02 May Salford City Reds KC Stadium 9,869 W 82 - 6

Wouldn't say we were exceptional in attack last week at all. We just had a lot of possesion and it showed. We got two lucky tries from kicks which could easily have been diffused. Manu's try was just a hard run from a pass from the ptb. In fact the only well worked try in the 2nd half was the Turner one which came from a lovely offload from Moa.

I am afraid that no matter how rose tinted your specs are you cannot class that as exceptional.

spot on

Do you really believe that was exceptional??

Of course he doesn't, he's just following the RULEs

Does it make you feel bad that a guy who you believe works at McDonalds proved you wrong?

I think we've scored some exceptional tries but on the whole our attack lacks consistency and like smoeone mentioned we don't really have the calibre of backs to be exceptional. We've scored some really good tries, much better than last year but there's still room for improvement. I'd just hoping we're leaving our best attacking performances untill it really matters.

I'd not really be that bothered even if he had. It's full of graduates in there

So you still stand by your comment that it's a fact that "the top sides can stick 50 and 60 points on the poorer sides while we huff and puff to put 20 on them."?

We can't even be consistent during the same match. Compare the last 30 minutes of the Saints match with the preceding 30 minutes. You wouldn't think you were watching the same team.



Mind you, Saints fans could probably say the same.

Yes

Most of the sides (if not all) in the top 8 have scored 50 points at least once this season other than us.

Do you think we're one of the best attacking sides in SL?

No, I think we score some nice tries however with a side that probably spends quite a bit more on it's pack than backs, we play to our strengths and rightly so.

We have the 6th best attack this year, and are about 4 -5 points per game behind Leeds and Hudds. Success previous to the last 2 years tended to be built on an ability to scrap out wins in tight games, I would be happy to see this again and for us to be challenging for honours at the end of the season.

You're best off not talking to him mate. He's just a tool that cannot possibly be wrong!! If you say anything he doesn't agree with you are either uneducated or work at mcdonalds, maybe he's just compensating for his sad life so tries to act the clever big man on an Internet forum!!
He drew the picture on his avatar himself you know, clever boy Jake!!

From what I remember we beat Salford 82 - 6, Widnes 74 - 10, Beat by Leeds and then beat Cas 54 - 10 all in the space of 4 games. If my memory serves me right?

That was when we was one of the best attacking teams in the comp.

Didn't we score on 3 consecutive sets at one point in that Salford game? I seem to remember a spell where we went in from the kick off more than once.

Not sure tbh mate, but I'm quite tempted to get the 2004 season review out now and have a look

I think you are right. I have list somewhere of the tries and times. I also seem to remember Shaun Briscoe scoring a hat trick in five minutes either side of half time, something like 37 mins, 40 mins and 42 mins.

We are emerging from rock bottom after 2 poor seasons. Some of last night's tries resulted from superb rugby. We are not as good as the top sides yet but are moving in the right direction. Having 2 halves on the pitch and not just one would be the next major step. Wingers flying in at the corner, handling and backing up. Exciting individual running. Wire ? Saints ? Wigan ? No Hull against Salford last night. We are not there yet but are improving. Like I said when the moans are about how the tries are being scored that's a sign that clear improvement has been made. Are we the finished article ? No - some way off. But someone somewhere will still be claiming we're playing 5 drives and a kick. And we haven't done that all season.

Just heard from a very good source that Tickle is definitely leaving us at end of his contract. Probably expected but nonetheless. His kicking has been top notch of late and will be missed, has won us games this year.

Gutted. Agar alluded to Tickle's children being in the North West and the decision being heavily influenced by personal factors on RH last night. Will be a massive miss for us. The important thing as has been said on here before though is to avoid another Carvell situation, so at least now the recruitment process can move on and Danny can leave us with big thanks and on good terms.

To be honest, I'm more worried about his goal kicking than anything else. We have options in the back row and, as good as Tickle is, we can cover his absence in that regard. I suppose Fitz could take over if he's staying, but we'll be struggling if he gets injured.

He will leave the KC with his head held high and be remembered well by all I am sure.
Good player YES!
Great player NO
Great goal kicker YES

i wonder who we will sign then...cusack back to aus, tickle leaving and rumour is radford leaving to coach union

i don't think we have any spare quotas next year with fitz & berro probably staying so we'll most likely sign an english forward and also a back from ???