Cas won 7 games and drew 1, but we had to wait to round 5 before we managed a win, and then brought a few players in (mainly forwards) as the season went on. Think one of your main problems at moment is a lack of confidence, people say winning becomes an habit but i think losing does too.

The phrase ( you don't become a bad coach over night ) was used before K H was sacked...he had just been given a 3 year contract McRae has less than 2 years left.....personally, I'd have stuck with K H as his demise was injury related ( we were decimated ) S m/c is just a bad coach

Excellent post. I know that McRae is seen by some as a top coach and I have to be honest, I hoped for the best but I feel that Karl Harrison did a far better job with the level of players we always seem to have. Saints and Hull had a good team littered with good playes we are average at best IMHO. Harrison and Lowes got more out of them until several of them decided to stop playing as a team .... oh that sounds familiar.... It has to do with some ingrained culture somewhere. I have no answers and am as perplexed as most of us are but we have made no progress for years. The last Relegation year was bad, I still think the NL1 year was alarmingly average, despite the smokescreen of winning all that was on offer. This season has been dreadful. Last season Cas lost a lot of their games but were largely competitive and used many of their younger players. I expected a bottom three finish this year and very few wins but this has all but curtailed my 45 year love of our Club. I have no idea what is going on anymore at Salford and, frankly, I am getting tired with it all?

*Runs for cover*

our club cant even spell the word team at the moment they look as though they dont know wot each other is doing or what to do when they get the ball mcrae's coaching has to be in question because of all the talking he has done on the tv he says he nows what they need to do so why aren't they doing it I even saw him in the shed on friday watching the reserves match with some of the team has it come down to seeing it from our point of view all ready

McRae gets another vote of confidence here www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... __goulding the most interesting part of this article IMHO is, "Karl Harrison, who made way for McRae, is worried by Reds' recent results. "It really does hurt me to see Salford losing heavily," he said. "I just wonder if the spirit that we worked so hard to build there is being eroded." "We put structures in place, but I feel everything we put together could be being lost and that's sad."

McRae gets another vote of confidence here www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... __goulding the most interesting part of this article IMHO is, "Karl Harrison, who made way for McRae, is worried by Reds' recent results. "It really does hurt me to see Salford losing heavily," he said. "I just wonder if the spirit that we worked so hard to build there is being eroded." "We put structures in place, but I feel everything we put together could be being lost and that's sad."

McRae gets another vote of confidence here www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... __goulding the most interesting part of this article IMHO is, "Karl Harrison, who made way for McRae, is worried by Reds' recent results. "It really does hurt me to see Salford losing heavily," he said. "I just wonder if the spirit that we worked so hard to build there is being eroded." "We put structures in place, but I feel everything we put together could be being lost and that's sad."

McRae gets another vote of confidence here www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... __goulding the most interesting part of this article IMHO is, "Karl Harrison, who made way for McRae, is worried by Reds' recent results. "It really does hurt me to see Salford losing heavily," he said. "I just wonder if the spirit that we worked so hard to build there is being eroded." "We put structures in place, but I feel everything we put together could be being lost and that's sad."

I agree with you BigPev about Harrison's statements - very telling and on the money IMHO. There is NO spirit visible to those of us watching the players (I find it hard to refer to them as a team at present).
Goulding, in support of Mr McRae states that, "His ability to identify weaknesses in the opposition ranks is second to none." But this is more akin to his Sky role as a game assessor though, where, as most of us agree, he is a good talker in terms of the game and tactics in general. What I want him to do is identify the obvious weaknesses in our game and work on them.

Maybe that's the problem, he has only had to concentrate on the other team as his own had few failings.

I don't think you are that far off the truth RW.

Last season 7 wins, 1 draw. 2006 9 wins one draw.

Regarding Cas last year; didn't they beat Leeds and Saints in March and April? I think this tells you that Cas were miles ahead of us at the same time last season.

Yet I am still convinced our squad has the potential to match or beat the Tigers' results last year. Obviously something is very wrong in our camp.

They (Leeds) are more than likely to know about what went on in Florida? Perhaps, as you suggest, that was just them keeping a professional distance?