The officials had f*ck all to do with the outcome of the game.

u serious

absolutely shockin the officials where last night

I am serious. The fact that we went to sleep in the second half and Catalans woke up meant we lost the game. Nothing else. And I'm sick to f*cking death of coming on here after defeats and hearing people whinging about the officials and blaming them for the result. We need to look at our own players' performance and attitude above anything else.

the fact is we dint fall asleep in the second half we show the same commitment and passion as in the 1st half and if you have ever played rugby league defending 5 sets one after another with the pack catalans have got would definitely take it out of you... and you name me one player in the 17 man squad whos performance and attitude disappointed you did u not stay till the end and clap the players off u not see the look on there face they was absolutely GUTTED!!!

I totally agree with that we dont perform for 80 minutes fact an official gives penalties for what he sees and are disapline is poor the team and coach only have them selves to blame a good team would move on at 12 nil up and go on and win the game we do th opposite

Oh, OK. We didn't fall asleep. We didn't allow Catalans back into the game. Catalans themselves didn't come good in the second half. It was all down to that nasty referee and his assistants. Thanks for pointing out the error of my ways.

Disagree with you there gt, and im sick to death of these people who are so up there own as**s that they dont know a good game of rugby and say its our falt that we didnt win , if you thought that salford went to sleep in the second half then you need to stay out the willows club or not drink so much, because after most of our games you have chatted some sh*t and usualy i just laugh at your post , but man if you thought that bentham was ok last night then you realy are the prat i think you are. lol

I think the ref had a shocker but I also think that we at least nodded off, if not went to sleep. I think we could, and should, have killed the game off in the first 10-15 minutes of the second half (if not by half time) but we looked too complacent when we had chance to attack - almost as if they believed that Catalan would lnever come back from 12 down.

Did I say it wasn't a good game of rugby? No, I didn't, it was a good game of rugby, very enjoyable aside from the final outcome. As for saying it's our fault we didn't win... We were 14-0 up and in control. And then, suddenly, we looked like a different team. We made mistakes. We took our foot off the pedal. We let Catalans back into it. I'm not saying Bentham was perfect, what I am saying is that you cannot blame them for Salford giving away a 14 point lead. Someone else has already been on this very forum and said that he's seen the game again - and that a lot of the decisions were actually spot on. I've not seen it again myself, so can't comment directly, but it just goes to show how opinion will differ depending on who you support.



Finally, if you find my posts laughable, think I talk sh*t and that I'm a 'prat', then fine. I won't lose any sleep over it. I like to think I give a constructive, unbiased opinion on our performances. And that includes being able to say "we should have won, we didn't, that's our fault, nobody else's." If you'd rather read the other reactionary, one-eyed bullsh*t that flows on here after games (which also seems to fit in with your poorly constructed posts) then feel free, go ahead.



The fact that you've come to the conclusion that I don't know a good game of rugby when I see one speaks volumes.

My poorly constructive posts ......... ok lol

yes we should have won, but we didnt, but if you thought that we fell asleep in the second half then i stand by my first post, as you clearly wasnt watching the second half of the game, the effort was there but the ref made some realy poor decisions witch didnt allow for the game to flow as it did in the first half, so what makes you think that salford fell asleep in the second half, dont just say they fell asleep and leave it at that give us your assesment of the second half ? might make interesting reading

As for someone said that they watched the game again so it must be true the ref was fair

dig deeper my friend.

Well dont

How did we fall asleep? We made mistakes. We didn't put Catalans under any pressure once we were in such a good position. We didn't show the cutting edge we had in the first half. We couldn't get the ball towards their try line. Some of their tries were far too easy, the defence went walkabout on a few occasions. Flat passes. Passes to the ground. Dropping the ball. Not running onto the ball. Being far too slow at the play the ball... Or is all of that the referee's fault? And, of course, we've not touched on the fact that Catalans seemed a completely different side in the second half. They came out looking much, much better and we couldn't cope.



As for someone else saying they watched the game again... My point is that said person wasn't a Salford fan and they had a different viewpoint about the ref - the team you support and whether you've got anything riding on the game or not can affect your view of the officials' performance. It's also very easy to not see what your team's done wrong when you're at the ground and then, later on, when seeing it again, realise the decision was right.



Now, I'm not saying Bentham had a perfect game, far from it. He had me scratching my head on many an occasion. But to blame him for the defeat? Give over. In fact, someone next to me last night said he thought the referee was f*cking useless, but wasn't blaming him for the result. In fact no one around me was blaming the referee and could see that we'd let ourselves down. Again.







Fine. I'll leave you and everyone else to blame the referees for us being down near the bottom of the table, shall I?



Yeah, I'll keep digging. Apparently.



EDIT - One final thought. Was anybody complaining this much about Bentham when we were winning comfortably? Thought not.