Report by Frank Grundy

The game took eighteen minutes to kick into life, with neither side able to string together enough passes to score. From a short grubber kick over the line, Reds number 5 Eddie Vaughan touched down, with stand off half Mark Sneyed converting the try.

From the restart the Reds knocked on and the Leeds winger capitalised to dive over in the corner. A missed conversion made the score 6-4 to the Reds after 21 minutes. This was the cue for the Reds to go on a try scoring binge, started by Luke Ambler - who was having a great game - when he offloaded to sub Ben Wood who used his mountainous physique to great effect to crash over.

Only ten minutes later, winger Eddie Vaughan touched down for his second try, with a great conversion from Sneyed making the score 16-4. The Reds weren’t done yet, and it wasn’t long before the Reds number 14 completely hoodwinked the Rhinos defence for yet another try, again well converted. By now the Reds were in dreamland - 22-4 up against the highly thought of Leeds outfit, and well deserving such a lead.

The Rhinos rallied briefly with tries on 63 and 64 minutes to make the score 22-12, but eight minutes from the end great passing from Reds number 7 Anthony Griffiths and Eddie Vaughan put Max Wiper through for a classy but unconverted try, giving us a final score of Reds 26 - 12 Rhinos.

This was a great performance by the Reds and beating an always strong Rhinos side is not something that happens by fluke. Man of the match Luke Ambler played for most of the match but was pushed hard for the award by great performances from Jason Walton, Ben Wood and Marlon Alker.

There is some real talent in the Reds junior ranks and they deserve as much support from the Reds fans as possible. With these lads and Alan Hunte in charge, the future of the Reds looks very rosey indeed!

Hello there.

It’s been a while since I wrote a legitimate blog post but now I’m back in work after we have had our baby and things are settling down after a spate of games in quick succession, now seems like a good time.

One of the reasons behind setting up this blogging subsite was to try to chart some of the history of the club and get it all online for future generations.

There are a couple of simultaneous projects going on and it may well be in time to come that these eventually all join forces to create one mega-site of the history of Salford RLFC. Doubtless there will be discussions with Gaz Shaw, Paul Parkin and the boys helping out over there about how best to move this forward.

One thing is for sure now though, it’s 2008 and there’s no reason that we can’t digitise our history as much as possible. What we as a club have begin to do using our Flickr photo site is get as many photographs online, for starters, from games this season, and as the weeks go by from seasons past.

This is easy to do from the last few years as the photos are digital, we do however have an older archive of prints that will need scanning and fixing before uploading. This is a longer term project and will be added to over time. It may be that some of the pics are never even viewed but it is correct that they are archived anyway.

I have also started uploading pics of past players into their own set. These can be as recent as the likes of Coley and Robinson but also will stretch back over time as we get chance to scan more. Some of these are illustrious faces that graced The Willows. Others will be Paul Carige Some will bring back belting memories such as little Paul Shaw, others will be Paul Carige.

By all means have a look round our Photostream at http://www.flickr.com/salfordcityreds or you can see the latest over there on the right or from the front page of reds.co.uk

I’m excited about the possibilities of being a part of getting all this archived ahead of the move in 2010 so if anybody has anything to contribute, feel free to drop me a line at paul.mcnally@reds.co.uk.

Cheers,

Paul