock-on (four occasions when he called that wrong, three for us one for Wigan), needs to remember to put his hand up to signal the fifth (!) and to make a decision and stick to it (he called a forward pass early on after having waved play-on and then his linesman signalled).

there we are a Sky Fed Super league fan

The effort was there, we tried but we came out of the arm wrestle to early and paniced, we dropped to much ball, conceeded too many penalies and field position allowing wigan chances which they convered.

Wigan were not a million miles away from us just our bottle went 1st, why i dont know im sure the players will learn from this and it will improve them.
Clapped them off at the end to celebrate our cup run not yesterdays performance as i feel we beat ourselves.

Myler on Pat Richards wing lost us the game, simple as. Whoever made the decision to put our smallest player outwide against their biggest wants a slap.

Alker/Paul had no impact on the game and never got the forwards going. To many times our forwards ran onto the ball standing still.

Not good enough.

I think that's a tad harsh - I thought he was excellent last week against Bradford.

And at huddersfield - simple fact - JJB, Wigan in the Cup, they were just too good for us!!