well another win which is good!
certainly a game of 2 halves, we totally dominated the first half, winning every collision, line speed very good, defensively sound,discipline good, basically did all the little stuff right,scored some good tries, bombed a couple too, it was far too easy.

then the 2nd half, firstly credit to wakey who made a game of it, but yet again we stopped doing the little things right, line speed was poor at times, falling off tackles, wrong options in attack, and letting them in for 3 fairly soft tries, which was a disappointment, we conceded far too many penalties, although some of them were pedantic and wakefield got away with the same.

anderson was frustrated,rightly so, i like to be positive, and to all ends i am, we showed in the first 40 minutes when we are in the mood we are capable of playing some fantastic stuff. but i just feel we missed an opportunity to raise the bar even higher today and finally put a team to the sword, but we seemed content with what we did in the first half, and also credit to wakefield who came out more fired up in the 2nd.

i have said all along that performances don't win you extra points, but i am a bit disappointed that we didnt come out firing in the 2nd half and build on the first half and give them a proper pasting.

but a win's a win that's all that matters

excellent first half, shows what we can do when we complete sets and hold onto the ball, mcgillvary was brilliant today.

2nd half not so good, fell back into our old ways again... we need to be more ruthless, could have done with piling the points on today to help the points difference

but overall it was a good win in what was a tough looking fixture

but puzzled by the starting line up! no broughton which i can understand as he has been poor but kaufusi and taai?? maybe injured, maybe anderson wanted to freshen things up

grix went off injured? again we didnt handle this well. connor looked great on the wing today!

we can actually still think of topping this league again, who would have thought

jerry played a massive part today, his 95 metre try and 2 brilliant try saving tackles were the difference in the end!
i thought the starting line up was good, yet again mullally had a good game and played with heart and made metres, patrick was his usual barnstorming self, connor looked assured again whether at wing or fullback.

32-0 up at halftime means its tough to lift, no matter what anyone says and Wakey made it tough for us.

Week off now and then home to Widnes with a semi-final hangover..hopefully with Cudjoe back too

Losing Grix meant three players had to change position so it was always going to be disruptive.

We blew them away in the 1st half ..and whether it was a case of taking the foot off the gas or just things not coming off ....we were never in danger of losing the game and i think it was a bit of a case of job done reserve some energy.

Jerry was my MOM, he's a real handful when he's in that mood for any defence, surprised to see Connor on the wing but thought he handled it very well, another try fro him too as well, his confidence must be sky high at the moment and he is given Baloo no reason's whatsoever for dropping him.

Thought Mullally and Crabtree were the pick of our forwards yesterday, Mullally continues to impress me every game and like Connor has given the coaches no reason's for dropping him right now.

Anyway 2 points, another win and only 4 points off the top now !!

jerry, stand out man of the match. and another impressive display from mullally and conner. anderson said he had to have words with conner at ht for mouthing off at the ref probs put that down to age, second half a little disapointing but all in all a good day out for the giants, and good turnout from our lot aswell even if a little quiet.

PA said he told Connor about 'chelping' at the ref and said if he didn't stop it he'd take him off an play with 12 men! Not sure if that was tongue in cheek or not. I have noticed before he does have a go at the ref so needs to cut it out quick.

PA also said the first half was almost faultless - 2 error spoiling it. However, he did say he was 'disappointed' with the second half likening the game as a whole to 'getting your chinese and finding the rice is missing'.

Without getting carried away in any sense, in the last 3 games we have seen some promising signs. In our defensive work and commitment, which has been letting us down a lot this season, we've seen gradual improvement - second half against Bradford only 2 tries conceded, one in the first minute and one at the end with the game won, only 16 points conceded against Catalans when we'd conceded over 20 for I don't know how many games, and again less then 20 against Wakey, all conceded with the game all but won.

We've had some key players return and make a real difference when the have - Murphy and Lunt - and the youngsters, in particular, Leeming and Connor, have taken their chances well and done enough to be creating the all important competiton for places.

If we can build on this in the next 4 games we can take some real momentum into the play-offs.

the first half we had 90% completion rate, win most games with that percentage.

agree about the defence looking abit better now which is needed.

paul anderson said about the win it was like ordering a chinese takeaway and the rice not turning up

kaufusi and broughton got knocks in training so they missed out.

Given the disruption it's perhaps not too much surprise we faded second half

We ended up the penalty count with Giants 10 Wakey 5, no wonder we faded second half

Will we ever learn

to be fair a lot of those were given during child's pedantic spell midway through the 2nd half.
our discipline was pretty good, certainly no worse than wakefield.

Wakey got away with what we were penalised for on numerous occasions. We certainly did not appear to be ill-disciplined during this match - even though the statistics say differently.