The grumbles seem mostly to concern the kids around the ground rather than Salford fans. You hear these grumbles from Salford fans too.

I do worry for Salford that they've gone so far down the road of telling people it's essential for the club's progress to move to a new ground that they'll never be able to get people to The Willows again. Witness: 3367 last night.

My heart started to beat fast at 18 - 30 as it did look as if the Reds were going to storm back, I thought not again! bit give the Guy's credit, they lifted themselves and made sure the game was well and truly finished! we need more of that, so many Great performances what a player Louis has become.

As a Salfordian, I thought the home crowd wavered between the suicidal to a baying mob. They have only come up from NL1 and lost half a dozen first choice players. If they don't have patience they are in for a long season, as far as I could see the team in Red were doing their best and nearly pulled off an incredible comeback. My heart was in my mouth at 18-30! I thought we had a perfect first 38 minutes and Mbu and Heckenberg slotted in very well. Dorn, Orr and Randall ran the whole show and the score would have been more if the tries were not scored in the corners.

I had to laugh when one Salford heckler was telling Orr not to bother kicking the last conversion as he would not get it and he was a waste of time. Needless to say he put it over, it was interesting that the Salford scoreboard said 38 minutes when the hooter went.

The Academy lads scored 52 ! Boy do we have some talent coming through!

But wasn't it a good night!!! the locals around us were amused and amusing (with a couple of loud exceptions) and I had the feeling they didn't really expect to win. The fight on the pitch about 60 mins was very half hearted.

Do we? Are there some standout youngsters in the reserves now we don't know about since last season?