Like Patrick Ah vans only worse.....

The only thing Patterson had today was permission from Silverwood to act like an A-hole without repercussion. I spotted at least 2 shoulder charges that were not even pulled up for a penalty and he was always niggling in the tackle but that's what happens when you are coached by Harris who has watched Wane's sheeeeitehouse tactics for the last few years.

That's a great result, today.
Superb from Ratchford. At times, he got some shocking passes given to him, yet still managed to stick his arm behind him, control the ball, and then give a great pass. Cleared his line well, and made some eyecatching breaks. A deserved MoM for me

WtF's going with our publicity/marketing department. I went to bed last night, and there was no breaking on the 'net. Woke up, and checked BBC Sports website, and nothing publicised. Played golf, came home and checked the net again. Still no mention. Go to the match, and we've got the new Eric Grothe on the wing. Our media department want sacking for not announcing this new appointment. Well played, Eric. At least I never came on these boards slagging you off. SUPERB.

Can Westwood be banned?. As far as I remember, the incident wasn't put on report, and was dealt with a yellow card. Can they punish him again? If they can, will Wigan's Smith get retrospective action for his petulance on Thursday? Wont be holding my breath, though.

Solid but not spectacular from Clark
Solid and some good offloads from Sims. He did well to hold his temper after obvious provocation.
Half decent from Asotasi.
Some strength at times from Atkins.
I'm a happy boy. So much better than this time last year

That Patterson geezer should concentrate on his own game, rather than trying to wind the world up. He showed some good touches down the centre. Was expecting a lot more from Dobson. Never seen a side drop as much ball in dry conditions as Salford did, today. Marwan would've been throwing cups in the dressing room, when he was doing his coach's summing up to his players.

I must admit, watching Patterson today I thought they'd signed Hock and his more stupid brother.

Kevin Penny, quality from Swinton Lions, what did you expect. Wish Kevin every success in SL.

I to thought higham to was the better of the hookers and injected some pace into our attack.
Patterson was a bit of knob. Thought rangi chase was their most dangerous player and looked good.
I think Salford will beat saints next week judging by today's performance and seeing saints on sky yesterday.

There's real competition for places with Bridge, Russell, England, B Evans and Grix not playing today. I'm really optimistic about this season- a good solid win.

Some judging Clark for all the wrong reasons on here tonight....

Clark played from the start when Salford were at there fittest.
They were beginning to tire in the last 12 mins.
That is why Higham stood out more, but Clark was very busy against a rigorous defence in that early quarter.
He had his hands on almost every play.
His work load was by and large more than any other player for nearly 30mins and he was doing a lots of tackling as a forward would.

I don't think Higham would have put a shift in like Clark did with him dropping the odd ball with fatigue.

You have to look at the woods beyond the trees.

A bit controversial here.
I could only listen to the first half on Wire FM, but it certainly seemed like Sims was trying to play up to an 'enforcer' role with a few late and cheap shots himself - the first one on Paterson after about a minute. Looks like he wanted to stamp his authority. I wasn't too impressed by that.
From what I heard it seemed like Sims got dumped on his buma couple of times.

Salford seemed to have the best of the first 20 mins and we appeared to be lucky not to have conceded.
Sounds like some of our passes were a bit off, but I wouldn't expert much else given it's the first game.

Good to hear how well Kevin Penny played.

Anyway 2 points is 2 points.

Salford will take a few games to get into it because you can't have a virtually new team and expect it to gel from day one.

Regardless of how good Clark is, we'll miss Monas at hooker.

Considering all the high tackles that Salford put in, & only had a man sent off after a team warning, I thought it was a bit rich that Silverwood had no hesitation in binning Westwood for his careless tackle.Once more offside at the ptb was ignored & the ref didn't even punish the shoulder charge on GOB by the Salford number 12.
Was that Mr K in the Fancy dress devil costume ?



All in all a very entertaining game.

The first 20 for Salford was to niggle and cheap shot. What started the Sims nonsense was Patterson taking exception to Sims standing up for himself and his team mates. Sims did nothing dirty nothing cheap but just stood up and took everything they gave him like a man and like a Real pro....it was the best prop forward Debut Ive seen.

the fact they couldnt hurt him and rile him got up their noses all the more. Westwood might get the headlines for his high shot, but it has to be said it was after prettty much a team full of high shots from Salford. the particularly cowdarly high shot and elbow drop by Weller huaraki on the five stone lighter Gareth Obrien being one of the worst.

There was so much to despise about Salford today...even Morley got wrapped up in the niggle and it cost his side a try. After messing around with Asotasi of all people, Higham just picked up the ball and scooted through the gap.

I would start thinking about playing The Salford Wigan game in a cage it has the potential to be a shocker.

but so many positives right across the board for Wire today.......

Not dissing Clark at all, he had a good game and he would have been marked as well like Simms. I missed the first few mins so missed simms manoeuvre on Patterson but it looked like Patterson had it in for him.

A good solid 2 points against a good man for man side who'll be pushing for a top 4 spot.

Monas as well will be really missed.

The South West side was fairly loud to me.

I got there late so just got last min tickets for north west. I normally go in the south stand but was located 20m away from the away stand so it's obviously easier to hear the salford fans. Yes southeast was definitely more vocal but I was looking forward to hearing the whole south stand singing oh warri warri from the position I was in and nothing seemed to get going across the stand. Really chuffed with the attendance though. Salford brought a good few and wire sections were well filled.

Atmosphere at the game is not for the want of trying. Lots of us try to get things going but when some around you are stood in silence not joining in, it's hard to spread to those who want to join in. Easy solution; stand in the SW corner if you want to sing. It'll soon spread!