I forgot to mention Lee. Hooker's such an important role in the team and there's plenty of decent ones about.
With all due respect, this is a position that needs sorting ASAP for the Reds.

Letting Syned go with all the promise he'd shown and replacing him with an expensive show pony in Chase - Cas picked up Liam Finn for presumably less money and started to excel.

They should have been going for players like Huby, Milner, Kirmond and building a good solid, no frills pack that could reliably grind it out against 2/3 of the league. Then get a half back who can kick and you'll turn over any team who turns up off form or not respecting possession.

What's the lad playing in the halves for Leigh called (not Breierly)? Nice little general who would relish a last go at SL at a club that could be creating something special.

BJB was a good move, as was Caton-Brown, but its no good being able to play the piano if you've got no one to carry it to the theatre.

No. We usually played Rangi as the only half back and just played an extra forward.
However, I don't think Rangi and Sneyd every actually played together! Having seen both, I think this could work well.

For his best two years rangi played alongside Danny Orr who took care of the more conventional stuff like organising the team and kicking.

Looking from the outside in Salford have no balance to the team at all,for every good player there is a poor one at the side of him.

Look at all the good teams and they all have a good balance between class,workhorses and a sprinkling of young lads who have come through the youth system that have hunger and a desire to succeed,look at saints last night and the young players in their team were nothing short of superb.

I don't know who's advising Marwa koukash but the biggest investment made when taking over should of been into the youth development.

I'm pretty sure jumping from player to player and from coach to coach won't work it needs a long term plan and tiny steps forward if it's ever going to be successful unfortunately time and patience doesn't look like its something marwan has.

Agree with everything you say.

In the past four seasons we have spent heavily on wages. Weve built up major interest in the club and on every occassion its fallen flat.

Look at the positive attendances at these 3 for example
- Catalans last game at The Willows
- Cas first game at City of Salford Stadium
- Wakefield first game of 2014
Everytime we have failed to deliver and the crowds have dropped off alarmingly.

Last Saturday we took one of the biggest away followings I can recall and everything was v positive. Last night has deflated everyone. We will be lucky to attract 2k home fans for the Hull game.

I fear that if the Dr's approach is not rewarded soon then there will be no one able to pick up the pieces.

Something is obviously not working at our club for one reason or another.

If I had any advice for Marwan this is what it would be...

-Stop making huge statements and putting unnecessary pressure on the players
-Have patience (Wire lost their first 5 games in 2009 and won the Challenge Cup)
-Put heaps of money in the youth system and bring through hungry young players
-Make sure we have some decent trial games before the season starts
-Focus on making Salford a success first before you try and take the NRL by storm too, you can't run before you can walk
-Stay positive and believe, it's a long season and we WILL improve!

Manchester City are a fantastic example of this, they are throwing multi-millions at their academies to make the club self sustainable for the future.

On reflection this has to be one of the worst Salford performances ever, under the circumstances.

Can someone explain to me how professional athletes can hit the wall after just 10 minutes of physical activity? All the bull$hit from several players about feeling fitter than ever and it being a very tough pre-season is laughable. These lot should be on at the comedy store, not a rugby league pitch. Disgraceful.

I can't believe the team last night was pretty much the same team as Saturday. On Saturday we looked structured in both defence and attack (Barring about 10 minutes in the first half), committed and really up for it. Last night we looked disinterested, unstructured (Apart from the first 15 minutes) in both defence and attack.
The difference I thought was the fact that Kevin Locke was put into the team ahead of Niall Evalds. I'm not calling Kevin Locke because he's a world class player when he's fit.
Last night he was put into the team when he obviously wasn't fit. He even looked as though he was limping before we kicked off! That meant that a number of players didn't have the confidence in his defence because they knew he wasn't fit. As mentioned earlier BJB was virtually dropping back to Full Back half the time.
I think that there may have been pressure put on Iestyn Harris to play Kevin Locke last night and it upset the balance of the team not to mention the team spirit that was evident to the great Salford following at Warrington.
One other point, why play one of the best strike second rowers in world rugby as a prop forward? Leave Gareth where he plays best because we have enough Props on our books this year.
Hopefully it's a blip in the season with a relatively new team.
I for one was very disappointed last night, but it won't stop me turning out home and away in the future.
Bring on the next game