The Head Coach has exceeded all expectations in his first year back in SuperLeague.
Give him the credit,please.

Way, way back on here when people were wanting to lynch McRae I suggested that he wasn't the problem, but it was your players. Your players are playing now and they have gotten themselves sorted defensively on the whole (which is where they needed sorting). McRae is a good coach and you'll do well under him so long as your blokes play. You played us off the park last night.

lets not forget we had just as many players out as they did,if not more!

Couldn't make it last night I'm gutted! Why did Smith get sin binned?

he punched someone didn't see who.

Yes an under strength Saints side with about 10 or 12 internationals in it

The papers don't half belittle what we achieve don't they. To be fair there are no excuses from saints.
Quite surreal having watched the game at the JJB on Sky+ this morning hearing the Wigan fans chant SALFORD SALFORD SALFORD. Brought a huge grin to my face.

What an awsome display. was happy at the 20 minute stage when we had seen more flowing rugby from our boys than in the entire 80 mins last week. that's what i pay to see and long may it continue. win, lose or draw I want to see salford playing that style of rugby and entertaining us all.

Bring on the welshies now and lets have another win. Got to turn Cas over the week after aswell as I have a mate from Uni who's a Cas fan. need some revenge for early season hiding.

Come on the REDS

Anyone know who Smith punched?

I didn't see it properly but I didn't think it was really a punch from what I remember. Smith chased down a kick that went dead in-goal and I think Wellens was trying to get up to get the ball to the 20 and Smith was trying to hold him back and there was a bit of handbags. That's how I saw it anyway but someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Its the norm though isnt it? As someone said above, we had Myler, Talau, Fitzpatrick and White out injured last night but I cant remember reading that in this mornings reports.

....... not to mention Turner and Sibbit missing too.

We were depleted.



In all serious though all those players would, if fit, be in the 17 and it must be takien into account when we talk about how good a result that was last night.

Don't forget Parker was out aswell

it was there coaches comments that got me'its the worst we have played in 6 mths'. not Salford out played us....

He also said "We made too many errors and they were better than us." - happy now?

(taken from Saints website)

Spot on mate.

I don't want to pi[size=9.[/sizess on the chips of the victory, but when you take away the emotion of the game and think about it, we played a hell of a lot of pretty poor one man rugby last night. It was our superb commitment and defense that won us the game. Don't get me wrong, a win's a win, but let's not kid ourselves that we were flowing.

I actually thought that we played better in the second half when our defence was awesome, but I must mention our second try what planning and execution straight off the training ground in my opinion.

we were outstanding, that game has to be up there with Leeds away this year as our best performances.... bring on the welsh i say.....


did any1 get a picture of the scoreboard by the way??

i know someone who did will see if he can post it on here.

i got a pic but can't find the cable to connect my phone to my laptop (very frustrating) but if you pm me ur mob no I'll send it on a picture message

Just watching the highlights on Sky Sports News now - only showed 2 of our 4 tries and Offiah giving us zero credit for the win

well thats strange is'nt it ( offiah ) not giving us any credit.

His superstar was not playing therefore we don't exist.

Defence was awesome, when they had 3 sets in our twenty I thought they had to score but we managed to keep them out. I thought Cashmere had possibly his best game in a Salford shirt, making plenty of yards, and I was very impressed with Walton.
Ratchford pretty much ran the show, his kicks (and Malcs for that matter) were finding the deck, instead of going straight down the throat of the fullback or winger, and Wilshere caught everything on the full and looked alot more confident than of late.

I thought Smith got binned for a professional foul (trying to slow the re-start down by knocking the ball out of Wellens's hand) rather than punching him, which was a bit stupid after he'd put so much effort in chasing the kick and putting in a good tackle in the ingoal.

Let's just hope we can build on this, and it not just be a one off.

Offiah is a total slimeball on that Sunday review - can't stand the man...total smug b@$tard !! Oh yeah Saints were minus 3 players,Longy broke his jaw,they bombed 2 tries blah blah blah...f£$%^&g prat !!!

Great perfromance friday night, for the 1st 30 mins thats probably the most switched on ive ever seen a salford team, we damaged saints alot in that period and deserved out lead.

Saints came back into it, fantastic defence by salford thou, Wilshire causing the saints winger to spill the ball as he crashed over was out of this world, he's had a lot of critisim on his "bravery" at times but the effort showed there is what is required by a Superleague Fullback imo, his catching was spot on too so i hope he has turned the corner regarding these too aspects of his game.

We hit Saints with a sucker punch with the Henry try and they we'rnt getting up from that.
The intensity level was there thoughout (it was off the scale in the 1st 30 mins) effort and commitment from every individual player, thank you for your effort we are all very proud.

BUT.....Success is a journey and not a destination, great perfromance but its gone now and we move to celtic next week, no point in running your blood to water against St helens if you go and get your belly tickled at Celtic, i think the performance might have taken a lot out of players playing at such a intensity, i just hope the batterys are recharged and we hit the ground running again Saturday and dont suffer a hangover from fridays performance