Re: Relegation Battle : Wed Feb 09, 2022 5:07 pm  

BarnsleyGull wrote:

Wilkin does my tree in and makes my pi*s boil.

He was a decent player at Saints, but then again who wouldn't be, he was a grub on the field and for me a grub off it as well.

Re: Relegation Battle : Fri Feb 11, 2022 9:42 pm  

vastman wrote:

No they don’t have plenty of quality, I don’t know where people are getting this from!

Sorry mate but it’s not true. They have some quality no doubt but after the first 15 they have wry little and absolute nothing after that, no reserves at all. This by the way is not just my opinion but I’m reliably informed the opinion of their coach.

It wouldn’t take much of an injury crisis to totally derail them.

They have 27 players of greatly varying quality, that’s it, 27 players for a season. We have 33 and some consider that thin.

So yeah they will do ok if they have no more than one injury at a time, good luck on that one.

Salford getting a good and fairly easy win way at a packed cas who would of thought....

Re: Relegation Battle : Fri Feb 11, 2022 9:53 pm  

Very surprised at that result. Thought a full house at home would have seen Cas through.

Re: Relegation Battle : Fri Feb 11, 2022 11:35 pm  

wakeytrin wrote:

Very surprised at that result. Thought a full house at home would have seen Cas through.

From what I hear, many in attendance were drawn there under false pretences.

Lots of people new to the venue were heard asking "where is the bowl to throw our keys in?"

[PopTart]

Re: Relegation Battle : Fri Feb 11, 2022 11:50 pm  

Luppylad wrote:

Salford getting a good and fairly easy win way at a packed cas who would of thought....

I guess Vasty is trying to say they won't last the season but it only takes 17 if you can get them all out there.
Salford will surprise a lot this season.
Half backs are top quality.

Re: Relegation Battle : Sat Feb 12, 2022 2:21 am  

PopTart wrote:

I guess Vasty is trying to say they won't last the season but it only takes 17 if you can get them all out there.
Salford will surprise a lot this season.
Half backs are top quality.

All the backs were quality. They didn't get out of their own half for the 1st 10 minutes as there forwards were dominated by Cas but they started attacking from their own half with the backs out wide to great effect a bit like Cas in 2017. Wonder if thats any thing to do with their assistant coach?

Re: Relegation Battle : Sat Feb 12, 2022 5:43 am  

Just watched the highlights on sky and to be fair both sides came up with some quality tries ,obviously not privy to the whole game and still early door for both teams ,but on this showing/result Salford are off to a flier .

Re: Relegation Battle : Sat Feb 12, 2022 8:27 am  

Luppylad wrote:

Salford getting a good and fairly easy win way at a packed cas who would of thought....

Come and see me again when injuries hit, you are a sportsman and you know that it’s a marathon not a sprint.

They are like we were in 2019, if we could have kept that starting 17 all season we could have gone the distance but once the injuries set in you know what happened.

I don’t know yet if our starting 17 is as good as Salford but I know we have more depth.

That said it’s a good win and a bad start for Cas I must admit but easy is pushing it

We shall see.

Re: Relegation Battle : Sat Feb 12, 2022 9:33 am  

Salford have the opportunity to put a number of wins together before they meet one of the so called top teams.

Re: Relegation Battle : Sat Feb 12, 2022 9:48 am  

lampyboy wrote:

Salford have the opportunity to put a number of wins together before they meet one of the so called top teams.

That's a good point, us on the other hand play all the top teams first, and by the time we get round to playing the perceived lesser teams where we could assume to win some, we might be crippled with injuries.