game for us on Friday. The result of which could feasibly set up a trend for a long while after. What-is-more, the Welshy's will be thinking exactly the same thing... Any differing opinions?

A must win game for the Reds

A real 4 pointer on Friday night.

lets hope a win on friday against them will kick start the new season like last year! oh hold on a sec........

I was thinking about this before. I agree that it is a huge game. If we cannot beat arguably the worst team (although Harlequins might have something to say about that on their showing so far) in the league in our opening home game then it doesn't set the best tone for the rest of the season. Not only that but if the casual fan sees the game, they're hardly going to be given confidence of coming back and seeing us beat the better teams in the league. With Leeds away the following week we need to get some competition points.

It is a fairly big game and after only 2 games for us and one for yourselves.

I still think we've got a bit more quality than last year and can get a good few more wins under our belts. I think you lot can be quietly confident too after what seemed like a decent performance at KR yesterday.

I'll be up for the game but they're not even running travel from Wrexham yet so if Wigan is anything to go by there will be more from South Wales than North Wales sadly.

Thank f*ck for that, with the thread title I thought this was going to be a discussion about Citeh .

Big, big game on Friday. I didn't get to yesterday's game but I managed to listen on BBC Mcr. If you take away the disastrous first 10 minutes it sounded like we competed without quite looking like we were going to seriously threaten an upset. Looks like the main concern was our lack of field position, mainly by the sounds of it down to being 2nd best in the forwards and a poor kicking game where KR were starting most of their attacks on their own 30m/40m line.

Against the Crusaders it's vital we hit the ground running (stating the bleedin' obvious I know ) but you can't afford to give any team (bar possibly Swinton ) a 12 point start and expect to get back into the game. I still think we are a stronger outfit than the Crusaders but it's amazing what a bit of confidence can do to a team when they score early, likewise, what a negative effect it can have if you're staring down the barrel after a nightmare start.

If we can get on top in the forward battle then it looks like we have the firepower to score a few more tries this season. I'll take any sort of win to get the confidence back up before the Leeds game but I reckon we'll do them by 12-14 points if I had to make a prediction.

I reckon to be paying at least a fiver after the game into the forever reds coffers

So, bearing in mind that this is our first "4 pointer" liable to affect the teams confidence in one way or another, it's probably a good idea to consider this game as a big one for the shed to really get involved in... We've plenty of newby's in the team that won't be aware of the shed affect and must be wondering what they've come to here at Salford.

What do you reckon?

nah, im just going to stand there and shout abuse... thats really getting behind the team