You don't reckon sport's ever as simple as one team executing their game plan better than the other on the day?

I'll bow to your greater 'knowledge' then.

One other observation, it obviously meant a great deal to the Giants as the players brought their kids onto the pitch at the end like ours usually do when they win finals.

It was probably just because of the discounted tickets. Most of the players' kids hadn't been to a game before.

Lose and you're gone. Yesterday was a big game, I hope Huddersfield treat it as the stepping stone it was and don't rest on their laurels after humbling the current SL Champions. Enjoy the win but remember they've won nothing yet although I think it would be great to see them go on and do so now as West Yorkshire's representative and add another new name to the SL Era roll of honour.



If he threw it would it be forward anyway?

Matt23 has nailed Burrow's distribution from dummy half on the head although lots of those flat balls from him are probably OK they look needlessly forward most of the time and some of them unquestionably are, IMO.

I thought MCguire was quite a big threat yesterday. Made loss of half breaks which in another day would have been more productive. Sadly his pace has gone and he can't make the most of the breaks he makes

If Burrow goes back to 7 it will create more problems.

At least he will create something then, unlike the present incumbent

Create what exactly? He runs around himsself for himself, then when he does pass he passes 90% of the time forward.

All we do is move someone around who is not a proper hooker, to not a proper scrum half anymore even.

He is better off doing what he does best, but at a period of the game when it works best, 15 minutes at end of each half. That is an area he excels at.

Plenty half breaks, yes, but Hudds defence was happy to let him run, preferring instead to disrupt any support runners safe in the knowledge that if they prevented the pass then he'd be easily run down. Anderson's not the only coach to have realised this but he deserves credit for ensuring that his defenders never panicked. Link up play's becoming a major headache for us: McGuire is excellent at finding the gap but is now tackled too quickly to fully exploit it; Hardaker has the pace that McGuire lacks but has no eye for the telling pass. The one genuine threat is Watkins but he's too far from the action when out on the wing. And without Ward we're lacking back rowers with any pace either. If/when we have the team fully fit these deficiencies will lessen but a pacey 2nd rower added to the squad wouldn't go amiss (that's assuming there'll be no changes of personnel in our halves for the foreseeable future).

Leeds spent most of their energy levels busting a gut to keep Huddersfield deep in their half. For Brough to ping us back onto our own goal line. He's a hell of a kicker he will do that (got speed and footwork as well to avoid being totalled by the attempted charge downers). So maybe next time let them soak up to the half way line / just into our half and not be as keen to run them down. They'll kick away and its the Status Quo. Just a thought.

Leeds dropped too much ball, too early in sets.

We needed a score after half time but looked lacklusture in creating much.

Macca dragged off after a poor stint never to be seen again. But Achurch wasn't given the same treatment and was brought back on. Clarkson got another pointless stint (10/12 minutes) when the game had gone. As for Kirke....blink and you missed him. Alot of forwards played alot of minutes on Saturday and we didn't the result on this occasion.

Burrow looks as comfortable playing hooker as I do round the in-laws.

burrow at 9 does not work burrow starting the game does not work.Neither does rotating the same players every week kev is a legend but if i was picking England
squad i would have brough over kev at the moment .He needs a rest but will not drop himself imho our squad needs an injection of fresh legs a few new ideas in attack and a bit of youthful enthusiasm . We have these things at our disposal they are called the u19s