with regards to smith i would like 2 say"I TOLD YOU SO"go back 2 my post from feb when i told u he was crap and people said give him a chance he was replaced at souths by a 17 year.

Like EVERTON1 i too have previously posted my negative thoughts about Smith. I cant say im happy to still have that opinion i would have loved him to have proved me and others wrong but i still dont rate him at all. I know posters can come on and say he did this in that game or he played well against whover but i sill think he is awful more regularly than inspired.

Few halfbacks could have done anything with the way the team played last night. How are they supposed to create anything when the attacking line is as flat as the defensive line? When we eventually did line up a bit further back, spread the ball wide and stretched them we looked a little bit more threatening.

Why Smith? Why not Littler

i dont think we've had an easier win all season, we weren't even playing at 80% our potential last night,if we had you could have been looking at a severe thumping.

however like many who have been beaten by the giants this season, it appears it was the ref's fault again



very poor crowd as well, i know we didnt exactly bring thousands but crowds of 3721 must be worrying for you guys, that new stadium cant come quick enough it seems

No-one has said that. We deserved to lose, good ref or bad, but that was still the worst officiating I've seen in quite some time last night.

maybe i worded it wrong, but everytime we've won this year the opposition fans and sometimes coaches have ranted about the referee,it seems we cant win without the aid of the referee

I've already said elsewhere that you were well worth the win and if we're being honest it probably should have been more. Still, it's extremely frustrating when a referee gives 2 tries that are extremely questionable (and that's being kind) and cannot seem to control a game with selective penalising of certain things.

to be fair though, in most games there are mistakes from officials as there are from players, and in most games there a few dodgy decisions which dont go your way, thats part of the game, i bet you cant remember a game where you didnt think the ref was bent etc or gave dodgy decisions?

1) No one is saying the ref cost us last night, we were shockingly bad.

2) That doesn't take away from the fact that he himself was shockingly bad as well. To be fair, I think he was bad for both teams, but he was truly awful.

To those talking of some kind of pre-match issue in the changing rooms. Huddersfield came out early; they seem to do it now and then. The the away game they came out early for the second half and did a bit of warming up. Teams are called out on the ref's whistle - it's not as if Hudds, the ref and the touch judges were all lined up wondering where we were.

Ref did not cost us the game last night (we were awful) but Thaler is the worst ref I have seen in all the years I have watched the game, and I count games not including Salford in that. I can wierdly cope with them being bent but if I was just that plain bad at my job I'd have been signing on long ago.