Interesting to see lunt is playing 80 mins in the Derby- suggests he's not backing up Monday????

think he will, most of our players will be playing with a days less rest than lunt

lunts fitness levels are very good too, when hes not injured!

well back down to earth today with that loss!

anderson said we needed a ball with handles on and hes not wrong, just couldnt keep the ball... and sorry but if you give salford that much ball your not going to win.

we beat warrington then go and lose this one

we just dont seem to learn that without the ball you dont win!

well done salford, hope the fans were on the 3/1, always seem to beat us once a year... got in our faces again too.

I would like to reference something I mentioned before the game, Andersons dealing of an inured player.
I really question why he did what he did regarding the Cudjoe injury.
Last night Broughton did nothing wrong what so ever, however I think everyone would agree that both Jerry and Murphy had their worst games so far this year.
I put this down to Anderson taking his very Nathan Brown approach to injuries. For me, it should be without question Cudjoe out, Connor (who plays centre every now and then) in. Wardle and Murphy has been a great partnership so far this year, so if you dont have to change it, THEN DON'T! It is causing extra unrest in the team than is needed! This is not an issue with Broughton because as I have said he did fine last night!

disagree, dont think it was the decision to leave connor out and move murphy to bring broughton in that was the problem at all

murphy was solid again

broughton was poor and wont keep his place

i did say at the game we look like we've been disrupted by moving murphy to centre,i would have been tempted to do a straight swap, connor for cudjoe, but quite rightly broughton was given his chance.

think it's a bit harsh to say he was poor, he didn't do too much wrong IMO and didn't have much chance in attack.

dont think anderson will agree on monday when he doesnt play

if he doesn't play then that's not because he was poor it's because cudjoe and murphy are the first choice in those positions and broughton isn't.

Broughton was the first choice at the start of the season but didnt take his chance, failed to do so yesterday too.

but we had a topic about broughton anyway and its all been said on there what needs to be said

I noticed with Jerry and Jodie playing with Grix as the back 3 we resorted back to the jog and give it to the winger tactic again, we haven't been doing this much with Murphy there and all 3 (Grix, Smurph and Jerry) have made good yards by just running hard - is it something Baloo thinks works better with Broughton in the side cos in my opinion it actually loses us ground as the opposition can read it like a book and are on the receiver before hes got the ball.

Well disappointed as I thought we could put ourselves solidly in the top part of the league over Easter. This is more to do with my over optimism than anything. This league is proving to be very very tight and with the exception of wakey at the min who are down 12 in people any team can beat any other side!
We shouldn't have to but we didn't play to how child's was officiating. We were determined in defence but as we coughed the ball up cheaply we were bound to concede points.
Positives to take away,
we didn't look tiered after all that defence

The atmosphere was much improved on all our fixtures at home so far. Well done to the lads and lasses at the back

Even being under the pump we still looked like we could get something at the later stages and managed to keep within six points

Frustrating as hell! I can understand running the the centre and delaying the tackle so we can get more players back but sometimes you need to get your head down and charge at the line! Giving up ten to twenty meters to pass to a winger? Not for me!

Thing is it's obviously a coaching decision to do that but folk get on on Grixy's back for 'not bloody running' whixh is unfair as i'm sure he'd like to have a crack at a broken defensive line like Jerry does - Broughton doesn't offer anywhere near that same threat.

I agree.

Grix is our best full back but on a lot of occasions last night he collected the ball and ran across the pitch 20 metres and gave it to Jerry to run back by which time the defenders were on him.

He should be told run it back and voluntary tackle if you have to but he could have made more yards.

If Jerry had not been so tired he might not have gifted that try to Salford when he should have knocked the ball dead

Like I said there are times running it to the middle is the preferred option for example if there are no players back with him the longer he takes to get tackled the longer our players get to get back and it means the defensive line has to be across the field instead of just to the left or right but he wasn't looking to run back hard at any point and he had been mixing it up prior to this!
I like grix, thought Connor did little wrong to get dropped but grix is so much more in attack popping up everywhere and chiming into the line! Awesome on his day just wasn't the best from him that game