: Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:51 pm  

draw confidence and reassurance from Castleford. we were woeful to say the least for the first 2 thirds of last season, and Terry Matterosn came in for some serious flack. however, as the we entered the final third of the season we were one of the top form sides (believe it or not we we in better form than many in the play offs).

this season we have receruited better (although you learnt of your SL status at the same time as us supposidly and should in theory recruited just as well as us) and look like we're a good mid table side capable of challenging for 6th spot.

: Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:39 pm  

LETS KEEP THE FAITH , THE SLUG WILL COME GOOD AND SO WILL THE TEAM WE ALL NEED TO STAND STRONG

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:13 am  

Michigan red wrote:

I agree, who's going to sign my petition for compulsory use of punctuation to make reading your posts easier .

, .

me

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:21 am  

zandor46 wrote:

If this was football he would have gone ages ago, and it wouldn't have mattered how much it would have cost, because if the manager is costing you money and stopping you from progressing further, and not wining, and pottentially losing your players confidence, and not gaining any more fans, i mean there giving away tickets for christs sake, how many more signs do you need to show you that this club needs to take drastic steps now, before its to late before this club ends up back in NL1, after being give the chance to grow iinto the club that it should be, i know we have three years, but if we keep saying that then where just going to be throwing money away, and letting the rot get an even better hold of the club than it already has, we need somebody i dont know who so dont ask me, to get a hold of this team and undo the mess mcrae has made, your gonna say but the managment has something to do with it, yes but its mcrae who says who goes were and who plays on match days.

you starting a petition i'm on it

is this better for you

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:24 am  

david caesar wrote:

Cas were a lot better than us at this same stage last years - as I recall they beat Leeds and Saints early on in the season so you cannot compare the 2 clubs mate

Course you can IIRC they were bottom for all but a couple of weeks

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:05 pm  

roversmad wrote:

Course you can IIRC they were bottom for all but a couple of weeks

They may well have been, but they won 7 games.
We will never do this on present form.
They also have a good coach although most of the Cas fans appear not to think this.
They get better crowds so can pay more to players and hence get a better standard.
Overall you can not compare the two clubs.

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:15 pm  

Ridiculous suggestion.
Get behind him,for heavens sake.
Pathetic !

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:30 pm  

Prestwich Red wrote:

They may well have been, but they won 7 games.
We will never do this on present form.
They also have a good coach although most of the Cas fans appear not to think this.
They get better crowds so can pay more to players and hence get a better standard.
Overall you can not compare the two clubs.

yes...out off 27
youve only played 6

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:10 pm  

GT wrote:

And how many football clubs who chop and change their managers constantly find success? Look at city, they've had a revolving door on the managers office for a while and the lack of stability has brought them nothing. Compare and contrast with United, they stuck with Ferguson even though results were crap, the club was going nowhere and the fans were calling for his head. That stability behind the scenes, the patience from the board and giving his plans time to settle and work paid dividends.

Sacking the manager/coach isn't always the golden answer it first seems. We sacked Harrison and nothing changed - in fact, it became quite clear at the end of that season that it was down to the players. Would getting rid of McRae be any different? I doubt it. Not to mention there's not really anyone out there who could/would be willing to come in and change things for the better.

Having watched Salford since 1946 some of the contributors do worry me with what they are expecting from the club this season, just look at the facts-

(1)Most clubs this season, if not all of them have several hundred thousand pounds extra on their salary cap than we do.

(2)The coach can only spend the amount of money within the salary cap, so expecting SM to get the same with our cap as say HKR, Hull, Bradford, Catalans etc do with theirs is simply not on.

(3)Shaun McRae has a longish contract that, if he is still in the position should -
(a) Take us into the new stadium.
(b) Hopefully improve our performances and consequently our attendances.
(c)Keep us in Superleague.

I personally would have liked to have retained Karl Harrison but the club decided not to.

I personally feel that Shaun McRae has made some strange decisions that as a supporter I cannot understand but Karl Harrison did the same.

I also feel that some supporters whilst being free to express their feelings over the recent results go well over the limit in what they expect to happen and some also make themselves foolish in the way that they criticize the club, the directors, the players and the coaching and occassionally the admin staff.

The players or some players have made a rod for their own backs with what happened or did not happen in Florida and if I were the chairman I would not be a happy chappie to have paid out all that money only to be made to look foolish.

I missed the Saints and Wigan games through holidays but when I returned the different views that I heard from several fans was confusing, for example-

Why do we play people out of position(in the Wigan game) ? upon reading the press and listening to comments from the club I find that White, McGilvary and Wilshire are injured.

Some felt that Fitzpatrick had a poor game, some felt that he had a good game.

Some felt that we made Wigan look a better side than they were, others thought that Wigan played well.

As society does nowadays, someone has to be the scapegoat and take the blame and at Salford we are no different with some supporters thinking that it is fashionable to slag off certain people at the club if things are not going as well as they can be.

What will I do? I will still support the club through bad times as well as good, if the club decides to relieve Shaun McRae of his duties I will still support the club, if they keep faith in him I will still support them.

I will not boo the players, insult their family or friends and I will continue to support the club in their efforts to improve things.

: Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:30 pm  

Original Salford City Red - thank you for some sanity on here.

The hysterical stuff that some folk are coming out with, the personal abuse thrown at players, coaches and directors is totally over the top and gets nobody anywhere.

The club has to live within its means or there won't be a club!

Yes the results are disappointing and we all want better but it jus can't happen overnight, and yes I'm worried whether we will (can?) improve, but ranting won't help! Not sure what will, but like you the team will continue to have my support.