How is it we just turn up to some games & don't bother tackling - time & again we seemed to have two tacklers, both going high, not stopping the man and then letting them offload?



I have great admiration for Dan Holdsworth's skills as a player, but he's no captain - for me, the organiser on the field who should be captain is Matty Smith.



Can't agree with earlier post re Cashmere, I thought his first spell in the first half was pedestrian



No imigaination, no cutting edge tonight - soething like 30 tackles oin their half with one player sin binned and we still can't score - POOR



All in all - what a disappointment tonight

Not exactly a big draw for the paying spectators either .



Watched most of it on Sky , and the Crusaders were the better of the two teams.

big bogey side of ours crusaders are turning out to be!,complete boredom all night,and just watching the replay again on sky plus is even worse!!!when are we going to get a proper run going?jewit not good enough for s/l,smith has a terrible game,houldsworth great player but no skipper!,wild and cash easily best performers tonight,very hard game facing us next week!!!COME ON RED MEN GET BACK ON IT!...samut was great for them and fair play they were just the better side out of 2 very average sides in front of the cameras!!

Can't see Salford paying out the rest of Basil's contract and as a result having to pay off McRae, can you?



As for the game tonight, I thought Salford had more than enough ball to win it, despite the below-par performance. The amount of times that you had an overlap down your left wing but instead insisted on going right from dummy half was criminal. After some of Ratchford's performances in recent weeks I felt sorry for the lad being marooned at centre, and his inexperience in that situation was shown when he threw an early ball to Broughton when attacking two-on-one instead of drawing the man and putting Broughton in at the corner.



Cashmere had a decent game but Sammut had a touch of class that you couldn't see coming from Salford, and Crusaders' number 11 (Hep Cahill?) worked his nads off all night.

Well you might be wrong on two counts there - think Basil would have the good sense to have a clause put in his contract `that if a Super league club etc ...........` & the other thing is that Mr McRae may become the highest paid gardener since Charlie Dimmock. Dont forget also that Wilkie is now a Doctor as well so he may be able to sign Shaun off for another couple of months.

The whisper is that Basil is more likely to be heading for Widnes anyway. Theoretically a bigger chequebook thanks to O'Connor. If he was going to go to Salford then I'd have thought it would have happened when McRae was on the ropes last season.

It was going to come to an end sooner or later I just can't see why people thought we had a god given right to win today. Crusaders have ed us in the last 5-6 games tonight was going to be no different!!!

No urgency. No enthusiasm and no inventiveness in attack. I couldn't agree more. The hard work was there in defense and but when something isn't working as always we persit on doing it time after time. We lack good "decision" makers, with regards to applying pressure, offloads, wing play and kicking. DJ is relied upon too much. Adamson put in a MOM performance. And was has turned a corner going forward. Better yardage. Freaky fitness level and kept Thomas under wraps all night. A few try saving tackles and was unlucky not to get over in the second half.



Any good backroom staff would have built on our last 2 performances. No wonder we've not put 3 wins together for 5 years.



Boyle is a breath of fresh air too and is miles ahead of Jewitt in terms of tackle busts. Boyle always seems to hit a good line. The efforts there from Jewitt but compared when he's trying to hit the line like Cashmere he's getting pushed back and turned over.



Im not giving up by anymeans. If Harlequins beat Bradford and Warrington beat Catalans tommorrow we'll still sit in 9th. And we bring Cas back down to earth were still contenders for a mid season spot in 8th.



I think the lads will be more determined than disheartend from tonights performance and it will G them up for next week. It wasn't a thrashing and we've seen a definate improvement since round 1. Onwards and upwards I Say.

I think people expected us to get on a roll. And we didn't get battered tonight. We got ground down by a team who had lost there last 6 and determined to win. We've played them at the wrong time again. Round 1 they had a point to prove. And now tonight they were determined not to lose there 7th on the bounce.

Yeah I know exactly what people expected all i'm saying is never expect anything from Salford!

I'll consider that £20 saved

Beaten by basic rugby. Forwards couldn't get on top and our 'flair' players failed to make a break all night. The kicking game was awful.



The Crusaders were there for the taking and we simply couldn't come up with another quality performance. We could win at Cas next week or concede 50. The joy of being a Reds supporter!