Yes Leeds were dogger for 65, yes Hicks has a silly new beard (IMHO) but as Wells said, the team now have the belief that when the odds of recovery are stacked against them they can still come up with the result. Bodes well that the core of the grafters are young lads we'll have for a while.

Not enjoyed a game as much in ages. Like an idiot I never lost faith and set myself up for a ribbing. Luckily Leeds sorted me out.

Exactly this, at half time I said that undoubtedly we were poor but the number of penalties and restarted counts that went against us were a massive influence as well. Like most refs Hicks decided to level up the count last 20 minutes then all of a sudden Shuddersfield look out on their feet and we got some real momentum.
I've no idea if he is but Ava looked a little overweight to me and Lui is like a racehorse that needs a few runs to reach its peak. Myler took two almighty hits which knocked him off his game and you can be sure that other clubs took note of that.

According to the YEP the penalty count was 10-4 when Handley was sin-binned after 7 straight (penalties) to Shuddersfield. The final count was 10-9. The tackle count restarts ended up 5-5 (3-1 at half time).

Lui is more like a 3 legged rocking horse..

Huddersfield cannot blame Hicks for losing 26-6 lead with 14 minutes to go and us down to 12 men for stupid reason may I add that, Hicks took that completely wrong. we gained momentum and they were shattered, we had more left in the tank because wenwerent firing for the first 60. Their heads then went down and that’s that, we simply stepped up and took the game, that was purely Huddersfield’s to lose. Their big players should have stepped up and managed the last bit of the game. Also the Mellor try, was it or not, it doesn’t matter because he would have sent it up as a try because on a Facebook reply he saw the ball down, I didn’t see it down but sometimes that’s the way it goes, they still should have close the game out regardless!

Who is reffing and how pedantic they are , Child and hicks come to mind is going to have a big impact on individual games and I reckon teams will have to plan for certain refs. What touch judges actually do to help them though is a mystery to me.
Will suit the faster, fitter sides for a few months. A season ending back end of November should mean horrible weather for the playoffs, would have suited our old team. A weird looking fixture list, new rules and bad weather, going to be a strange season, staying injury free will be key for us to give us any chance IMO.