IT’S SAL UP FOR GRABS
Brown: Devils facing hell of a run as fans return... but bring it on!
Tomorrow, 7.45pm
KEV BROWN has come out fighting for struggling Salford ahead of a nightmare run of games.
The Red Devils have won only once in Super League and last year’s Wembley finalists also got knocked out of the Challenge Cup last weekend.
Lying in wait for them tomorrow are unbeaten Super League champions Saints, followed over the next 10 days by big hitters Wigan and Warrington.
But 36-year-old Brown warned doubters to write his side off at their peril, as Super League welcomes fans back for the first time in over a year.
The half-back said: “If results were poor and performances were getting worse then I would be really worried.
“But our performances are getting better and I am confident results will come regardless of who we are playing.
“Sometimes you can look at runs of fixtures and be worried, but I prefer to think this might be the perfect time to get results.”
Salford’s solitary League win came against bottom side Leigh last month and they have since pushed Castleford close in both the league and cup.
New coach Richard Marshall has big boots to fill following Ian Watson’s success in taking unfancied Salford to the cup final and Grand
Final in the last two years. But
Brown is
convinced he is not far away from making the Red Devils click, adding: “The players are fully buying into what the coach is delivering. “Everything the coach is doing is good so we are not using that as an excuse.”
Salford’s indiscipline has cost them dearly in several games this season and Brown admits it is a problem they must solve. He
said:
“Sometimes one error leads to another because of frustration and it starts to affect you mentally. “But we are attacking it in a positive way from now on. If someone does make an error then we have to get behind them and stop it snowballing.
“We have quite a senior group of players. We cannot look for excuses or start blaming people.”
Saints boss Kristian Woolf is convinced the return of fans in tomorrow’s games will make his side even more dangerous.
He said: “We have got used to empty grounds and having to create our own atmosphere.
“But at the end of the day, the players love playing in front of fans and the roar of the crowd.”