: Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:07 pm  

I expected to see a world class, former South Sydney half-back brought to The Willows, and I wasn't disappointed............
















....... 'cos Neil Baker was absolutely fantastic



As for Jeremy Smith, well to date he appears nothing special, but I hope to be proved wrong.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:13 pm  

I hope we have risen to the expected pace after a few games too mate but the manner of these two defeats has shown a lot more than the actual margin of defeat. We seem clueless tackling or with the ball. IMHO Wakey are a good, solid team who will do well and Cas have come on in leaps and bounds and are a decent team BUT we should, as professionals, be competing in games and we most definitely are not.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:45 pm  

I expect to see our players play with pride & passion & apart from the first game I have sadly not.
I expect to finish in the bottom four by the end of the season & will be plesently suprised if we are higher!
I want to see a coach who inspires me or at least makes me feel we are making progress, yet todate even in National league 1 he has not!
I expect to get beat far more than we will win but in them games we get beat at least compete.
I don't expect to see my team third game into the new season look clueless against an average team.

I suppose in my heart of heart I expect to have the same old same old!

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:52 pm  

I expected to lose our first half a dozen games, including a narrow defeat against Celtics, but also including a pasting or two.

Can't believe the reaction on here to 2 poor results.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:14 pm  

I DIDN'T expect us to be above both Bradford AND Warrington....Bonus!!

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:20 pm  

Before the start of the season I felt Salford needed at least three points from the first four games. (Still on course for it.) Purely because it's the 'easiest' extended run of games we have all season. I wasn't expecting much from the defence because Salford didn't do the job well last year either.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:22 pm  

I expect to see with 3 years of no worries of relegation to see what the whole point of this franchising system is all about!A salford team full of young local lads coming through and showing grit and determination and pride in wearing the salford shirt come win or lose!!!
Not a load of has been semi super league standard players using us as a retirement home to keep the pennies coming in until its time for em to get normal warehouse job,when there use by date expires!....and also a load of aussie imports who are deemed not good enough for nrl but in steve simms eyes (after his recruitment holidays) gonna set super league on fire!
As a season ticket holder of 4 seasons(i know some can say longer)ive already paid my way for this year,but if i was a £17 paying spectator every other week i'd get more enjoyment seeing the likes of lewis palfry,spencer, ratchford ,walton and co giving it there all than the misery of the last 2 away games.I like many didn't relly expect us to be coming bck over the hills with the points in the bag,but was seriously tempted to do one at half time in the last 2 games watching the half hearted poop that we have witnessed!
I'd love to know what goes on in mr Mcraes training sessions!!as ero lessons were learnt against cas from the previous week against wakey!

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:34 pm  

Fatboys Limb wrote:

I expected to lose our first half a dozen games, including a narrow defeat against Celtics, but also including a pasting or two.

Can't believe the reaction on here to 2 poor results.

Agreed. I'd go further. I expected most Salford fans to understand that stepping up a division in any sport is difficult and takes time. The squad we had last year didn't become world beaters the minute we got the nod for a franchise. If after ten games we're still looking off the pace then by all means stay away/protest/post angry stuff on here but give McRae and the team a proper go of it first.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:36 pm  

The reaction is nothing to do with two poor results; the reaction is about two shockingly inept performances - we are quite used to defeat.

: Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:46 pm  

tokai wrote:

I DIDN'T expect us to be above both Bradford AND Warrington....Bonus!!

The glass is half-full when you look at it that way!

Is anyone else getting a bit miffed with this "Super League pace" excuse? Whilst I accept that teams in SL do play at a higher tempo than NL, given that a lot of our squad has a lot of SL & NRL experience (as was posted elsewhere) - it shouldn't take that long to get back to the pace we should be at, should it? (considering we were only in NL for 1 year and we have played 3 friendlies against SL opposition which should have helped bridge the 'pace' gap, and whilst not wishing to disrepect Cas & Wakey, they weren't exactly at the top end of the table last year)
Maybe it's just cos I was disappointed that the SL experience we had in our squad last year couldn't dictate games to be played in NL at 'SL pace' given our full-time status