Warrington Wolves v Huddersfield Giants - 3pm

Ref P Bentham
TJ C Sharrad and G Stokes
RR M Thomason

Tough game on the cards low scoring affair IMO...
Just had a nose on the Hudds board and they seem extremely cofident despite an R.L. lesson last Sat by Leeds...

Bentham..

I tink they have good reason to be confident, but hopefully they will have a repeat display of last Saturday and we will win

Had a text off a mate the other week, after the Wigan v Catalans game, claiming that a slightly merry Phil Bentham was saying that he hates reffing London Scholars and ourselves the most of all. Claims he will never give benefit of the doubt to ourselves....ever. Made it quite clear he was pretty adamant about that! Could have been pulling his leg, but it was a text out of the blue. Guess we'll see!

This is the first match since the saints game i have been really looking forward too! Wire by 10


Hicks man of the match?

This could give hudds the edge. He takes no notice of their holding down tactics, as in the game when hudds played wigan and he was the referee

I've not looked forward to a game this much since Bradford Away.

yeah, agree with that. Hudds always have played a niggly game and its a home game I never look forward to. You never get a clean game with them. Their not filthfy, just niggly and play a brand of rugby that bores the life out of me.

God help us sunday, dont think we will cope with them yet. Hope I'm wrong!

I hope Bentham doesn't miss too many tackles.

how very boring now !

Huddersfield are the most Boring team in Superleague

5 drives and a kick anyone ??

I feel the same way about your posts.

You seem to be able to give it in your posts, but from your above comment, it looks like you can't take it.

This is the same referee who caned Catalans last season for their holding down and general messing about at the play the ball.

PS

I bet the West Stand stewards are =redSWEAR FILTER!!! themselves at the thought of holding back the hordes from across the mound.

i was at the Quins HKR match on Sunday and Bentham will not let Hudds hold down he was all over that the whole game BUT he is the worst ref in the world when it comes to getting the defensive line onside.

Lets put soap on the ball like Leeds did - worked a treat !!

Should be a good battle up the middle - 2 evenly matched packs, think our backs might just be too strong on the day.

Should we hold Morley until 20 mins when Shirley turns out ?? Always a good contest that one.

I think it will be good as I hope Carvell will assist in this battle.

not at all - i'm always open to debate on the great game but, from a Huddersfield fan's point of view this myth given out by certain coaches and then being jumped on by the fans of whichever team we happen to be playing this week is now getting incredibly tedious and boring.

The Referees and the Rugby Football League have looked and looked again and all said there is nothing wrong with the way we play.
And as for the poster who says he doesnt look forward to games against us, well i'm the opposite, i always look forward to the Wire games as i think they are always hard fought , exciting games and over the years there has been one or two feisty encounters.
Shame i cant come on Sunday because Wire is the 1 away game i always look for when the fixtures come out!!.
Anyway here's to a good hard game of Rugby League - thats how it should be ! - and may the best team win !

I hope Moz puts Eorl on his ass again!!!

It'll be a very tough game against a good team. If we're not somewhere near our best, they'll do us and they'll do us with ease.

Which is all Hudds have been doing this season, but its been done very well. They're not the Harlem Globetrotters by any stretch of the imagination, no matter what all seven of their fans think. *

On Friday we played basic rugby as well, but against a very poor Bradford side. My concern coming away from that match was that we still conceded 22 points. Too many considering we shipped in almost 60 past them.

To win on Sunday we have to match them up the middle, suck their defence in then fling it wide. They're still vulnerable in the flanks and their pack is more than beatable. Our defence has to be the tightest its been all season. We cant afford to concede more than 12 points.

Brett Hodgson needs to be silenced early on. He is easily their danger man, and Luke Robinson has the ability to tear us to shreds. In fact he has done it many times before.

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Is that you Tony

The Referees and the Rugby Football League have looked and looked again and all said there is nothing wrong with the way we play.
And as for the poster who says he doesnt look forward to games against us, well i'm the opposite, i always look forward to the Wire games as i think they are always hard fought , exciting games and over the years there has been one or two feisty encounters.
Shame i cant come on Sunday because Wire is the 1 away game i always look for when the fixtures come out!!.
Anyway here's to a good hard game of Rugby League - thats how it should be ! - and may the best team win !'"

I expect hudds to bounce, a loss by 8 me thinks.

It was basic in the way Saints play basic rugby, in the 'execution of well coached tactics' sense. Admittedly, Bradford put up little resistance, but the ball movement and off-the-ball options were fantastic to watch. Seeing Briers and Monaghan 'link up' and hitting option runners was stark contrast to seeing the 5 drives/inside balls and a kick of the opening night.

For the main part, the pack went where Briers directed them; often they'd get field position just (our) right of centre-field, allowing for the big switch play to the left, funnily enough King's channel. I don't know if anyone noticed, but I found joy in watching us no longer over-reliant on two players on the right channel. I also found joy in seeing a kick put up for Matt King and his 6ft odd presence. (It's the simple things in life that I take pleasure from, see.)

Phil Clarke noted in commentary that Warrington "at their best are like watching Saints" and he was very correct in that whenever there was opportunity to attack a gap, they exploited it. Suppose some could say somewhat reminiscent of Leeds' style under Smith, we looked very disciplined in the sense that you could tell there were set patterns that he wanted playing and they were excellently executed with few errors.

Defensively, I was worried, too, particularly with Jeffries ghosting past Monas as though he was the proverbial chocolate fireguard, but I think we caused enough errors and made enough good reads up front to provide some positivity. Whenever there was a chance for a 'tip-on', or even an unders line, most of the time, our defensive structure made the right read and sniffed it out - we did force a fair amount of errors, too, and even Briers had a solid defensive game.