Burrell. His first and only try?

Just kidding I’m sure he’ll get a game at some point.

Lineham over.

26-10.

Ratchford seems to have his kicking boots on. Fingers crossed he can keep it up for the season.

The purists won't like it....
But Steve Price called it right.
Soak up the best of what Salford had and hit them in the 2nd period when they're burnt out.

That tactic won't work in 1st two games..any how we won 26-10 so well done wire

Perhaps...but Price still called it right. Had the confidence and nerve to ride the critics of the first 40.
Give the bloke credit when he earns it.
I'm the first to dish it if they haven't.

I thought Burrell had a good game, looking a lot fitter than last year. Ashton and BMM also had good games. We need to smarten up to the new play the ball rules though. Not a great game, we did win but it looked a bit clunky.

Thought Burrell looked good in the back row. Ashton MoM for me though.

When did he call that?

Good to see some enthusiasm in the team & some decent handling. Salford came to be competitive & it produced a very entertaining game. I think Ashton would be wasted stuck on the wing,there is a lot more to his game ,he gets stuck in. The new ,leaner Burrell did nothing wrong & Sita & BMM did more minutes than normal. Gelling did some good running apart from a couple of handling faux pas.
I could imagine this new holding down rule causing some problems for teams this season ,with team warnings & yellow cards galore.Kendall was loving it & pinged us with relish at every opportunity.

Good to see the armchair critics out in force.

Anyway the big positives tonight were Matty Ashton who looked terrific and BMM who seemed to want to get through a lot of work.

Negatives were the lack of movement off the ball particularly in the opponents 20m and the utter lack of involvement of Ben Currie.

Summary; No idea what to expect in 2020

I think you're being a little unkind on Currie. He was working hard in defence and attack but sadly that star quality was still missing.

Still a bit rough but there are shoots of promise in us at least having worked on moves going forward I think that we scored some good trys. Early on was a worry they were pinning us back in defence and making ground with the ball.

Ashton had a very good debut put himself about and made some good tackles. I think burrell looked more like a rugby league player his tackling technique is better and he has the strength to get the ball free.

Gelling and Charney need more time he was looking for an offload but Charney was always there for flat pass which was mot on.

Looks like we will grow into the season as players regain fitness and we get some ganes together