I thought Phelps was trying too hard.

It was right to rest Fielden. Salford played better than I expected, they tackled well and it was two exceptional tries by Pat that sank them.

Over all, no I don't think we missed Fielden insomuch that we coped. He is playing well now and seems to have had a new lease of life under Madge.

I fully agree.

It’s getting beyond tedious is some of the preaching by a select few posters.

It doesn’t make sense as well. No one is saying they aren’t playing well this season so why do they keep making threads about them?

Maybe it’s cause they are in cloud cuckoo land and actually think many of the above were doing enough for the team last year?

I'd agree. I've criticised Tommy in the past but thought we missed him a lot today - not just his step in attack but defensively also (as an aside thought Sam had a great game in defence today).

Goulding deserves some credit for not going into touch more often - he got some poor passes today.

I also thought Phelps was poor by his own standards - both in attack and his positional play in defence. Let's hope he improves with a couple more games under his belt.

Agreed.

I would draw a line under last season - Brian Noble included - and agree to disagree.

Everyone has been full of praise for Roberts, Riddell and Fielden this season.

I agree. We definitely missed Tommy's defending. Paul Deacon is not a great defender. He missed two tackles in the build up to Salford's only try. I thought Madge had taken him off because of this, but I'm hearing he might have picked up an injury. His kicking game was pretty good today though.

Exactly mate.

Everyone is happy with the way they've played this season and this season is all that matters as far as I’m concerned

As much as some would like to they can't re write history and have us believe all the above were playing as well last season as they are this.

Agree to disagree as you say.

deacon picked a foot injury up shortly after putting in a kick on the 5th tackle.

I haven't seen a "I told you it was wrong not to renew Noble's contract" or a "I told you we should have signed Ryan McGoldrick at fullback" threads.

Can't think why?

He was limping by then.

Before he got injured he put in several good, first time tackles.

The Salford try was lucky, that kick was going dead before it was touched. By Micky Mac I think but I'm not 100% certain.

He was taping his right leg up during the pre match warm up, maybe an ongoing issue

yeh i agree we missed his influence in the pack