You can't keep hiding behind stats though. Lawrence is claiming tackles by being second or third man in too often and still not being effective enough to ensure that the tackle area is won. He's laying on top of the ruck too often .

I've only watched the tries back once, but it looks to me like Mellor has gone missing in defence on more than one occasion - Farrell and Turner were definitely there. And his reaction to the kick through was disappointing - no attempt at chasing back.

I’m not sure what you are getting at? Lawrence put it’s a LOT of hard work- whether he’s 1st man or third he’s still doing it more than any other player in our side and laying on??? Lawrence rarely gives away penalties and didn’t concede one last night. Mellor was second highest tackler so he’s hardly going missing! Maybe if some of the others did a bit more.....

as expected a salford win

no team will win with so many injuries in a salary cap sport

just gutted i didnt put more money on salford to win!!!

another defeat next weekend in france coming up.

Agree I think it could be a few weeks until we see our first win , I think when/if we ever get a fully fit side then we should be good but until then we’ll struggle

Quote jools="jools"Bloomin heck first folk blaming Faz now wardle. It was turner that was next to uate. He missed 5 tackles from 20, uate missed 2 from 4. https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/s ... 34-salford I’m not sure what decent you saw from uate, missed half as many tackles as he made, and three errors from a guy who barely touched the ball isn’t great. Incidentally Faz was our third highest tackler behind Lawrence and mellor. Made 33 missed 1- from a half that’s brilliant- and he still outshone frawley in attack for me.'" 0 carries and 0 meters for faz too so not all good

Quote jools="jools"Bloomin heck first folk blaming Faz now wardle. It was turner that was next to uate. He missed 5 tackles from 20, uate missed 2 from 4. https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/s ... 34-salford I’m not sure what decent you saw from uate, missed half as many tackles as he made, and three errors from a guy who barely touched the ball isn’t great. Incidentally Faz was our third highest tackler behind Lawrence and mellor. Made 33 missed 1- from a half that’s brilliant- and he still outshone frawley in attack for me.'" 0 carries and 0 meters for faz too so not all good

yep and chasing the rest again

such a shame we have got it all wrong again, never learn

Its not just that we have injuries, I feel like we haven’t recruited in the right areas

Not only that we have recruited a lot of poor players some on long contracts the coach cannot getrid Of !

Why bring in Uate when Darnell was brilliant on the wing last year why not bring in a quality full back , Frawley I think still needs time to gel with Gaskell but we needed a loose forward in my opinion cause as much as I like Bruno I don’t think he’ll cut it there

I understand what you say, but I think your missing my point. It's better to watch and review the game rather than look at stats. Lawrence may be higher on the tackle count than most but for the majority of them, he is coming in after 75% of the tackle is complete.
And Mellor may also be high on the count, but if he is missing on three or four tries, then that's the stat that counts

I’m more bothered about effort tbh. It’s clear we don’t have the most skilful of players in our squad- but you can make up for some of that with effort. I can forgive any player that missed a tackle after putting in 40. Less so if it’s missed after putting in 2.
No half back should have to make 33 tackles- if that’s happening someone else is lacking in effort.