Anyone know who the you replacement hooker playing 35 was? looked more than capable to m.

Good to get a win.

Will raise confidence and lift moral around the club after last week.
Couldnt make it to teh game yesterday but from what i heard there was a lot of positives to take out of it and Feka sounds like he's put in a strong performance. Read he's weighed in at 113 kg this year compared to 130kg last year.

Looking forward to the season starting now..
not long to go.

I think it was Stuart Howarth . "A Trialist" scored a try , and according to the MEN , he is the only player who scored whose name im not familiar with

Still losers in my eyes. Halifax started the game very positive and looked by far the better side on 20 mins taking a 16-6 lead, there's no way we could afford to conceed 16 points in 20 mins against a superleague club. Feka was brought onto the field which changed SCR's attitude by some hard running. I must say Ryan Boyle looked well off the pace, he looked very sluggish and overweight, Feka and anderson played well, they were the standouts for me, smith played well from 30 minutes onwards. Second half Halifax didn't offer much going forward and was evident they had 3-4 first team players missing from their fixture with Keighley on boxing day. Very disappointed with the forwards definately not superleague class except for Feka and Anderson, i'll give credit where it's due regarding them two, although it was only Halifax, it should be expected.

Also very poor Salford turn out again in attendance, we was out numbered by Halifax. I see St helens have sold out for their fixture with widnes, puts things in perspective i suppose.

I thought the game changed when Palea'aseena and Sidlow came on.(Sidlow doesn't get the credit he deserves for me.) Once we had some go-forward in the pack our half backs could then play some football. Vinnie Anderson showed us that he could play a bit too, and took his try really well.

Matty Smith had a good game too. I thought his kicking game was as good as I've seen from him in a Salford shirt.

Unlike the Leigh match, we always looked like we could score tries and for me were clearly the better team.

Our rustiness showed with moves that didn't quite come off as our timing was a bit out. I think we must have given away three(?) penalties for obstructions in moves that had looked promising.

At least we now have something to build on. The next target must be to try to improve our defence out wide.

It was really encouraging to see Sidlow showing some aggression. More of the same I hope.

Decided to go at the last minute,agree with the other posters about Feka,anderson and Smith.We cannot start games like we did yesterday,no S.L.team will let us back in to the game so easily being 16_6 down.What doe`s concern me is this queing for tickets at the office,like i said we went at the 2 and it was 3 before we got in,thats not to bad on a Sunday but Friday nights i can see it being a nightmare and putting people off going if like me its a last minute decision,other than that enjoyed the second half,i thought that trialist was Josh Veivers ,i was obviously wrong.

Another slow start which we will need to improve on but on the whole a lot of positives to take from the game. Like others have said, Feka looked a different player on last year and if he can go like that for rest of the season then he'll be like a new signing. Think Broughton will enjoy playing outside of Moon and can see that side being quite prolific going forward. I do worry about a Gleeson/Williams combination defensively though. Moon needs new boots, they were horific!

Posted on the Reds FB page about cash turnstiles. They've basically said that the stadium company do not want them. I can see this being a major problem going forward. I worry when team brings a few away fans ala Wigan/Wire etc the ticket office simply wont be able to cope. Only 1800 their yesterday and it looked to me like they were really struggling with those numbers. All a learning experience for them i suppose.

Matty Ashurst looks likely to be a long term casualty with a suspected torn ankle ligament .

a few good performances out there , but our goal line defence was bad again , especially on the right, if we can let Tyrer over for two easy tries god help us against Tompkins ,Carmont & co.

Hope Paleaaesina contributes that vain of form for the season which I guess will be unexpected bonus as most , including me had written him off as a viable impact forward.

Quite like our Triallist 'Stuart Howarth ' ( how long will this registration soap opera carry on ?).

Does anybody know the crowd figure for yesterday? , it was an additional fixture and followed on from a disasterous performance aginst a lively Leigh outfit .

Dantes said Saints have sold out their preason game against Widnes ( sold out home allocation , capacity 12,000) , which for a Friendly is fantastic. We are definately not Saints !

A better gauge will be the attendance for our Wigan Pre season Game? Last year it was 2,545 at the Willows in Jan , & 6,266 for the SL Home fixture in March . it will be the first non restricted attendance so what figure will be reagrded as progress?

firstbus are totally crap at the weekend, spent over an hour on John Dalton St on Saturday night waiting for buses that are every 15 mins, in the end walked down to Salford Central and got the free train home.

As said above, the slow start was more than a bit worrying, if we do that against a top 8 side we're done for. But the rest of the match and the second half were much more encouraging, Tuesday will give us a good indication of how we're shaping up for the year ahead. Quite a few silly penalties given away, I think I saw more crossing penalties yesterday than the whole of last season put together. Still, a much better showing that we need to build on.

Off the pitch, I think yesterday confirmed that the ground is the coldest in the country, even more so than OT cricket ground! Bloody freezing in there, with a wind whipping around the place that wasn't evident outside. Never mind beer, they'll make a killing on Bovril over the next few months.

And the ticketing arrangements... Thankfully I went down to the ground about 12.45 and there was no one there, bought my ticket, no hassle later on. The queue at ten to three was dreadful with plenty of people who'd been in there in good time. Some only got in with 20 minutes gone, plenty of others walked away from the ground. It needs looking at because if we do get a big gate on then it will cause chaos, even with the smaller ticket offices open. Hopefully it's just a case of the staff learning the job and things starting to run smoother.

As ever in RL the pack needs to be at least on par with the opposition to allow the backs to be able to do their thing.
So from yesterday i think we have the makings of a good second row with Anderson and McPherson ( hope the latter is fit as he hasn`t figured for long periods.) Front row was and is still an issue IMO, great to see Feka looking like the player he could be, beyond that i`m not sure. Hard working definitely but enough to drive us off our try line, not sure. That said early days so I try not to get carried away with wins or losses, tho Leigh was hard to take. Not the score, tho that was very embarassing (!) more the performance which was.........
Would have preferred this performance against Leigh then build on that against Halifax & then the Pies.
Worried about the injuries Wild and his back & Broughtons groin whilst i obviously don`t know the prognosis for either they are both potential long term issues. Hope i`m wrong particularly for Jodie who could be on for a great year o/s Moon.
Despite everything excited for the start of the season, must be the optimist in me

MR is correct : he is a "loose forward" but I think of the older type where they linked with the 6/7 partnership : he played at stand-off and full-back in his youth.
So as we now expect the "13" to be more a forward, perhaps he is another utility in the 9/6/7/1 area (just like Moon and ...)

You are quite right about the ticket office and it is the procedures staff have to follow which cause the problem.

Yesterday I joined the queue at the ticket office 40 minutes before kick off and got my ticket 5 minutes before kick off. That is from a gate apparently of 1800 so should you ever get a game of 3 times that a fan would have to be there for about 2 hours before kick off.

A sensible way out would be to scrap the booking fee and let fans get tickets via the internet. The ticketing sysyem used at present clearly will never work.