The 2023 pack should rumble us upfield over the course of 80 mins against most opposition, if the incumbents play to reputation and ability.

Scoring when we get upfield will be the issue we have to fix, [iagain[/i

When did we last fix it? 2010 - 2014?

All good matey, i genuinely think this is the full crap year of turmoil, and next year will be a great year for us

Looks like we're here to help with Powells first win, Rowley has included six players no Salford fan has ever heard of, must have dragged them off the street, and included players like Greenwood who's been injured all season, i'd forgotton all about him and Escare and Livett who've been ruled out for the season. He's basically pulled the first 17 other than Cross and King. I think you might just nick it.

TBH wasn't that nearly always just a high kick to the wing - sure we got a bunch of trys from Hicks & Monaghan doing it, but it was hardly a fluid / dynamic attacking strategy that cleverly unpicked a defence.

(Recognising there's a definite skill to kick it (under pressure) in the right place repeatedly, which I'm not sure we've currently got anyway).

Should be close then!

Josh McGuire, March 2021, had he time travelled into the future to watch his future employers
2023 - Year of Steel and a non plump squidgy underbelly - (Hopefully)

Quote: shinymcshine241 "TBH wasn't that nearly always just a high kick to the wing - sure we got a bunch of trys from Hicks & Monaghan doing it, but it was hardly a fluid / dynamic attacking strategy that cleverly unpicked a defence.'" 2011 we were red hot with flowing attacking moves - Brett Hodgson at full back, King and Bridge in the centres, Briers and Myler at half. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOdw38f1FTk

Quote: shinymcshine241 "TBH wasn't that nearly always just a high kick to the wing - sure we got a bunch of trys from Hicks & Monaghan doing it, but it was hardly a fluid / dynamic attacking strategy that cleverly unpicked a defence.'" 2011 we were red hot with flowing attacking moves - Brett Hodgson at full back, King and Bridge in the centres, Briers and Myler at half. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOdw38f1FTk

We also had dummy runners all over the place, something we have not seen since 2014 which is an absolute basic of rugby league.

Hopefully a dominant pack will give us the energy for plenty of life in the attack in the opposition 20.

We did get a lot of tries with kicks to the wing but also scored a lot from breaks from deep where we had supporting runners bursting through the middle, Myler, Atkins, Hodgson. Also Michael Monaghan was pretty good at making things happen inside the other team's 20. We didn't exactly play champagne rugby eg Saints under Millward or Cas in 2017 but we had a lot of ways to overrun teams who were generally backpedalling against our pack.

We did. The most potent Warrington attack threat I have seen since Tony Barrow's1986 side with Andy Gregory, Mark Robert, Mike Greg, Boyd, et al

What a team that was.

Yep, been 10 years of sad, slow decline.