Agree with most on here, its all about the play offs, (think we learnt that last year), but also that starting line up is not far off what alot have been saying on here for weeks is our starting line up in the near future.
Taking nothing away from Salford they deserved it tonight, but if we can stronger in Sept/Oct then tonight will lose all importance!

RIGHT.

Let's get some kind of perspective of tonight's "perfomance"

Smith "rested" some of our "high reputation" players.....fair enough, we have to live with that.

I whole heartedly disagree with Smith brining THREE players who haven't played 1st team rugby in MONTHS, back in the same game. On this issue, Smith needs a ####ing. BAD TACTICS (imho)

BUT, let's face facts, every player (bar Currie) is not a "wet behind the ear" teenager, who's got little experience.
They've all been round the squad for at least 3 years, and for them ALL to turn up a "performance" like that, is unacceptable.
Blaming GO'B and Myler, is quite frankly, pathetic. We were mullered in the forwards, and our ball possession from 1-17, would make a 3rd division amateur side cringe.

We need a response next week. I trust some players may respond!!!!!!

Myler looked rusty but is to be expected after a lengthy lay off blaming the halves is scandalous they cant create without the ball and the forwards looked shameful tonight loosing collision and giving away penalties bring back the injured players slowly off the bench over a 3 or 4 week period of time as i don't think there are any 20's games for a while

Spot on yes we need a super star and chase is that man to step into briers boots

Teams play themselves into form and players need to play.

Cannot think of ANY reason to constantly rest fit players.

Resting all these players is becoming pathetic now.. Tony Smith willl and deservedly so take a big chunk of the blame for today, how many games have we just scraped through this season and we've gone home thinking we've got away with that, get the best team out week in week out and get some form going again. Its becoming ridiculous as a fan that pays to go to every game when you get there and so many players have been rested, i understand resting maybe 1 of waterhouse/westwood/carvell every now and then.. but resting basically all our playmaking leaders? pffft. And to make all those changes aswell as bringing in Evans Myler and Solomona from long lay offs was frankly a very amateur decision.

personally i thought we may have been waiting to get players like M Monas back before going all guns blazing best possible 17 on the pitch and really go for it maybe i was wrong but hopefully what happened last year happens again get beat by Salford and then go on an unbeaten run

Never waver.

Where was Monas tonight?

All the talk of playoffs, squad rotation and resting doesn't wash for me.

Really, how late are we planning on leaving it to develop some sense of form? Surely you can't go into a playoff series totally cold. I just don't see it.

Yes, I know the weekly rounds are a 'joke' since Leeds won it from 5th but we're conning ourselves to some extent if we expect it all to just 'click' come sept/october.

Pretty much spot on.

ATEOTD, this is now an entertainment business. It's not like it was 20 years or so, ago, where people turned up and wanted their team to win BECAUSE IT MEANT SOMETHING. We are now just turning up at the HJ 13 times a year, and (for those that do it), go and travel to away games for a litteral "jockeying" position. IT COSTS A LOT OF MONEY TO FOLLOW A TEAM NOWADAYS, and it seems like we're all "peeing it up the wall" for such a tiny amount of recognition.

RL, now, reminds me of these cycling "events" that you see in a velodrome.
A few laps of #### all, when they are all messing about, and no-one's trying, and then....BANG, everyone's running around like a blue d fly, at the end.

We need to have a proper recognition for the LLS.....they go automatically into the GF.

SIMPLE

I have missed more games this year than in the last 20+ years. It only seems anything like a proper game when we play Wigan or Saints.

Tonight was a joke. It was like a lower division game, awful.