Luke was great, too early to judge Jake in comparison IMO. Either way, he's a massive improvement over last year.

patten was liability under a high ball , mullaney looked a lot more assured under a bomb , thought smith had a solid game apart from his brainfart pulling back lauitiiti`s leg on the 10 metre line , it was 18-10 and we were under the cosh not sure if they scored of that pen or not , but the offence was on the 5th tackle , annoying

Sadly, most Salford fans used to slate him.

Hopefully, Mullaney will show a few sparks in attack as he looks very solid at present but hasn't managed to get space in open field.

I've said it a million times, Howarth isn't good enough, Gaz Owen must be fuming that size gets picked before actual rugby ability.

i though Mullaney looked dangerous when returning the ball, hock was immense going forward, i also like the look of Greg Johnson. Disappointed with the second half, but a win is a win and we will only get better.

I thought Howarth was shocking yesterday and I'm suprised he got in the squad ahead of Fages. On a positive note, Mullaney had a solid game along with Hock and Hansen. I also thought Tommy Lee had a great game; much better than I anticipated.

Sorry to disagree with Howarth: yes he was slower aroung the play the ball but his defence saved us twice. I left with mixed feelings about him but felt he was a lot better than when he was last "heew".

I do agree Fages or Owen would have been my choice but the issue was not the play the ball but our structure (or lack of) in the second half. We gave their pivots more room than we should have and so they began to run the game.

If we give Luke Walsh that much space and time, we will be humbled on telly.

I looked at Saints' bench on Thursday and shuddered.

Godinet looks like a quality player for Wakefield. He was pulling the strings for them.

Remember Jack Murphy under a high ball ?

Smith ran out of the line, possibly looking for an interception, which left the gap for Wakefield to score their first try

Jake Mullaney was my Man Of the Match yesterday.

Hock was a very close second though.

The less said about Howarth the better!

Paul McShane and Ali Lauitiiti were the stand out players for Wakefield in my opinion.

Gareth Hock was outstanding yesterday. I would go as far to say it was one of the best performances I have seen from a second-rower in a Salford shirt. The power, strength and aggression was there for all to see, he was like a man on a possessed.

MOTM for me.

This is his 3rd season at the club though so it's hardly a knee-jerk reaction!

Plus he spent a large portion of last year at St Helens under the tutelage of Keiron Cunningham and from the looks of it didn't learn a thing from him about hooking!!

If Chase isn't fit next week I'd play Fages at 6 with Owen on the bench. If Chase is in, Fages or Owen on the bench as interchange hooker in place of Howarth.

My feelings about Johnson aside I think it was foolish to play him and Walton on the same side, they might be ex team mates at Batley but they got exposed by the speed of McShane and skills of Lauitiiti every time they attacked that side.

Howarth I'm sorry not worth his starting place for me, Hock is scary with ball in hand but you kind of stand waiting for him to do something stupid in defence, Tasi for me is going to be a massive signing as along with Morley they gave us more go forward than I have seen in 20 odd years at Salford. I think you can see the class of Mullaney the only issue I would have is that he stands way too deep, at times yesterday he was that far behind the line that any form of chip over the top would have exposed him.

Going forward Howarth had an awful game yesterday, nobody could possibly dispute that. It didnt help that he was forced into the game earlier than Noble would obviously have liked to have used him but even so, his distribution was appaling. Why does he need to pick the ball up before passing? Any half decent hooker will throw the ball from the floor, instead Howarth allowed the Wakefield defence 2 seconds to get up and in our faces each and every tackle.

I would like to see Theo Fages or Gareth Owen given a go vs London.

Agree about Howarth, did a bit of decent work in defence but every time he was at dummy half he was picking the ball up and passing after a second or two. Tried a delayed pass and we got punished for it with the interception.

Mullaney looked really safe under the high ball, the only time he did drop one was when he pretty much got taken out in the air and we should have got the penalty. Think Wakefield might have scored from getting the ball back there as well.