any other club would have shown macrae the door yonks ago,he seems to have a very good relationship with ric flare that seems to work in his favour, and still amazes me how many fans he has backing him/getting behind him etc......who honestlt on here thinks he is the man to take the club forward to the next level and be our head coach when we move to barton?????

I honestly think it is the move to Barton which will see a new coach that will try and move you forward. Maybe your board see any time at the Willows as dead money and would rather spend when you can attract bigger crowds? They know the players need to bond together so are spending there but a coach can be brought in when the right one is available. A fair few are off contract in Aus at the end of this NRL season so possibly this is what they are waiting for??

Ric Flare

19 penalties against us today! I mean 19 ffs what a joke how are we expected to compete against a team with a ref like that against us! they scored their try's on the back of nearly every successive penalty they were given, we were playing with 12 men for long periods of the game, and even conceded a penalty when we had possession we never had a chance to do anything today,



Child you absolute farce of a ref! I mean to give 19 pens against a team in a friendly I dread to think about a proper full blooded game, what will that be 38 penalties and 4 sending off's?



Well done HULL KR you were good but I think any team with that amount of possession and field territory would of easily won today.

The only way I could explain how bad the ref was today is if you imagine Ricky Hatton fighting while the ref ties his arms up and lets the other fighter take unlimited shots at him, there was just no chance of us winning, Imo referees should be seen never heard, but half these bloody clowns in SL just want to be in the limelight, if they want to be known throughout the RL world they should of tried playing rugby not being a whistle happy referee, sorry Hull KR I hope we will show you a tougher game next time without the clown in the middle blowing his whistle and sending players off because of petty things like swearing!



RANT OVER!

The chairman has told the squad, what this season means for the club,after to-day we know they mite not have

been listening. but the club should know its not only about improving the squad,Its also about having the right man

at the helm, they think they have,the fans or most of us think they have not.Mr Mcrae is past is sell by date

I hope I am wrong,but I don.t think we will finish in the top eight, because of that,and with the squad we have

got this season,that would be a tragedy, I don.t think they will sack the coach, so we have to hope the board are

right,and we are wrong,

SM is a laughing stock he's nothing more than a commentator. Correct players do not respect him FACT we have all seen numerous players response at FR meeting when they mention his coaching style or work ethic. Worrying about the coaching te now. SM already made my point. MA great player but not worked with any world class coaches. PV been out of work for 12 months wonder why? Eccles not 100% sure but again only ever work with our academy and if was learning off haigh, well that would not be much.





Again sorry for the complaints but 4 new season tickets purchased (2 adults 2kids) recently and still my hard earned money is wasted on a totally inept coaching team!!!!!!





Thoughts?

I still think our squad is leaps and bounds beyond yours though mate.

The most important signing ANY club will ever make is always the coach. That's coming from a Wigan fan who saw a very poorly coached Wigan squad be turned into Super League champions in one off-season by Mike Maguire.



Ironically though, Brian Noble would do a superb job at Salford for what you want to achieve this season. He'd take you into the top 8.

TBH you didn't help yourselves today though.

Yes Childs was being a d*** but the amount of gobbing off you gave him will have hardly brought him on your side.

I could be mistaken but it looked like Matty Smith gave him the rounds of the kitchen sink after we scored a try, He went on and on and on, Infact so much so that Dobson had time to place the ball, line it up kick it and actually watch the flags go up with Smith still at it.

Thought your lot could move the ball about well but our defence was never put under any pressure. Sorry to say but cannot see any more good things for you this season... The ref made 6 poor decisions 2 for us and 4 for you but you have big problems with your tactics, The ref not great but not that bad

From what I have heard the ref was terrible, but at the end of the day its a friendly. There is no need at this stage to be saying 'McRea Out', He has assembled the best squad we have had at the club in years. Its just a very disappointing start, don't worry things will only get better!

Bingo for me mate.



Yes it's easy to have a go at the ref & TBH I thought we had some very soft pens against us today. However, we also consistently infringed the rules of the game & surprise, surprise if you consistently break the laws of the game you'll consistently get penalised.



It's very easy to start calling for McRae's head after a performance as dreadful as the one that 40/50 of us had to endure this afternoon, however (and I can't believe I'm leaping to his defence here) I fail to believe that his tactics were for our players to consistently give away soft penalties. Nor do I believe that he instructed our team to become ineffectual in defence whenever HKR came within 10 metres of our line. The challenge for him now is to prove to us that now he has a squad with a bit of talent about it that he can take today's horror-show & make sure that we don't have to witness it again.



On a personal level, my partner has pointed out to me how much money I would have spent today & how much better we could have spent that on our daughter's impending arrival. Sadly, she's absolutely right but my point was that this was a vital game to see in order to gauge how close we are in being able to compete in 2 weeks time when the serious business starts. I only hope that I'm completely wrong & our daughter arrives in May to see a Salford side that IS capable of competing at the right half of the table. After the debacle I witnessed today I very seriously doubt it sadly.