Not a great deal of thought gone into Sky's choice of mouthpiece when one of the topics is a discussion about a Palestinian RL Owner. He's always going to let his personal feelings cloud any rational thought, and you can see it when he's talking. What a bell-end.

After looking through the various prediction threads for this weekends games on some other forums I am shocked that hardly anyone is predicting a Salford Win. Leeds were poor last week against us and they had their main man playing for most of the game. We also let the off a couple of times and had it not been for the ball bouncing in their favour dramatically (Abletts Try) and us getting a poor decision for Carney's try we could have comforftably beaten them.
I think you will beat Leeds by at least 10 as you look like a completley different proposition now and If you do reach the playoffs which I'm selfishly hoping you don't then I think you could surprise a few of the glamour teams.

thanks
a very welcome post

Yes I read the book. It was an interesting read to say the least. Danny Lockwood obviously has issues with the way his home town has changed beyond recognition and was prepared to air his views. Very brave to take it to print in this day and age where the politically correct squad are waiting to dissect every viewpoint and comment. It's not entirely his take on a towns fracturing population, all the actual incidents in the book occurred and were reported in his local paper. The reasons why such events occur are open to debate, Lockwoods viewpoint is as valid as anyone else's.

Firstly congratulations on some good results, it seems like you've possibly turned the corner albeit late in the season now. Secondly I would say on current form and home advantage in mind that Salford are favorites for the tie. Leeds have been awful of late and are not playing well. Cas were great last time out and could have easily beaten us at Headingley. I'm sure Leeds will have their minds on the CC semi next week as well.

Locke is playing tonight confirmed by the doc on twitter! Be a good match up him and Hardaker probably the 2 best full backs in the competition!

Charlie will be at the Leeds game tonight , along with Andy Gregory , Andy loves Salford , im expecting a very good game and will be cheering the Red Devils on , if you see us give us a shout .

Sorry feeling a bit bitter tonight. Mainly because Evalds tackled in the air results in a Leeds scrum from which they score whereas Hardaker tackled in the air results in penalty to Leeds. Also we score from forward pass and its disallowed whereas Leeds score from forward pass and its 6 points. Silverwood mam of the match.

Please, that Evalds tackle in the air claim is laughable. Salford played very well tonight just to rule out any 'Leeds bias'...., Silverwood also gave you one last sniff with 60 secs to go with Sutcliffe apparently knocking on even though it was a clear strip.

I've seen plenty of games on Sky when the ref could be questioned, tonight wasn't one of them.

Ah the small club mentality! how about the ball steal that goes forward by Salford and then picked up by an off side Salford player that resulted in a scrum to salford????? That gave you a chance to win the game?

Which Leeds try came off of a forward pass? And even the most foolish fan wouldn't clame Ablett tackled the kid who dropped the bomb.

Salford had their fair share of 50/50's you need to get your blinkers off.

No blinkers here. Leeds not as good as I've seen in previous years, Salford much better. Don't care about refs decisions, just want to see my side improve week on week. A touch more professionalism and we win that game, hopefully that will come. Top 4 consistency is just a dream for us, but I reckon we're a step closer.

Spot on. We've made progress in the last month and tonight again gives me optimism for the future. We had lots of half breaks, credit to Leeds for the way they scrambled in defence but more composure and we would have won tonight.

All ifs and buts....All supporters generally only remember the decisions that went against them.

As a leeds supporter I would say you indeed have much more to look forward to. Salford looked competitive in all areas of the field and the team is obviously developing into [ia team[/i with a degree of collective pace and skills - the key to Leeds' recent success.

It is good for the game to have the likes of Castleford and hopefully now Salford challenging the 'elite'. I believe Salford's turn will come. 2015 will be a very interesting year.

Leeds were sharper when required tonight, stepped up as and when required.

That is the component we are missing at the minute. Unfortunately this only comes with experience, and is something we will have to develop over the coming seasons.

On the bright side, even with a defeat at Wigan (which I expect), making the top 8 is still on if results go our way! The other teams have much tougher run ins!

Very well put mate, you played really well tonight but the old heads at Leeds knew how to close it down. Fages must have been close for your MOM and Evalds did well to come back from the early mistake. Hope they don't get their noses pushed out next year with Locke and Dobbo being first choices.