Atkins needs to improve. Rhys Evans was brilliant today. Should be interesting next Sunday.

So are we are suggesting that the muscle strain was 'much worse than feared' and that Atkins is likely to be out for a few weeks ?

Well guess il tip us to lose every week now.

Ryan was injured and may miss a week or two with a ligament problem in his elbow,

We should sign him......

I hope he goes there, he would be the spanner in the works to screw up Saints' impressive start to the season....

Our defence was good again, long range tries and our lack of pace can hurt us though.
Still worried about our attack not clicking, I think Huddersfield undid themselves and how exciting is Russell on kick returns, he's a little ox

Well, Huddersfield may be a but hot and cold at the moment but let's be fair, that's a great result and wonderfully unexpected.

Yes, it sounds like we still struggled to click at times but a victory like that has to be a great confidence booster to the players and staff. Make no doubt about it Anderson will have kicked Giants backside in training following defeat last week, but we soaked everything up, kept our heads and delivered a sucker punch. With Rhys looking good, Paul Wood back and Ben H (I assume) imminent things are looking better.

Not wonderful, not perfect, not problem-free but hey, with the exception of Leeds & Saints we're in pretty good company in that respect.

Glass is half-full tonight, and I'm a Morrissey fan remember.

May the rest of our matches this season be like the last 10 minutes.

Great result for us, the lads found a way to win in the absence of a kicking game which is good but I hope we can start pulling it all together soon. Russell is a great addition to our starting lineup, ratchford has shown in the past that he is a good goalkicker but perhaps he needs someone to convince him of that at the minute?

I don’t think Ratchford will have to worry about goal kicking for a while.
Remember Bridge was the first choice kicker before we signed Hodgson.
I don't know why Ratchford was given first dibs in the first place.

It was good to see Rhys leading the way to the line & showing the way through with a superb dummy which eventually led to Benny & Richie doing the same. It was as if the confidence rose in our team in the second half when they realised there was an alternative to just end to end passing but going nowhere. Hopefully, its just been a late start to the season which will improve considerably for the Wire over the coming months as team confidence grows.

As for Ormesby, the lad is big enough to be a forward of the future & is definitely not averse to getting stuck in.

I would imagine they as in the coaching staff would have looked at this during pre-season and Ratch would have been their prepared choice. It is important to have a decent kicker so hopefully Bridge can step up and do the honours.

I would guess it was more cautionary as Bridge has rolled that ankle more than his fair share.

well done on the win today, deserved it in the end. i didn't think you were that good,if im honest you looked clueless for most of it and only wrapped the game up in the last 10 minutes byt which time, we were shot, having defend your own line for 3/4 sets at a time is very hard, penalties galore and our dropped balls put paid to any thought we had of finally getting a win.

the scoreline flattered you a little as you ran away with it in the last 10 minutes, which was always going to happen, no team can defend for 38 minutes and win a game of rugby league.
russell was superb for you and was the only wire player who looked like creating anything, evans and ormsby ran the ball in well, and westwood and waterhouse as always were dangerous.

but we shot ourselves in the foot with silly errors, half ar$ed efforts at tackling and some terrible discipline ( mr child seemed to think so anyway)

hopefully we will be a different beast when we come to yours

Tbf I wouldn't disagree with you, Russell does look like he's going to be a right handful, our defence is still the defence of old but we do look a bit naff going forward, I think Huddersfield beat themselves.