Luke O'Donnell reminds me of Ryan Bailey... a thug.

I was worried that the players might finally let the results of the antics of the children in the shareholders' playpen get to them today.

Dunno why I did them the dis-service of not having full confidence in them, because they proved my concern totally unfounded.

Played their hearts out yet again. Passion and effort totally undiminished.

The fans could not ask any more of them.

Come on, that's stretching the truth somewhat. Even with a full strength squad, I reckon today's team would only change by 4, maybe 5 players. We're not far off our starting 17 now imo.
Brough was the difference, simple as.

A difficult game due to poor conditions, I thought Hudds kick down field and hunt the mistake worked well and a lot of other teams would have buckled under the pressure and let in a lot more points. Our defence was good as we were pined in our own 20m for a long time and still managed to keep them out.
The ref did us no favours today seeing him take a step forward so Hudds were onside was just crap.
Huddersfield may be top of the table but they certainly did not get it all their own way today. COYB

Anyone have any idea what LOD did to get sin-binned? I didn't even know whether it was a red or yellow because Halibut just gave up trying to get a card out of his pocket.

Your kidding. He was his usual bone idle self! That hit he did was fantastic. But the only reason he touched the ball was because Brough kept turning him around with his kicking. With conditions like that you need your backs to be taking the ball up every set to take the load off the forwards. Pryce who is a giant would also take some energy out of the Giants. But as per usual he wasn't interested in taking the ball up. Hope to god we get Kearney back next week.

Thought we dropped too much ball in our own 20. When we finally got in thier half we flung the ball straight into touch when we needed to build. We ran out of juice towards the end, partly because Potter user 9 subs after 60 mins. Great effort but lacked attacking edge. Jefferies was awful today. Huddersfields first try was all down to him. If you going to charge out of the line, make show you hit the man. Brough just walked passed him. Jefferies was our main half back today and had to take control. Twice he got caught in posession and flung it to a youngster on the last. Not good enough from him today i'm afraid. Hopefully we won't be too down heartened, but need to improve next week for the cup. but great effort from the lads. Not going to comment on Alibert as used to his performances by now

P.S the pitch was an absolute disgrace, has the groundsman been made redundant?

My view was forever being obscured by the two trainers that Hudds seemed forever to have on the pitch.

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.

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.