Really pleased with commitment and passion shown today from all our players, Brough was the difference for me and the final result was harsh on us with the way we defended for our lives in the second half.

Would just like to say to all Huddersfield fans who were giving it the "at least we will have a club to support next year" you are a joke! If it wasnt for "SIR KEN" writing off your huge losses every year you would have been liquidated a long time ago because the size of your support cant sustain the huge wages you are paying under your flexi-salary cap.

This is your heyday and you will still win NOTHING

Hmm.

1 - re KP: suspect you watched a different match to most of the rest of us?

2 - re Jeffries - Hudds did a very good job of closing him dowm, that was why he was less effective. They knew they had to do that, and they did. We had few other options given the missing players.

3 - last time I checked, it was not in the groundsman's remit to relay the underground drainage at the bottom of a bloody great hole in the ground?

Think you're being a bit harsh there. I thought there was tons of effort today. Jeffries struggled as he was put under lots of pressure. For long periods he was our only kicker on the field so much easier to close down. Brough's a better player all round anyway so it's hard to put much blame of Jeffries.

We did lack a bit of composure when we had the ball in their half and not taking our chances cost us in the end. The long spells defending our line really sapped the energy. That said I thought we tackled very well. In the end Hudders deserved the win but the scoreline flattered them.

The ref wasn't the reason we lost but he was hopeless. He seemed to make totally random decisions at the PTB that bemused both sides. Not surprising players got frustrated. In the end Hudders extra experience go them home.

Roll on next week with Gale and L'Estrange back hopefully.

Sorry just don't think he was that good. The only reason he touched the ball, as said was because Brough kicked to him. But he needed to take the ball up more when we were pinned in our own half. He wasn't bad but i don't think he was MOM like people are suggesting.

Yes Jeffieres was put under pressure, but he has to deal with it. Fair enough once getting caught you can deal with. But twice, why didn't he stand back more? Plus the way he let Brough go passed him wasn't good enough.

Not taking anything away from the effort from the lads though.

Ran in and punched someone, who was fighting anyway and how did it start??

Also I rekon:

Kearney, Kear, Gale, Scruton, L'Estrange, Donaldson, Sammut and Crookes could have with only Donno and Scruts the doubtful ones. Thats 4 playmakers (BK, Gale, Stranger, Sammut) and 2 wingers who get through a lot of work :/

Jeffries could've stood deeper on occasion perhaps but I think his kicking game was negated by good Hudders pressure rather than anything else. They obviously had been drilled all week to pressure him and had two or three on him leaving him nowhere to go. We hardly ever got in a position where we got to put in a decent attacking kick either so it's hard to blame him for much. The miss on Brough was poor but others were also to blame there. Manoakafoa left a huge gap on the right for him to swan through.

With Gale back we'll have two kickers which will give us much needed options.

On Pryce I thought he was ok. He saved two tries with his tackle on Patrick and the intercept that didn't quite come off. In attack he was ok without really adding much. All in all I thought he had one of his better games and looked fairly comfortable at fullback, his positioning wasn't much different to Kearney!

Nothing the groundsmen could do! I live just off Halifax road and all the way down the drains were overflowing on the road! The amount of rain we have had it was never going be a good pitch today.

Same line of thinking as me, but I wouldn't drop Ainscough right now, he deserves his place. If all our wingers were fit I'd go for Crookes and Ainscough. Hopefully we have Kearney, Gale and Heath back next week and we suddenly look a far more potent attacking side.

Ainscough showed why he's not good enough for this level 10 touches 4 errors.

I dunno, they proably did put some pressure on him, but he doesn't make it easier on himself. He kicks to close to the line, should give himself a few extra yards because he's been caught out on a number of occasions already this season, either getting charged down or offloading to someone like Whitehead or Bateman to put in a kick in hope.