The first thing that came into my head this morning was 44 - 10 !I watched the game again and was surprised how much we were in control. As a Salford fan for more years than I care to remember, I actually spent too much of the game thinking "We can still lose this!" Only this morning did I realise we were never really threatened and how much we were on top.

The last time I felt this good about a game was probably twenty years ago when we beat Wigan in the Cup at the Willows. At Hull last week I thought we had tries in us, but thought our pack was too lightweight and that we would struggle a bit behind a beaten pack, but last night our forwards gave a very good account of themselves. Much will be said about a poor Saints performance but perhaps Saint Helens only managed to play as well as we let them.

Games often tend to produce a massive over-reaction, particularly on here. Last week we were the worst team in the League and this week we are going to be the best according to some. I know that form can vary, but as long as effort and commitment stays high, perhaps we now have a genuine team ethos for the first time in many a long year that can help us advance. Last night the product on the pitch was better than the sum total of the players. We didn't see contrived celebrations where everybody rushed over to celebrate, but saw players genuinely playing for each other. Better discipline and fewer mistakes helped too. All seventeen deserve high praise.

If we can build on this.............but hang on, this is Salford! I just hope I don't have to wait another twenty years.

Last week was poor, last night was brilliant.

Think the obvious litmus test will be when we play Widnes, a team who are on the same sort of level as us and the type of team we should be beating if we are seriously going to be challenging for a top 8 spot.

where's all the doom mongers this morning as very quiet on here?

Nice to see this board showing positive attitudes for a change.

Good win.

Was mightily impressed with the team work on show last night, when you think who is left to come back in and potentially be brought in (reports of Burgess coming) we have a decent squad, Johnson came in and made it tricky now to drop when Junior is 100%.

Thought O'Brien looked much better last night, still don't think he should be starting ahead of Evalds but then again Evalds got 2 well taken tries.

I saw enough from Liu to know that I'd take a player with his qualities over the occasion brilliance of Chase and then BMM he looks like a younger and less prone to brain farts Hock.

Was slightly surprised with the crowd, thought we'd see a good 1000 less than that being on Sky, it being Thursday and last weeks shambles.

The odd gripe, the beer was vile, how you can mess up something like John Smiths so monumentally is beyond me and something must be done about the buses, every man and his dog knows we will all file out 22:15 at the latest, First should put on a shuttle to Eccles, charge everyone £2, one stop in Eccles so everyone can then get a train/bus/tram onwards.

All I'm saying is, you didn't attend and we thrash Saints.

well your team did set out to blow someone away ...AND YOU DID ......St Helens !!!

Time to get behind them I think. Good Luck Salford.

I tell you what, it's still very early days for Ian Watson and could go either way, but at least he looks the part. Keiron Cunningham looks like a kid who's won a competition to be a Superleague coach for a day in his mad hat and massive headphones.

Where is Solly the most doom & gloom of all Salford fans!

158 metres last night from George Griffin, will be a top forward this year.

Last night was a great TEAM performance, and we should enjoy the plaudits coming our way for the next couple of days.

But we shouldn't get carried away (we're Salford fans so I don't think we will, its not "in our DNA"icon_wink.gif. It will be no good thrashing Saints if we then slip up against Widnes next week. We've got tricky fixtures coming up in the next month - if we beat Widnes we can go into the Wigan and Warrington games with some confidence.

I expect Sheens and Watson did not panic too much after the Hull performance and assume they won't be doing cartwheels after last night. Its about building momentum and going about our business in a professional, level-headed manner.

BTW it was good to hear our coach talking with a local accent. 'One of our own' instilling a team ethic into a group of hungry young players. Who'd have thunk it?

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Tries 8 - 2
Offloads 8 - 4
Metres 1429 - 884
Carries 187 - 127

the obvious highlights were Lui / Carney etc ,but take note of the stats for Adam Walne & George Griffin , 46 tackles, 34 carries, 297 metres between them .
my fear was we'd get monstered in the front row , especially with saints interchanges . quite the opposite .

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so now 5 wins in 42 matches.

highest score V Saints ( 44 ) beating the previous record ( 2010 May 15th 42 - 34 ) .

highest winning margin ( 34 ) beating previous (1994 Jan 12th W 34 - 2 ).

I recall a discussion on here just before the season started, a couple of us said we could see the big potential in George Griffin and someone else (cant remember who) wouldn't have any of it.

I think we saw a glimpse of that potential last night. He ran his absolute heart out tonight, winning the collision each and every time. Whilst he isn't physically the biggest (yet) the speed he has for a prop means he is always going to make the advantage line. I think people forget how young he is too, we should be tying him down for another 3 years.