Re: Salford : Sat May 13, 2017 8:25 am  

Christ, everyone was on the gin last night!

Re: Salford : Sat May 13, 2017 8:26 am  

TheButcher wrote:

It says a lot about a set fans when the performance is ignored in favour of 'Cheating the cap', 'No fans', 'Mk is a bell-end'. Quite pathetic.

It wasn't ignored there reacting to the bellend fan as you well know

Re: Salford : Sat May 13, 2017 8:30 am  

Full credit to you guys. You played exactly as you would expect a Tim Sheens coached side to do in that first half. Very few errors meaning a high completion rate, coupled with a good long kicking game from Abdull and Elis. We struggled to go with you in that first 40. However, when we picked up the pace towards the end of the 1st half (Brining and Kopczak had a huge part to play in that), you started to lose the ruck speed and we went straight down the middle making metres each time.

Thought your 2 scrum tries were well worked. (Lunt was outstanding in that 1st half). 2nd try was obstruction, but think it was a case of seeing what you can get away with and if the ref doesn't see it then it's to your advantage.

Thought your supporters were loud, helped make a decent atmosphere and outsung us in that 1st half, admittedly we didn't have much to shout about at that point. Extremely disappointing to hear though that our club mascot was attacked by a group of your "supporters" in the fans bar prior to the game. The guy might be dressed as our owner, but is still just a fan doing a job trying to engage with the kids

You guys are a SL club in waiting and it will be interesting to see how you progress under Sheens over the next few years. Good luck for the rest of the season and see you next year in SL

Re: Salford : Sat May 13, 2017 8:40 am  

fun time frankie wrote:

I don't think there's any bitterness it was quite a normal thread (we did well against a team in form better than some SL sides) kind of thing then one of your nice bloke fans turns up spouting crap and it decends into this we're not Leigh Sheens is a excellent coach over 7000 average at home in the championship ( which you could only dream of ) so as I said no bitterness here and the attitude of both teams seems to be totally different this season

Re-read the posts from Gallanteer, Mox & BF and tell me no bitterness there.

Your lot played really well last night and deserve a lot of plaudits yet some of your fans want to focus on spouting cr@p about salary caps, how Hicks shafted you etc instead of focusing on the positives.

Btw, someone posted something about Josh Jones being along the lines of "a dirty grub". Never had a disciplinary issue with us so wondered where this came from as he's always just been a really hard working, tough grafter in a Salford shirt.

Re: Salford : Sat May 13, 2017 9:06 am  

TheButcher wrote:

It says a lot about a set fans when the performance is ignored in favour of 'Cheating the cap', 'No fans', 'Mk is a bell-end'. Quite pathetic.

I responded in kind to the posters from your club.
The above 3 points are accurate though.
We gave you a very good game. You are well coached. Watson was well schooled by Sheens in his time there.
Brining was your best player and changed the game. You scored 18 points with him on the pitch. 6 points in the last 25 minutes destroys the we tired argument.
Rodney Trotter's interpretation of the ruck favoured only one side.

Re: Salford : Sat May 13, 2017 9:10 am  

reds89 wrote:

Full credit to you guys. You played exactly as you would expect a Tim Sheens coached side to do in that first half. Very few errors meaning a high completion rate, coupled with a good long kicking game from Abdull and Elis. We struggled to go with you in that first 40. However, when we picked up the pace towards the end of the 1st half (Brining and Kopczak had a huge part to play in that), you started to lose the ruck speed and we went straight down the middle making metres each time.

Thought your 2 scrum tries were well worked. (Lunt was outstanding in that 1st half). 2nd try was obstruction, but think it was a case of seeing what you can get away with and if the ref doesn't see it then it's to your advantage.

Thought your supporters were loud, helped make a decent atmosphere and outsung us in that 1st half, admittedly we didn't have much to shout about at that point. Extremely disappointing to hear though that our club mascot was attacked by a group of your "supporters" in the fans bar prior to the game. The guy might be dressed as our owner, but is still just a fan doing a job trying to engage with the kids

You guys are a SL club in waiting and it will be interesting to see how you progress under Sheens over the next few years. Good luck for the rest of the season and see you next year in SL

I was there from 6:45 in the bar, didn't witness any trouble with the mascot. It was light hearted banter, he was pretending to drop a goal..didnt see any malice.
But ...finally a sensible post. Thank you reds89.
I was starting to lose my sanity reading the rest of the posts..

Re: Salford : Sat May 13, 2017 9:15 am  

reds89 wrote:

Full credit to you guys. You played exactly as you would expect a Tim Sheens coached side to do in that first half. Very few errors meaning a high completion rate, coupled with a good long kicking game from Abdull and Elis. We struggled to go with you in that first 40. However, when we picked up the pace towards the end of the 1st half (Brining and Kopczak had a huge part to play in that), you started to lose the ruck speed and we went straight down the middle making metres each time.

Thought your 2 scrum tries were well worked. (Lunt was outstanding in that 1st half). 2nd try was obstruction, but think it was a case of seeing what you can get away with and if the ref doesn't see it then it's to your advantage.

Thought your supporters were loud, helped make a decent atmosphere and outsung us in that 1st half, admittedly we didn't have much to shout about at that point. Extremely disappointing to hear though that our club mascot was attacked by a group of your "supporters" in the fans bar prior to the game. The guy might be dressed as our owner, but is still just a fan doing a job trying to engage with the kids

You guys are a SL club in waiting and it will be interesting to see how you progress under Sheens over the next few years. Good luck for the rest of the season and see you next year in SL

The voice of an impartial assessment. Brining was quality and got you going forward. He and Lunt were excellent.
I have no beef with Salford fans. I showed and walked with one the way to our ground for the million pound game. He had flown from Bologna that day to be there. I was happy for him afterwards.
All teams have Muppets following them. Unfortunately some of yours thought they could come goading on here.
Just be aware when you do you might not like the response. It's poor form to start squealing when people do.
Bet sale slim isn't........slim.
Good luck to you this year. It's good to see other clubs than the usual 4 doing well.

Re: Salford : Sat May 13, 2017 9:22 am  

Sandro II Terrorista wrote:

Christ, everyone was on the gin last night!

I am neither young enough, rich enough, or well dressed enough to go in a gin bar sir.
If it was the 18th century then I would be able to and I'd be rioting at the gin shop with the rest of the hoy poloy.
Unfortunately a blast of methamphetamine has seen me through the game, the night and helped me be on the same emotional state as our friends from Salford.

Re: Salford : Sat May 13, 2017 9:44 am  

SaleSlim wrote:

Btw Mox, how did you work out Salford were breaking the salary cap if it takes someone with half a brain cell to do it? Did you go halves on a brain cell with BF?

I didn't need to work it out, just go speak to Tony P.

Re: Salford : Sat May 13, 2017 9:48 am  

moxi1 wrote:

I didn't need to work it out, just go speak to Tony P.

The RFL worked it out and deducted them points for doing so.

The shock about that was the RFL 'worked something out'.