Re: CCF | Salford Red Devils (W) : Sun Oct 18, 2020 6:17 pm  

Trebor1 wrote:

Winning breeds winning. The whole squad will have a lot more self belief now and they will have gotten huge experience from the final and getting over the winning line. It will set them up very well for the years ahead it’s a massive boost for the entire club.

The opposite can also be true, losing breeds losing. Take warrington, I think not getting over the line in the grand final has held them back, it get's the monkey off the back and affects the psyche of the club.

Re: CCF | Salford Red Devils (W) : Sun Oct 18, 2020 8:01 pm  

As an aside it was strange that there wasn't a single 6 again call for a ruck infringement yesterday. There were certainly cases.

Re: CCF | Salford Red Devils (W) : Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:46 am  

Seth wrote:

As an aside it was strange that there wasn't a single 6 again call for a ruck infringement yesterday. There were certainly cases.

I thought that. Very strange

Re: CCF | Salford Red Devils (W) : Mon Oct 19, 2020 7:14 am  

There was at least 1 against Leeds ,
The fact was the game was reffed differently to any other game since lockdown

Re: CCF | Salford Red Devils (W) : Mon Oct 19, 2020 7:26 am  

Good solid performance all round.
Myler for me edged MoM ahead of Prior and Ava.
Why anyone can have a go at Handley god only knows.
He constantly gets on the scoresheet.
Briscoe for all his faults this year and last had a decent game but our SR were pretty much not on their game for me.
Gotcha saying Myler had a poor game is more about wanting Walker in the team I guess.
The only thing I feel Agar got wrong was the selection of Sutcliffe over Smith and it looks like he was going for pace on the bench as opposed for bulk which almost backfired when Cuthbertson went off.
Thought Salford were unlucky to be penalised when incorrect play the ball from Pauli Pauli as it`s not as if it doesn`t happen a fair bit of the time anyway.
Saying that their try came from the 2nd knock on by Salford that should have been a Leeds ball and not back to the original first knock on.
Evalds the pick of the Salford players.

Re: CCF | Salford Red Devils (W) : Mon Oct 19, 2020 7:50 am  

chapylad wrote:

Good solid performance all round.
Myler for me edged MoM ahead of Prior and Ava.
Why anyone can have a go at Handley god only knows.
He constantly gets on the scoresheet.
Briscoe for all his faults this year and last had a decent game but our SR were pretty much not on their game for me.
Gotcha saying Myler had a poor game is more about wanting Walker in the team I guess.
The only thing I feel Agar got wrong was the selection of Sutcliffe over Smith and it looks like he was going for pace on the bench as opposed for bulk which almost backfired when Cuthbertson went off.
Thought Salford were unlucky to be penalised when incorrect play the ball from Pauli Pauli as it`s not as if it doesn`t happen a fair bit of the time anyway.
Saying that their try came from the 2nd knock on by Salford that should have been a Leeds ball and not back to the original first knock on.
Evalds the pick of the Salford players.

Agree with all the above other than i thought Mellor had a strong game.

Re: CCF | Salford Red Devils (W) : Mon Oct 19, 2020 8:29 am  

Good analysis for me. Totally agree re the selection almost backfiring: I can only guess that Agar wanted more cover in the back line and A Sutcliffe fitted the bill. Cuthbo getting injured was just bad luck but I thought we didn't have as strong a presence down centre field as we could have, which caused us to struggle more than we did against Wigan.

We did look the better side throughout for me to be fair though. Salford were just incredibly tenacious and put some very smart team moves together. With some better execution they'd have had us; more than one clean break with numbers which they absolutely killed (with some great vision from our D to disrupt).

Evalds very good, I thought Watkins was excellent for them too. Brown was tricky. Mossop targeted big Mik all game and tried to put him off with some real aggression. Just goes to show though how Oledski has come on and garnered respect from opposition this year. Their big units were starting to cause us problems late game too.

Maybe not a classic on absolute quality (although there were plenty of quality moments), but a real classic in terms of competitiveness and enjoyment.

Re: CCF | Salford Red Devils (W) : Mon Oct 19, 2020 9:27 am  

ploinerrhino wrote:

There was at least 1 against Leeds ,
The fact was the game was reffed differently to any other game since lockdown

finals usually are

Re: CCF | Salford Red Devils (W) : Mon Oct 19, 2020 10:08 am  

The Eagle wrote:

Really pleased to get the win. It's great for the club, and shows we're going about our business quite well.

What I think is strange is that the golden generation had to have so many attempts to get a challenge cup win. The new generation have done it first time out.

Still plenty to do before we can consider ourselves a top team, but this is a great bonus.

No disrespect to Salford but Leeds won it in the semi against Wigan. Not just the results but the strength of the performance.

So glad we sneaked it, but you could see the belief even though they were playing poorly second half, I was always confident.

On an aside, Watkins is still all class. Great hands, great feet.

Re: CCF | Salford Red Devils (W) : Mon Oct 19, 2020 10:33 am  

doc-rhino wrote:

finals usually are

Correct