I thought that other than in their 20 it was pretty good imo. The forwards went well (I much prefare Radford at prop), the defence was pretty good (hell there was even a bit of line speed) and the effort was much better imo. However it was the same old story of looking clueless on the oppositions line. I think Salford are not getting the credit they deserve because they played well, however there are not many other teams that we would have beaten. Probably only Celtic, Bradford and Rovers.

So in summary, an improvement but we need to learn how to cross the line once in a while or else we won't be winning too many more.

I think i must have seen things differently. I saw the intention last night from the 1st touch of the game to rectify the issues weve had all season.
IMO we:
-moved away from 5 drives and a kick, even though it was slow and laboured its a step in the right direction
-showed good line speed in defence lead excellently by Radford and Berrigan
-fought to get up for a ptb, and if it werent for the ref allowing salford to get away with murder we would have done it more too
-moved away from starting with 3 props. I'd have still rather Whiting played 13 but thought we looked more balanced with Tickle there.
-used our interchanges better. Would have still not had 2 hookers on the bench but players were better used imo

Still loads to work on but i did see positive signs last night for the first time all season. (it was almost like either Agar wasnt in charge last night or it was his last desperate throw of the dice)

Agree 100%. (the ironic thing however is that Radford has always played as a prop. Just the psychological impact previously of us expecting different things from someone named at 13)

He justified his selection in that role in front of Whiting for me. However Tickle never justified why he was selected at 13 in front of Whiting for me.

Reading through this thread, can I take it that Thorman's short-lived renaissance following the Leeds debacle is well and truly over?

There never was one for me. He is an embarrassment and as you well know I don't normally go in for individual player slagging.

He was poor again last night, in fact I can't believe he wasn't subbed earlier than he was. He literally runs into the players he's passing too. I did notice last night on one last tackle play, he put in a kick which went straight to Whilshire and Berrigan just looked at him with total disbelief at what he'd done.

Probably surprised he was still on the pitch like all of us.

Pretty much.

I'm sure one of his penalty kicks to touch actually went zero yards forward. And that was in our own half.

Pretty much. I'd go Berro at 7, Horne 6, Whiting 13.

Bloody hell I'd forgotten about that dismal effort. TBH I don't know why we bother with penalty kicks to touch anymore we might as well just take a tap. Thorman must have his own personel micro climate because he always appears to be playing into a gale force wind.