I think you are being harsh on Roberts.

The guy has great acceleration which he showed today, and his wonderful work set up a great try for Richards, which sealed the game. The break (again which was great work) were he was caught by Fox, put you in a good position to attack. Can't remember if anything came of it but when a player makes a break people think they should score and deem it a disappointment when they don't.

Tomkins was immense, an obvious talent and showed a side to his game which shows he's maturing by taking the game by the scruff of the neck. Same for young MM, when he came on he competley changed the pace of the game and I found it astonishing the way he took you forward despite your props bar Prescott being average at best.

Riddell has looked poor every single time I've seen him play this season, very slow and lacklustre. Fielden and Feka didn't have too much of an impact and Joel Tomkins has a shocker. Mossop surely would do a better job i'd hope it's only a matter of time before Farrell/Davies/Flannagn gets a chance. Although you wouldn't want to disrupte the great work of the reserves by taking out the top performers such as those 3.

But what you fail to see is that because he is "Keeping Ainscough out" that in itself is enough to call him rubbish or a disgrace!

Played well tonight IMO.

PS

It's the same with Piggy & MM.
Piggy has played better than him last 3 games but as soon as MM has the better game they all start again!

But if we're going to criticise every player who made a mistake today then J Tomkins shouldn't be immune.

Also, Feka actually breaks tackles, makes yards and creates tries with his offloads and creates space for others because he attracts more tacklers. Fielden plays for 50mins + but when's the last time you saw him make more than 3 yards, offload, create a try. Oh, and i suspect Fielden drops a lot more ball in the tackle and gives away more penalties. Feka's defence isn't immune from criticism but you're not telling me you're pleased with Fielden's contribution?

Which Salford player is as fast as either? He failed to take then on with pace as well in the league game when Gleeson put him away several times. Par for the course.



I should have edited that bit out too as it is nothing to do with it.



You don't see Ainscough miss many either do you?



Now if you are going to say things like saying he has no bottle are wrong you will have to accept saying things like Ainscough wouldn't have attempted to jump for it are a joke.

The fact is Roberts has not been some defensive Rock all season. He certainly has not been as effective as Ainscough on attack (absolute indisputable fact).

Dave

The reason he attracts the flack is he is no better than Ainscough defensively and worse on attack. So since he is keeping Ainscough out this is a problem.



I doubt many would agree but in any case over the course of the season MM has been better than Riddell overall.

Dave

Paul White.

No he has not, but he has made some telling contributions in defence tracking back, Ainscough has not been any better in defence, but probably has been slightly worse.

Roberts did well in attack, he is different to Ainscough, i would prefer Ainscough to play but having said that both make errors and perhaps Roberts contributes more in defence and still has acceptable go forward.

I think that Ainscough's try scoring record this year has been greatly helped by playing on the left wing. Richards is now up to 12 Sl tries.

I think a lot of people of very unfair on Roberts, I think he has improved as the season has gone on. Riddell still flatters to deceive and I actually thought Fielden had a good game today.

Richards on the left wing:

Played 9
Tries 11

And its a tough thing, but one I fully agree with.

he s SH@T

Insightful. Care to add any detail to that

But lets not let that FACT get in the way