Best get spending the Watts money

Are we missing Ellis?

Salford has never been a happy hunting ground for us to be honest . So I don’t think it’s that much of a shock . These are the scrappy fixtures we always seem to fall short on . In Radfords words there will be plenty for us to fix up for next week .

defo plenty

Time for a dressing room lock in for players only.

Bloody hell. One really poor performance and everyone is predicting the end of the world.

I'm surprised bumpy isn't foul-mouthing everyone for being so negative!

seb and bumpy having a party

Not the end of the world
We didn’t score in the 2nd half
MENTALLY - where are we at ?
HUll fans have patience as there’s a way to go
But winning the GF ?
You have to be a great side for 90% of the season
And we’ve had 20% of it already

Awful lot of rugby still to play this year. Salford aren't even a bad team. In my opinion theyre stronger than Widnes, Huddersfield, Catalans and Rovers. So to lose to them when we have arguably our 3 best players missing (plus Paea) isn't the end of the world. We do need to improve quick,but we have some good fixtures coming up now.

We were dominated in the forwards.Didnt do enough first half when we had the wind at our backs and plenty of possession.
Again our errors and penalties hand the game to our opponents.
We are just not improving our attack in the opposition 20 and dicipline continues to be a big problem

That was awful. Struggling to think of a game in the last couple of years to rival it, maybe the lock in at Widnes one. Of course the absence of many of the pack and Kelly was a factor but still. Last tackle options were just awful - either a bomb or turning it over on halfway. A Middle 8s performance that and with Watts gone and Sika, Houghton, Paea all out we’re in trouble.

When we played against St,George (without Ellis) we looked like we could have a blinding season if we stuck to what we can do well and not feck about making the same old ridiculous errors and giving away dumb penalties.
We can't know really can we, he could have being injured anyhow (likely) he hasn't being much of a threat going forward since he joined us, great leader, very good defender but not on the pitch that much.
What is missing is some co-ordinated effort in terms of mental preparation, we simply make the same errors all the time and play dumb rugby and sound all over the shop atm.
Confidence could be lacking, certainly need to scrap a win somewhere.

Was there an easier away fixture this season on paper based on this weeks factors ?

As if it wasnt bad enough already we have gone behind Rovers in the table. Oh the shame of it all.

I'm not going to get too worried yet. Its an awfully long season and I am confident that when Houghton and Kelly are back firing and the weather improves we will see a big upturn, but we have to start picking up some results soon otherwise there is just going to be too much to do. Next week is one of those games where I couldnt care less how we play, we just need a win.

big game next week, hope we have Kelly back, rovers week after, maybe Houghton paea back ?

Absolute disgraceful result and that is probably the top four gone already IMO. Really cant see us losing only 5/6 games over the next 24 games.

Thought we had a poor pre season and the trip to Aus has being disruptive IMO.

1 Try from a kick against a really bad salford side says it all. Thought we would have learned from last season about starting slow, wont get away with it again.

saving ourselfs for a treble CC

2 wins from 6. 4 away losses on the bounce. More injuries by the sounds of it. Not much to be positive about really.

Makes you wonder if all the players were behind the decision to bin watts

Looks like we will lose Shaul next week
Might be better on the attack having Kelly back and Connor linking from full back
Whatever we need the points.
Sneyds kicking has gone to pot and needs to improve and Minichello looks to me that he is playing with an injury.
A lot of work to do on attack in the opposition 20.We rely too much on a kick to the corner

No shame at all, Sheens said they’re targeting Top 4 internally.

We just don't score enough tries. Other than the 6 we scored against a poor huddersfield we've clocked up 2, 3, 2, 3, 1 in the 5 games since. If it's not a piece of individual skill or a kick, we have very little to offer in the opposition 20. Desperate for a new attacking coach.

Cant argue with too much of that apart from your top 4 calculations. In the last two season 16 wins would have got you a top 4 spot. Lets air on the side of caution and say we are going to need 17 this time. That means we need to win 15/24. Still very achieveable. Win the next 3 and that becomes 12/21. Which suddenly seems alot more straight forward.

As I said earlier, no reason to panic yet, but we need to start putting some results together very soon.

I doubt the players had any say in Watts moving on
Seems to be purely a Radford decision backed by Adam Pearson.
Trouble is £100,000 sounds a lot but we cant replace the quality of Watts for that money