In true Giants fans style the season is off to a flying start....blame and double standards abound!
We have a pile of injuries, must be somebody's fault, let's ignore all the injury types and blame the conditioning team!
There's a clamour to bring players in, the club take a punt on giving Jamie Foster a TRIAL and this is immediately criticised...give it a chance it may or may not come off but at least they are doing something and he has experience.
I'm sure they are looking for others but at this point it won't be easy.
Often criticised for not giving the kids a chance, now complaints because we are playing kids and not experienced stand ins
Scott Grix place is constantly questioned and is slated but now he's injured he is suddenly a big miss!
Same applies to a large degree with Robbo ..
Patrick is slated after ONE game back for a dropped ball under pressure in torrential rain and a slightly low pass....Jerry drops a dolly of a pass first tackle under posts...no comment made
If there's a stadium cat it had better beware it will be to blame soon!
We have a tough few weeks ahead with injuries, as others have had, surely its time to get behind the team, whoever plays .. time to stop looking for scapegoats and excuses and get on with it, it's all part of sport with no guarantees.
And please look at what all players do ... mistakes are not confined to the same one or two.
Whatever the team we put out on Friday I do believe we can win!!!

IF we lose on friday then anyone who criticises wants to give their heads a massive shake and bang it against a very hard brick wall.

looking at that squad, we have no right to get anywhere near Wigan, so let's get behind the lads who do play and back the boys for 80 minutes!

Maybe we could try and get Hampshire on loan then as he was surplus to requirements for cas last week?

It's true Hampshire was offered to you, but it was himself what declined the move because your coach wanted him to play at FB, which as Rocky said I might as well stop at Wigan and play full back as go there.

i agree with Durham why the hell the didn't try and sign Jones a second row who can play is beyond me .but we are where we are the one thing i have noticed over the years when a club has a injury list like this is that more players get injured before players return. maybe this happens because players who would normal be rested due to the normal strains of the game just have to play on. we can just hope that the cavalry turns up in time to get us into the top 8

As long as we don't panic that's the main thing...

how do we know he didn't try and sign Jones?

total rugby league news meast reported before he went to Salford that we where not intrested

could just be the "official" word, could also mean the player wasn't interested in us.

anyway, like i said, no one could have known 2 weeks ago how bad things would get.

Yes they could.!!!!!!

If you have a very small squad to start with and some players who have medical problems and are carrying knocks like a half back who has been struggling for a couple of seasons with a hip problem and can only play with injections. Some teams might say actually he is a risk we should replace him at The Giants we say Give him a two year extension !!!!!! it is not rocket science to think if we have a few injuries we might struggle. Particularly if you look at the squad and say

IF we lost two backs who would we bring in ?

That is called risk management/ planning/ etc.

Look at the first team squad. Look at the number of experienced players and think if they got injured how many of the youngsters could step up and play week in and week out, how many can we rely on in a big game. We had a really small squad .

I admit the ferres saga left us in the doo dah but Robbo has himself said he has been struggling for two years. Anderson and Thewlis must have known that last season ,

I don't know why you bother Durham, you've stopped attending games and you don't have a good word to say about the players, the coaching staff, the directors or other fans of the club
Perhaps you should start supporting another team.....

Sad isnt it that that mismanagement by the club and some of their patronising supporters can conspire to put fans off who have been following the club for 40 years.

Particularly when pointing out the deficits of the club is seen as being negative.

Still i am sure you will be happy when we are in the championship with 3000 at games feeling all nostalgic about the good days with your superior smug face on .

I look forward to attending the game on Friday though

Sorry, Daz, but after being fed up with certain comments on here for the past few months, I shall have to comment on your post.

I suppose I shall be shouted down, but I do think that you are looking through clear glasses at the truth.

Well said.

Ah, total rugby league news. The Daily Mail of Rugby League. It must be true.