Holdsworth is a class act, and a player that I would be making a big effort to keep at the club. If his way of trying to deal with defeat is to get off the pitch as soon as he can then I can live with that as long as he's putting the effort in on the park.

If You was holdsworth would you stay.

Absolutely spot on Iain.
Perhaps DH is that deflated after such a loss, he just wants to get away. I can sort of understand that. He's a pro and they all have certain ways of dealing with the highs and lows.

Post-match appreciation of fans is a tricky one when we've been beated heavily - if the players trudge off, heads hung, or storm off in anger/frustration then they get criticised for not acknowledging the fans; if they come over to clap the crowd they get abuse and comments like "[iCheeky gets, coming over to us, expecting us to clap them after that[/i?!"

As a fan, I'm not sure which one I prefer. Equally, I don't really care to be honest. Whether a player comes over to clap at me after a game is definitely NOT a factor that I would consider when deciding whether I thought he deserved a new contract or not?!

So he's a competitive guy. He obviously hates losing. It's a pity a lot of other players don't have the same attitude.

Chances of him staying at Salford? Very little, unfortunately.

Its not so much that Holdsworth didn't come over to clap the fans that got on my goat. Its the fact that the team all got in a huddle at the end of the game and Holdsworth was the only player not in it. Ok we lost and lost badly and even though things are crap at the moment seeing one player (Our best player as well) just walk away from the rest of the team is really really worrying.

The Ozzies are bred that winning is the only way, a huge loss like that would have probably been a first for Holdsworth and something he was embarrased and angry about.
Getting in a huddle with a load of players he probably felt did not play to a standard he expects would have been the last thing on his mind.

He'll get used to it with us...

for what i saw ratchford was only putting any effort at the end and he asnt got a contract nxt year??

Questions on a postcard to Shaun McRae SRLFC the Willows

and i'm sure there will be a lot more without contracts next season as well.

How many players are out of contract at the end of the season, and how many of them will want to sign a new contract or who would we want to stay, nearly nobody to be honest I doubt we'll even have a team next season, we'll just be loaning a load of players and buying players from the lower leagues :\

Malcolm Alker
Karl Fitzpatrick
Ashley Gibson
Mark Henry
Daniel Holdworth
Lee Jewitt
Phillip Leuluai
Stuart Littler
Dean McGilvray
Ian Sibbit
Adam Sidlow
Jeremy Smith
Marc Sneyd
Luke Swain
Willie Talau
Ben Wood

Plus Tyrer and M.Smith on loan

Out of that lot I'd only keep Fitzpatrick (On this seasons form), Gibson, Henry (Probably Won't want to renew can't really blame him), Holdsworth (Miles too good for us, won't be here much longer), Swain ( Same as Holdsworth), Sidlow, Jewitt. That leaves us with a lot of work to do in the transfer department at the end of the year. Not looking good really is it?

And the counter side to that view (which I completely agree with) is, WHO in their right mind would want to come to us any more?

holdsworth going to huddersfield sorry but true

from the horses mouth?

ste nash - maybe .................... next year though as they are now fully capped.

Genuine question: as a talented player why would I want to stay with Salford right now?

My feelings precisely DR

Same reason that any player would want to stay at any club: [size=150£ £ £ £ £[/size

Or in our case [size=40£ £ £ £ £[/size

Does anybody else wonder that if the out of contract players sign for new clubs before the end of the season that we will hardly have a team at the end of the season because Mcrae tends not to play players if there leaving

Why would Huddersfield sign another halfback?

They have Brown, Robinson, Brough plus a couple of kids in the academy about to step up.

Brown to Cronulla, Robinson is a hooker these days.

When did you last hear a chant for Holdsworth? Or for Ratchford? Or for anyone except the abuse aimed at the coach?

How do they know they are being supported?

Time to out shout the endless critics methinks.