I was always a big fan of O'Brien. It was a hard decision because he had a good opportunity to prove himself, few years. He suffered from having to do it on his own though. Put O'Brien as a back up with Gidley and Sandow and we're no worse off in any way. I'd have kept him around. In the end though he eventually does have to step up and carry a team, I don't think Gaz would have ever done that.

Poor Hicks must be gutted.

We did it using pretty much 15 men - Wheeler played 10 mins and Julien never got on - and Dodds didn't come on till 10-15mins into the 2nd half

Great fitness and determination

Here's one to keep an eye on, see how many other players get sin binned for stirring like currie did tonight, ruffling someone's hair after a penalty is worth a yellow card now ? Bull

Found it ludicrous to send Currie to the sin bin and yet leave Masella on there.

I thought I saw a class drop goal in the hull Cas game last week but that from chrissy Sandow tonight will be the kick of the year.

I would have just about grinned and borne it if Murdoch-Masila had gone too for his horrible little dig on the floor. But the fact he didn't made it a shocking decision and, as you say, set an interesting precedent which won't be repeated when Leeds etc start doing the same.

Nevertheles, I thought it was great that Currie didn't back down in front of that meathead: we gave Currie plenty of stick last season for not getting his hands dirty. He stood up for himself, his sinbinning fired up his teammates, and the rest was history.

I would have liked to have seen GOB stay, too. I read today that he opted out of his last year under advisement from TS that he likely wouldn't see much game time and that isn't what he needs at this point in his career. I think he made the right call and he had a great game tonight. Worrying for us how lost we looked without Gidders though.

The Sky team would have been gutted with that. Clarke's been told to calm the 'Wigan' down in him so now he's a Salford fanatic; excitable Wells says he's "sweet on Salford" this season and said they'd win; and Warringtonian but clearly not a Wire, Eddie, will be going home in a mood after that!haha

Well what a comeback it was and what a finish by Sandow. It was harder to drop that goal than kick the penalty he had a minute earlier. Great drama!

Though trip to Perpignan next but tails should be high and Gidley should be back.

Seemed we couldn't tackle a good Sunday dinner in the first half. IMHO we owe a debt of thanks to Ben Currie's little spat for lighting a fire under us and starting the comeback. I thought Ashton Sims had one of his best games tonight.

I didn't think GOB looked great bar a couple of good touches. The game highlighted his weaknesses and why he will struggle to ever be a good player in SL. His tackling was hopeless, a half decent fullback stops at least two of our tries and he just kept getting smashed when running the ball in.

He doesn't offer enough in attack at the moment to offset his defence, maybe that will change over the next few years.

Sandow's kick was an incredible piece of skill - in those conditions, plenty of pressure on him from defenders and he hit it sweet as a nut. Beautiful.

I agree that the Currie spat fired us (and particularly Hill & Simms) up and turned the tide. I also thought fitness wise we looked to have twice as much in the tank as Salford around the hour mark. As soon as we got within a converted try they were begging for penalties.

I thought Matty Russell was absolutely exceptional tonight, and fair play to Atkins who took both his tries very well.

A great result, plenty of improvement to come, and players to come back into the fold.

Happy days.

Hill was immense as usual, Matty Russell was very good, thought Westerman had a good second half...and Sandow...WOW what a kick...sheer brilliance from the guy, Happy days indeed.

Matty Russell makes such a difference when he plays with that tempo, great game from him tonight.

Wow, what a comeback I never saw that coming at 12-30. Amazing last kick and I particularly enjoyed sims try. Fact remains though our defence in the first half was mick poor, we won't get away with defending that softly very often.

Second half was incredible, great character not throwing in the towel. i wish I put £20 on Sandow for man of steel in the off season.