Bailey
Phelps
Coley

Phelps?

he let at least 3 balls bounce on the full. did ok attacking wise but a full back who lets the ball bounce shouldnt be there

I thought last night the team showed real character and patience to win the game. They went two scores down without reply early in the second half and instead of panicking and going for the match winning play, we instead built pressure and just waited for an opportunity and for once we took them.

I thought Sam Tomkins and Thomas Leuluai's kicking game was absolutely superb. It was very good throughout the night. Clint Greenshields is one of the best fullbacks in super league and I don't think he had many easy kicks to deal with tonight. I thought both our halfbacks were superb and Thomas Leuluai in particular had another brilliant game.

I thought our forwards stood up quite well. Stuart Fielden although he did make that early error in the second half I thought had one of his better games against a tough Catalans pack. Coley and Prescott were strong as well.

But big praise for me to Lee Mossop. Catalans are a formidable outfit to face as second rower playing at prop and I thought Lee Mossop played admirably. Very impressive. I hear whispers that the club fancy him as a prop forward and I think he would make a good prop forward but I believe he would be devastating at second row.

I thought Nobles tactics to move Karl Pryce at stand off was unfair. A halfback has to be confident to take on the line and organise the attack and Karl Pryce does not have that confidence. I thought some of the stick he got from fans before he had even touched the ball was really out of order.

I thought we did lose a lot of shape when Pryce came to stand off which was demonstrated as Catalans posted two tries without reply. But when Mark Riddell came on we looked to have found our structure again and battled hard and came away with the win.

Full credit to Mark Riddell. A lot of questions were asked of him tonight to lead us from dummy half and he did. He has kicked on these last few weeks and I thought that was another good performance from Riddell.

Also a quick mention for Cameron Phelps. He has brilliant inter-linking in attack and I think he had a hand in most of our tries.

My top three would be:

Mark Riddell
Thomas Leuluai
Cameron Phelps.

Coley
S. Tomkins
Goulding

P.S Can someone please tell Joel to start passing when we have an overlap.

in no part order

tommy (setup the first 2 tries and excellent kicking game)
coley (form prop)
sam (tackled like a dog. kicked well. didnt try and do it all himself)

hon mention - piggy (another solid game) and mossop looks a beast (need more time to assess him and defence was weaker than go forward but generally looks the business)

generally - halves good until riddell went off (that need sorting. i would rather play the reserves 9 on the bench than a 'part time' half and have to shuffle the players around). front row outperformed back row. back 3 out played centres.
most pleasing aspect was control and lack of panic when 8 down.
that is certainly something i havent see for a while.

I'm surprised Bails hasn't got more mentions.

pat
coley
goulding

Phelps
Bailey
Coley/ Goulding

Thought Daz was excellent he has improved his defence a lot in the time he has spent at salford

Did we just agree there?

Andy Coley
Sam Tomkins
Phil Bailey

1 Tommy, 2 Bailey, 3 Joel.

One player who I thought made a huge difference although not on long enough to make the top three was Lee Mossop.
Ironic that he'd never get in the team if Hock & Lockers were available yet having a fifth prop made such a difference.
Catalans have bust us up the middle game after game but they didn't last night. Greenshield made a run off a forward bust in the first half and Fakir made a good bust up the middle in the second. That was it!
With Noble playing five props they came off before they were knackered or hurt and went back on fresher. Cats got nowhere up the middle and that's why it was a stalemate between the forwards.
Both teams scored all their tries out wide.
If, with five props the lads can hold a pack as big as theirs then we are in with a chance against other smaller units.
Mossop must stay and become the fifth prop. No more loans for that lad!
Not in the top three but what a difference he made!

Phelps
Riddel
Goulding

Special mentions go to Leuluai, Sam and Hansen.