our first home game of the season then this thursday

both teams coming off the back of an opening defeat... didnt see the warrington match so not sure how they are going but though they would win and its probably a good time to play them before their team starts too gel

lawrence will be missing this week, will mcgillvary return? i think he will. wakeman?? anyones guess.

roberts looked abit jaded against hull, maybe he is feeling the world cup exertions now...i also believe he is better as an impact player off the bench but has had to start because of the symonds injury situ.

leeming and ikahihifo from the bench again as still not fit?

hope we can kick start our season now with a win! losing our first 3 games of the season doesnt bare thinking about. (st helens up after)

team i see is

mamo

murphy
turner
gaskell
mcgillvary

obrien
brough
rankin

taai
walne
ferguson
hinchcliffe
roberts

bench-

ikahihifo
clough
smith
leeming

Admire your enthusiasm Brearley but I don't think any other Giants fan expected Symonds to ever play. Likelihood is hell probably be out for another 3 months, make a return playing for a couple of weeks and have a good game against Hull Kr which will then probably lead to been handed a new 3 year deal and then immediately get injured again the week after.

Dickinson or English in for Smith

yeh one of those two could get the nod ahead of smith

Rick has said Mamo needs time. Would it be sensible to put him on the wing for a month, with Rankin slotting in at fullback.
Gaskell, and Broughy go well at halfback, and Murphy is safe at centre.

Warrington are still finding there feet so if we keep possession and cut out silly penalties it's anyone's game.

no mamo stays at full back for me, will come good, has that x factor about him but looks abit unreliable under the high bomb... we switched around players too much last season dont want to start now after 1 game!!!

got to give rankin and brough time not just 2 pre season games and 1 sl game

mcgillvary will be back so thats a big boost!

i fancy us for this win this week...at the bookies prices anyway!

No Adam Walne as well now. We really are paper thin already. I think we only have 19 players available full stop, 18 if Jerry still isnt right.

1. Mamo
2. Jerry (If fit)
3. Gaskell
4. Turner
5. Murphy/Darnell
6. Rankin
7. Brough
8. Taai
9. Leeming
10. Clough
11. Ferguson (If fit)
12. Roberts
13. Hinchliffe

14. O Brien
15. Seb
16. Dickinson/Smith (Prop)
17. Smith/Roche (2nd row)

Surely Symonds has had his scan now? why don't the club just confirm the extent of the injury and confirm what we already know?

Anymore injuries this week and we could be in a world of trouble.....

well we knew lawrence was out, seems wakeman still suffering and now walne added to the injury list!! just what we all didnt want...injuries biting already

be surprised if the team isnt this.. could be argued its a stonger team than last week with jerry and fergy back!


mamo
mcgillvary
gaskell
turner
murphy

obrien
brough
rankin

ferguson
hinchcliffe
roberts

bench-
clough
smith
ikahihifo
leeming


roche and mcintosh to miss out.

I presume you do have Taai and Dickinson to start?

missed my starting props off!

yeh taai defo, and suppose it will have to be dickinson.. but then again he didnt play last week so maybe ikahihifo will start and dickonson off the bench

Jermaine not fit !

oh dear.

mcintosh and murphy to continue the wings then!

mcgillvary and roche to miss out

And it's all gone quiet on this board...I wonder why?

Probably because people haven't got home yet. However I'm here and i thought it was a creditable effort, especially in defense. The game never got beyond average but a win is a win and two points, Its difficult to look good in attack against a side that play offside to that extent, but credit to Fartown they took their chances.
Warrington will get a lot better i think as the season goes on, but hopefully Fartown will as well, Well done for grinding a win.

For me a very average display. The good thing was that Warrington were absolutely terrible. Giants had lots of bounce of ball go their way.

I thought Fergie, Rankin, Brough were the standouts. No one was very poor. For Warrington Ratchford was head and shoulders better than the rest

An unexpected result but now they need to build on it.

Warrington’s new coach seems to have the same old Australian coaching style of bore the crowd to death with safe Rugby and completing sets.

Rankin was very good. Broughs kicking kept us in it in that middle none scoring section-because we couldn’t get near their line- but neither could wire get near ours- there was a portion of time you could see he was getting frustrated and he gave leeming a right mouthful at one point. Hinchcliffe was again his dependable self and made some crucial tackles. Clough put in a massive stint.
Not sure what the on report was for but cooper and hill were going for Mamo at every opportunity.
We will have to play better- but the conditions were awful.