I had moments of prescience in this game. “They’re going to score past Newman if we don’t take him off” - 20 mins in.

“We’re competing here because we’re not making errors”. Sangare, Roberts, Miller, error error error lose…

If Newman and Fus stay fit we probably win that game. Leaving them on too long, and still not reining in Miller’s brain trumps… finding it hard to justify.

Also noticed we lost the ruck too much tonight.

To be fair to Miller, i don't think he was going for a short kick off. I think he just miss kicked it. Kinda sums the team up really.

To think this is probably the 3rd most expensive squad in the league is laughable... absolutely no depth of quality... Some of those players are for sure stealing a living...

The new signings are just not working...
MoM may have scored 2 tries (4 this season) but looks like he doesn;t have a clue,
Frawley, enough said.. kicks way too deep and does naff all
Miller is up and down... trying too hard probably to make the magic happen. Still rate him.
Croft... goes missing but does have some quality

This season could be over, or probably is but the table is still close.. we could turn it around

Clearly either the players are just e or the coaching is not upto standard... maybe both. Time is ticking for Smith

As for the other Smith who is captain, i see no captain qualities on the pitch.

Can u imagine what a Peacock or Sinfield would have been saying behind the sticks after each Giants score? Going ape with the team..

I thought we did some of the basics much better in the 1st half, than we have done most of the season. We had the better of the field position, without looking too threatening will the ball.
The 2nd half was a different story. Huddersfield were well into our half with the 1st set from the kick off and our 1st set finished with McDonnell kicking on the last from in our half. That set the tone for the half.
While we have been poor most of the season our defence has been pretty solid, but these last few weeks even that has capitulated.

We’re just constantly losing our composure under pressure.

We were flattering to deceive today - The Snake missed three kicks and the two tries we scored early second half were soft. First half was pretty good, but we let them come at us second half and had no real answer.

If I’m being kind I could say we didn’t have any backs on the bench so losing our 2 and 3 was a big deal.

I mean Catalans got wiped by this crew at their place last week and we did better, but we handled the injuries poorly I thought.

We have no mental fortitude, and the reason for that is the culture running through the playing side of the club accepts mistakes far too easily. That stems from the CEO and the Coach and manifests in the playing groups. Until that changes we will continue to have the occasional good performance surrounded by mediocrity and a few humpings by the better teams.

-Weak minded mentality continues

- Fusitu'a should call it quits his body just can't cope with the demand of rugby (Newman isn't far behind him in that respect)

- Mcdonnell can't cover centre although couldn't really be helped with the injuries tonight

-Miller is very rocks and diamonds can produce a bit of magic but tries to do it too often should have just found the deck when returning the ball instead of trying to jink past 3 Huddersfield chasers. To then go for a short drop out with the scores at 24-24 with 5 mins left is a complete brain explosion and sums up the current mentality of this Leeds team.

-Some good pieces of play tonight completely undone by terrible defensive efforts and reads and poor game management the cons far outweigh the cons.

-Kendall is still as shocking as ever with his decisions ridiculous at times.

-Anything but 2 wins from the next 2 and Rohan is surley gone.

Literally losing interest more and more each week in a club I love and will always support through thick and thin but just sick of same old story now for far too long.

The only player that made any impact for us was Martin. Without him we have no attacking plays whatsoever

The game management at times is just amateurish. 2 minutes to half time, we try throwing a few silly passes and give the ball back on half way, which resulted in them kicking a penalty.
McDonnell having to kick on the last tackle of the first set of the half.
Miller almost knocked the wall down to give them a 7 tackle set just after O'Connor's try, which totally gave the momentum back to Huddersfield.
And finally, the drop out from hell.

We are a joke of a team. The only player on the field tonight that made any significant impact was Martin, but when he made the breaks he had nobody backing him up. Our defence was woeful and we never built any pressure. We did not deserve to win the game and were very lucky to be in with a chance on 70mins. To make the evenig worse it was freezing

Four home defeats on the bounce, and a different but in some ways worse performance than against Wire. Its like we trade one weakness for another, and underlying problems just aren't getting fixed as they creep back far too often.

If one thing sums up how stuttering we are, its that we're nine games into the season and Croft and Frawley have scored just one try between them. That is the result of a whole host of issues with the way we've been playing, and is almost the same as Austin/Sezer at the same stage last year (a whole one try more...). Aside from the initial run in 2022 under Smith, our halfbacks have looked awful in the majority of games. It really is beginning to look like the issue in some cases isn't the players.....

A couple of posters who have scoffed at criticism of smith and team performances are noticeable by their absence...

I get they want to avoid negativity but if the team were performing now any critics would be called out for their absence.

just said the same on another thread

listening to smiths interview hes starting to really panic and that shows, previously hes not overly leant on decisions going our way but hes grasping at that now too.

Good first half, everything we wanted to see.

Those early tries in the second half seemed to destroy our confidence and momentum but thought we did well to get 12 points ahead again, when we weren’t playing great.

Masters destroyed our right edge, thought he had a great game.

We really need to show more resilience, and cut out the dumb plays

This has been said for too long now, the problem starts with smith and clearly these repeated issues arent changing anytime soon.

I'll be honest the first half was decent and steady and again we made some good breaks but yet again the fundamentals of attacking in good ball were 'clunky' and some of the last tackle plays still really poor, Frawley in particular continues to prove doubters right with his performances.