I posted earlier on in the week that we've not earned the right to rest half a team. I think today proved that and whilst we have depth, I don't think it's as great as some say.

There's plenty of positives for this side, but there's lots of hard choices that need to be made before we'll be properly challenging for stuff.

After the last few dour years the one thing I wanted at the start of the season was to be entertained and show some attacking flair.

I was certainly entertained and we showed attacking flair. It would be easy to concentrate on the negatives but sod ‘em. I thoroughly enjoyed that. Both teams were obviously tired after the hectic Easter schedule and understandably shipped some soft tries.

I thought Field owed the team that one at the end after two poor passes saw blown match winning tries. Marshall was MOM for me.

Can’t help but think, unless we rest most of the team next week our chances in the semi have gone from not great to very slim indeed.

Reckon we could rest and rotate some for next week but doubt we could do a "Saints".
On the plus side it's a full week after the Wire game to the semi

Not sure if I'm buying into this rest thing.

Ellis, French, Marshall, Thornley, Smith, O'Neill, Singleton, Havard (8 out of 18) have all missed plenty of games this year.

I enjoyed that, last 10 minutes was at times frustrating but a good watch. Crowd a little disappointing considering it was on a Sunday and the last home game for a while

Not a great quality game although there were some moments obviously but a fantastic watch and again a game that should hopefully appeal to the first time viewer.

I think game management was our biggest issue today aside from the bombed opportunities.

Powell and TL pull us around the field and place us in positions at key times and I thought we missed that in a big way today.

Really enjoyable game non the less.

Disagree mate, thought he was a disaster, slow distribution.

That “try” he scored with the most obvious obstruction I’ve ever seen could have cost us the game.

Nobody will like this but now french is more match fit.

6 French
7 Cust
9 O’Neill

14 Smith

When O’Neill needs a breather Cust to 9 for 20/30 mins.

We need French as involved as possible.

add to that at the end when Ellis was his dummy runner on the 5th he hit him and lucky he was able to offload it back, poor decision making

Missed Powell and Tommy, two amazing defenders in positions most teams try to exploit defensively.

O’Neil and Smith need to improve that aspect and I’m sure they will with time.

Yep good call that was another one.

Thought Brodie Croft was outstanding for Salford.

Yep Brodie Croft was outstanding, but......

He bombed a try in the first half with a pass equally as poor as Fields to Marshall in the 2nd, and Fields seemed to get a bit of stick for his passing.

The pass to Bevan was ok, Bevan really should have taken it.

I thought we played a little too conservative at times and didn't exploit French and Field enough - they basically had to make their own magic happen.

However, it was the 3rd game with very few rested so can't be too critical.

Very entertaining and great game for C4. I hope Fields trys French's amazing break and the overall attacking play from Salford will pull in a few more casual observers.


shorrocks passing at dummy half is too pedestrian and not something we should persist with imo. Better to move Cust to 9 and Field to 6 to keep our better players involved more often when/if O'Neil goes off.

I’m not a fan of switching key positions during a game. French is a real conundrum though. We struggled to get him involved today.

I don’t want to see Field moved from FB, firstly he is playing too well there, secondly I have concerns over his passing if he plays in the halves.

I don’t believe French is a stand off in the way we use halves with one on each side.

I think Kevin Brown hinted at one could be a solution, not sure exactly how it would work though.