Cas

He did seem to want to be quicker in making the decisions. He may have had a remit to make quicker decisions, or he may have decided himself to want to make more decisive action when reviewing. To be honest I would have preferred thorough rather than quick.

I have had a couple of days to think, but am still a bit baffled by the match and reaction from some areas to be honest who think it was a great match and performance.

I wasn't overly impressed and still think it was a boring game with two poor teams and limited quality.
Mcshane was the only quality player on the pitch, and my word he is some player, whose skill and guile always caused problems.
I guess it showed some improvement from us, but it's still a hell of a long way off being a decent rugby team.
I did however think we looked better defensively, especially the first 10 minutes which was a hell of an effort. But then we completely lack ball control which resulted in a 72% completion rate for the 1st half which is dross.
Two last grumbles
1) Sarge- shocking again. To early kncok ons from the starts and one of the worst PTB passes over bowns head I've ever seen. He needs moving as this rediculousness of playing at FB is a shocking decision and he looks half the player from last season
2) we have an international centre in Watkins who may not be setting the world on fire at the moment attacking wise, but it would help if we actually gave him some ball!!!

Sorry to be so negative but it's still not good enough. I'm not expecting us to be as good as last two seasons and it was an improvement but it needs to be a steeper curve up.
I can't see much from the next 3 matches and I think then dependant on performances and other results Marshall position comes into question

So the next thing RM wants to tighten up on; periods just before and after half time

And states that others will get a chance at fb , Sarge improving in that he's catching the ball solidly but coming into the line and passing poor as is some of his covering...why, because he's learning the job
We seem to be really missing that flow on attack near the line as GOB and Evalds perfected, but I suppose it takes time. 4 matches for the team before the real judgement for me tho.

The worrying point in his comments was that he said that it was maybe his fault. The messages are not getting across.

With the friendly against Wigan we have now played eight games and Marshall has had the players since December. Surely, there should be signs of cohesion and doing the right things by now.

My take on the unforced errors and discipline issues are that they are down to players who are struggling to stay in games. That comes from either bad coaching and / or fitness.

We were improved against Castleford in that we stayed in the game, but I thought Cas were poor themselves. 

To me Marshall comes across as a tick box Coach. Like many in the "corporate world" he says all the right things even when they know things are bad.

We have been spoilt in the last couple of seasons and with the upheaval caused by Watson's departure I expected that it might not be ideal in these opening weeks. However, I expected more.

Prior to the season, fans on here and on social media were saying this is the best squad we have had in years. A journalist picked us for relegation in the pre-season predictions saying he did not feel the Marshsall / Orr coaching set up felt right and he was largely derided on social media.

It's is still early days and the next three of four fixtures do not look promising. However, we must see tangible improvement in those games, even if they are not won, for me to be convinced of Marshall.

As a Salford fan since 1973, I really do hope he proves me wrong.  

Remember last season lots of defeats then Evalds a fortunate interception near our line and Brown a lovely try to settle it but we were generally awful before that.

This year Marshall hasn't chosen any of the team and we have 10? new players again. The hooker and full back been a constant problem with injury /suspension., so the spine has suffered and consequently our near the line attack isn't functioning.

We're improving and at least he seems to be open with things. He's rotating his forwards as he said he would and our international back line hasn't played together yet. The 2 teams who have been really poor Wakefield and Leeds aren't yet on the horizon so just enjoy the fact that we can get into the Stadium soon and have a really good moan

i do think we lack a pack leader. Taylor?? But 18-18 against a well drilled Cas team is ok.

I think the time to judge is in about 4 matches. Then I'll have run out of excuses.

We’re better than that ,or at least we should be.
I was optimistic after the Cas game but when he said he’d give someone else a go at full back it threw me.
We’ve seen Kear who was ok,Escaré who I personally think should be given another chance(sorry Steve) and Sarge who is wasted there.
Thats it. Of course,others can play full back,like Tui.but it’s a bit bloody late to start experimenting.
Its make your mind up time,no time for rehearsals 

We're getting better each week so let's see how the next 3 tough matches go and look forward to not listening to the Chuckle Brothers (or as I do now watch with the sound off) and be sitting there and moaning with the rest of you.