Will be interesting to see how the players "workloads" change over the current months, at the moment most of their tweets go along the lines of "hard long full day training, knackered now Costa coffee then bed after a bit of Call of duty

A lot of them treat it like a blackberry messenger service which is great for us who follow them, we will know if they are doing shorter less intense training sessions as there will be more time spent in Costa coffee and on a golf course somewhere.

Sorry think the players should have a code of conduct as they are first and foremost players who represent Salford City Reds. Even if Parish has gone the kind of childish drivel you read they have said is unacceptable and makes the club look even worse.

Well put MR. If I did the same, my employment would be ended immediately. Whereas freedom of speech is a right, so is the duty to express oneself properly and not to defame others ot the organisation you represent.

Sadly, the more that is happening, the less I want to be a Salford fan.

I think they do they don't talk tactics or anything specific just "trained knackered now"
I think its a useful tool to have if we can get in their heads in a positive way and get that extra 1% out of them might make all the difference in my opinion as when you speak to thks in real life they are very robotic "yes, no ect"

While not for a milli second do I agree with the "defaming" of people by our players via twitter I think this forums general response to our players general tweets borderline pathetic.

Wow, these people have social lives and use public networks to communicate....

Get a grip people, seriously. We're not talking about premiership footballers here. More talented local lad's some earning less than your local GP. While I appreciate they represent an organisation the outside world is probably more pre occupied with the laughing stocks further up food chain.

I gotta agree with Lyrad Red here.

It's nothing. Players are people after all, not automatons who have to adhere to some moral high ground. It's not like it's anything that bad, and believe me when I say that player/coach conflicts have existed under previous set-ups and will continue under the next. That's life. So a couple of players have aired their feelings. The same feelings that get aired between themselves every day, the fact that we know about them changes nothing. It seems to fill some of us with outrage when we discover that players are allowed to have opinions and some of them opinions might make you feel uncomfortable.

What the OP failed to show was a lot of positive vibes that have come out of Twitter also.

Things are so negative on the Turkey atm that every little bit of information is jumped on in a negative light. It's definitely a case of glass half empty on here these days.

The attitude on here is unbelievable. You all seem to think that Because Parrish was an Aussie he was a good coach. How many of you had even heard of him before he was appointed? Was it coincidence that the week before he left he was being touted for a job at Manly. It could be far worse, they could have appointed Steve Anderson who nearly destroyed us in 2002.

We didn't really get to judge his coaching. I think many just thought he was a good bloke.

If we do appoint a replacement hungry to gel with the fans on this board, he'd be missing a trick if he didn't conduct his entire first press conference waving a 'w@nker' sign at the directors and periodically winking at the camera.

You can believe what you like about MP, but one thing's for sure, he was right about Feka. He IS a fat b**tard AND he's not worth a contract and therefore we needed to GET RID.

Unfortunately for us, Wilko and Simms appointed Parish AND signed Feka. Typical endings to the thousands of false promises we've had to swallow over the years.

Ashley Gibsons comments on twitter just now about training ''skills, weights and pilates done, off home now...too easy'' Make of that what you will. I hope he's not referring to how much of a doddle it is under Phil Veivers thats exactly what they want and exactly what we don't.

unless he is being ironic, which is what i sometimes use twitter for, a kind of tweeting troll

Yeah saw that....bit of a concern going from "oh im dying" which is the usual post training tweets from our players since preseason began, wonder what time they started training today?, finished at 2pm maybe even early presuming he freshed up before tweeting

to be fair he has come out swinging as i pulled his leg about it said he was talking about the life of a rugby player and that "the boys are working hard all the time...some can barely walk" it kind of gave me a walm glow inside pre season is all about pushing yourself to the limit
He does seem obsessed with physical fitness the amout of stuff he does of his own back with is a bonus

Maybe they have been running around on tyres and lifting mars ala the video on't vishal site.
Would hope this is Gibson being ironic rather than factual.

Anyone considered the fact that today was a day reserved for weights, moves and ball skills? You know, a lighter day to put some focus back into the technical side of things.

I have had the pleasure (Or lack of) of a couple of Salford pre-seasons. Even under Tamati, pre-season was arranged in such a way as to be intensely physical and demanding the first half of the week, and more technical towards the end of the week.

Just a thought, seeing as it seems fashionable on here to see who can make the biggest knee-jerk reaction to the slightest thing.

God i remember Tamati,s pre season training sessions they were gruesome up their in buile hill park and school .But luckily we had super tex and gibbo to keep us amused with their crazy antics.which made training great.

Gruesome indeed. I was a fit lad and my first pre-season had me almost vomiting with exertion. I hate Buile Hill Park with a vengeance to this day.

Yeah me too it was my 1st pre season with salford, the academy had just formed and i remember Malc Reddican ( God bless his soul ) had interested salford due to a enthralling barla tour that year and he was throwing up all over buile hill park......

So this throwing up during preseason is "normal" there was me thinking the players are bordering on making themselves ill trying to get fit....

should the players be able to go on twitter and give out views, mosts of us on here would be pulled for giving out views on jobs above us at work.
all at the club should be working as a team, not saying what's going on!

I'm still want to know who signed Peter Maitland from Bridgend ' the next Martin Offiah ' I'm still catching up on this blame game and that was 1997 though I don't know if I can pin that one on Father Ted , maybe Dougall or Father Jack ..

todays outing on twitter


Daniel Holdsworth


been a big week , 1 more session 2 go #buggered

Pick the bones out of that then.. .

I played for the A team during the Tamati era, although he worked you hard he was a fair and cracking bloke both to players and fans.

I remember being on the bench at the Willows for an A team game and Kevin took his usual position on the roof next to the scoreboard with his walkie talkie, there was about 10 mins left in the game and we were getting beat when Kevin radio'd down to the bench and said to the A team coach Ian (forgot surname but think it began Mc ?) why don't you put the young lad on ?
He never did but I later went onto to get in games later, from that day on I held Kevin in such high regard !

Good luck to Phil and the lads anyway I will be there at the new stadium and just hope the backroom staff start getting their act together as well as the players !
It looks like we will still have the same financial contraints even going into the new stadium at least for now so Phil has a real job on to make the best of what we have or can get !

Twitter update today

All players are knackered after a tough session

It's like they have been reading this.....