Possibly the worst game I've seen this season from two poor sides. We were outdone by their forwards and with a smart kicking game, that was all they needed to run out as deserved winners.

We made hardly any metres from our own guys up front. Their defence was poor out wide though and when we finally figured out that one man rugby wasn't going to work and spread the ball, we looked like we were going to make a line break every time we moved it wide. Disappointing as if this tie was about 2 weeks earlier we probably would have taken them apart.

Warrington in Edinburgh next then...

Most disappointed I've been this season - getting beaten by the Pies (or more accurately Pat Richards!) after putting in a good defensive performance I can live with, but today was dire - looked like no-one actually wanted to be there. Like others have said, having pulled back a try right on half time (very unlike us!!) you expected us to come out and really kick on at the start of the second half - but nothing.
Sorry Reds that was dreadful

Salford very poor.....................yet couldnt beat the worst Castleford side I have seen in 45 years spectating. Axe looming surely.

As for Malcolm. Hes been a great servant and still tackles his heart out but from dummy half he is not Championship 1 class yet they keep him on for 60 minutes dictating our turgid and boring one man rugby tactics. Matty came on and sparked things up but he should have been on after 20 mins.

LuLu & Stuart Littler should be sent out on loan immediately - lets see the kids come in please and show what they can do. No Relegation threat so its barmy keeping the old `uns in week in week out.

As for Shaun Mc. I am just so fed up with his ultra predictable tactics. We are supposed to be in the 'Entertainment' business and for the first time in years have some talent in the backs - Holdsworth, Matty, Ratch, Gibson, Tyrer etc., yet SMc still feels 5 drives and a kick is the way to go. Surely we are better than that and unless swift changes are made I feel for the club and its future.

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Simplly dreadful.

We need to beat Warrington or go out in style utilising the backs.

I agree with all said above, why do we persist in the one man rugby up the middle! They were so weak out wide & on the rare occasions we moved the ball wide we hurt them.
Poor tactics from a team who were nearly as bad as us, we deserved nothing & got nothing apart from getting a good soaking for our troubles at the start of the match.
Not good enough tactically, again no plan B when going wrong.

i took my kids along today and was more entertained watching them falling off the bucking bronco!!
so so so boring ,we actualy had a better turnout then i thought we would have took,everyone was nealry nodding off though.macrae is obcessed with percentage rugby!whats the point in having backs?we might as well put a team outwith 13 forwards to charge (or walk 4 yards)every set up the middle of the park!!!...come on macrae lets change things around a bit,and at least give some other young local lads at theclub there chance!!!...anyone know how reserves/academy got on before hand?

Keep taking the tablets lad!

Cas won that one 48-12

sorry

"Keep taking the tablets lad!"

nah ... I don't live in the roundabout between Salford/Manchester and Scouseland. Pretentious a$$es thought they could pretend to be the Cheshire set but ended up as Runcorn over-spill.

We will cream you next week,enough said.(please salford fans no fighting between yourselves after the game this time!).

Sheesh, not only has Rucorn New Town been forgotten but also Geography .... Boddingtons is the cream of Manchester. Salford (a city, young townie) is not Manchester.

We tend to sup another Manc brew called Holts.

it is all about completing are sets under mcrea

Haha it worked for us.
I came from Manchester for this game and wondered why after an hour. 2 poor teams slugging it out with little skill. The only plus side from my point of view was the win, you lot whom travelled must be scathing.

Think back to the Hul & Huddersfield wins - we DID complete our sets, DID gain field position, DID put ourselves in positions to score.

Like Mr McRea or not, he's spot on with that, if you don't have a good completion rate you don't win Rugby League games!!!

As already indicated it was a woeful game. Did we actually complete any sets of 6? Did we kick for good field position? Did we maintain any kind of pressure? It was a severly inept display against a team we had a great chance of beating. I'm sure we'll hear that the travelling from the previous weekend took it out of them. Which will be a sorry excuse.

On a side note I wasn't really paying attention but did most of the team walk off without coming over to clap the fans? I've noticed over the past few weeks that Holdsworth inparticular very rarely comes to give us applause. I wonder if the early season booing has soured his views on us?

perhaps Clapping is too hard to do and they may miss the other hand and look very stupid.

We had fans there?

how the hell can you clap a team off the pitch when they put in a performance like that crap yesterday they wanted booting up the back sides off the pitch.......no commetment ....no passion......no game plan..... do i go on, We went in at half time 10-6 down what the hell does Mr Motivater say to them,,,,,carry on playing clueless rugby lads I am not changing anything just complete you sets....What a load of bull, Sorry but that was the worse game of professional rugby i have ever seen in over the 28 years..... it was that bad I will not be going to another away game until I see more commitment from the team and manager, why should I waste my good earned money and time on a team who does not care how they play and a clueless manager who is full of S--t...... And people saying that it was two poor team yesterday one of the teams scored 30 points so which team is poor then.

As a cas fan who many of you know I attend the Willows quite a lot, I think your being harsh on Salfords effort.

Yes, it was a very poor game indeed and both sides are well of the pace for Super League.

BUT, Cas completed 96% in the second half and forced about 5 drop outs. Now, we didnt pass the ball and thats why we didnt drop it, but it meant we had the lions share of possession and theres little Salford could do about it.

That was Cas stiffling Salford, not a lack of effort from you guys. I thought they really dug in and Ray Cashmere and Ryan Boyle were the best props on the field.

Stick with your lads, we know how you feel too, but your team needs you guys just like ours needs us right now. And Ill help cheer you on at The Willows as much as I can!

my gripe is when i read this bull in paers bout were all together and training really well then produce that garbage!id rather they put up or shut up!i think most fans are now past the point of going to away matches and watching sides that are in and around us in the league turning us over!its so frustrating when you see how well we can perform,hull,huddersfield,even wigan in defeat,anyway,rant over!

Could not go due to being stuck abroad due to the volcano.
I had planned to be there, but now after reading the comments I am glad I was elsewhere.
People are starting to realise now that Alker and McRae are not the way forward and never will be.
I would guess two more wins this year tops and that is if we are lucky.
Change needed please Mr Chairman

Back to back 30's against two of the leagues worst performing sides, Catalan who have been getting hammered against all and sundry and Cas losing 5 from 6 home games including being dumped from the cup by an NL1 side says all you need to know about our shower and no wonder oddschecker have us as odds on for the wooden one.

Maybe the club could let us know which games they can be bothered competing in ?

Sometimes it does feel that the team "decide" to play or not to play. As you say it would be useful if they could let us know their decision beforehand so we can decide not to travel. Here's a suggestion, if the players let us know in advance that they will not be putting in much effort, all the fans that were going to travel can put their travel costs and entrance money into a kitty and we can use this to start buying breezeblock to build a new stadium - what odds we would get it built before the club!