Well things have gone our ways tonight, we got the win we deserved and to make it better hull beat the wire! 3 points above wire now! Thought ferres done well at centre!

Thought Taai had his best game for the Giants, think he did the whole game.

Him and playing Ferres at centre with Wardle suspended looked very good and powerful, Widnes struggled with that side when those 2 were at it.

a game of 2 halves really.
we dominated the first half and despite going in at 30-6 it should have been more, 2 or 3 missed opportunities were passed up again, but on the whole we controlled things.the ref was shockingly poor,though, seemed to give us some very dodgy calls much to the anger of the widnes fans. I said he would look to even it up in the 2nd half and boy he didn't disappoint did he?
2nd half we struggled to as much ground as the first and defensively we looked weak at times, some bad calls went against us as well, the obstruction call on jerry was embarrassing!
credit to widnes though they battled back hard and caused us a few problems at times.

but one concerning thing is that yet again,we have no brough and robbo and grix struggled to get us on the front foot,despite both giving it their best, dwyer impressed me as well when he came on but as I said to daz last night,that game wouldhave been perfect to give kruise leeming a 20 minute run out. but another 2 points and with wire losing it was almost like 3 points!

good turnout as well from the fartowners but I wish more people would get behind the lads at crucial times, the vocal support was good in the main but many people just sit rooted to their seats when something is happening, their choice I know but would be better if everyone joined in a bit more.

best chant of the night for me was at the Viking masot- "youre just a scruffy eorl crabtree"

Brett did well at centre but i prefer wardle there- Some of Brett's passing was a bit wayward though! One thing that did tell last night was our lack of pace- when grix made the break smurph couldn't back up and the widnes edge caught him easily- George would have been there. Their edge twice outpaced him to score. I'm not knocking smurph btw he's been great for us a real rock but that lack of pace last night perhaps kept us two scores lower and allowed widnes to score two of their own.
Dwyer showed some could touches- but he's still trying too hard for me. Taai is looking better and better full 80 suggests his fitness is there or thereabouts now- the thing thats impressed/ surprised me most about him he has great handling skills for a forward passes like a half back! Ferguson was looking good too till he took that knock to the head. Our right side looked bored last night - only touched the ball a few times!

I thought best chant was "The referee's from Yorkshire" as if they weren't wound up enough with the clown

spoke to a couple of the academy lads last night, great result for them!
as for leeming, if he is a squad player I just think we could be using him especially in games like this? no disrespect to widnes but he looked composed when he came on v wire I just thought we could maybe get a better look at him with the pressure off as it was last night.

he must have taken umbridge with that as he hammered us in the 2nd half!

I also said at half time that he'd even it up in the 2nd.

1st half with Broughy on we tore them a new one ...the 1st try he laid on for Brett and his try he almost looked embarrased to be able to do em.....helped by the fact it was our half to benefit from the donkey in the middle, 2nd half again showed our attacking options without Danny are probably reduced by 60%.

Ta'ai looked good last night and looks to have lost the 'xmas pudding look' and will be a monster on dry ground.
Ferres looked dangerous everytime he ran
Dwyer had a couple of promising runs but had no back up.

Another point, i thought the treatment and abuse aimed at Kev Brown was unnacceptable from some of our fans last night, it weren't just the young uns either, whatever happened in the end we shouldn't forget Kev gave good service to this club and was an integral part of our recent upsurge. We dont know the personal stuff involved in his departure so we should have been applauding him for what he did for us...

Now is the time to send Dwyer back and get leeming playing on a regular basis. We don't want Dwyer learning about our plays and passing those on to tony smith. Dwyer won't be able to play in the next cup round and we will need a back up for Lunt so get leeming playing regularly in the squad from now learning and building so he's more up to speed in July.

I agree about the brown comments.

And funniest moment last night was the announcer proudly proclaiming the sponsorship by widnes caravans.

That was mine

agree about the brown stuff daz, was quite surprised when it started, as far as im aware kev brown did nothing wrong apart from want the best for himself and his family.he gave good service to us over the years but I think some people blame him and his namesake for our collapse last year, NB also copped some abuse at the first game, no need for it IMO, they both served us well and abusing them is/was well out of order.


jools, I laughed at that caravan thing as well as the PA bloke stating that widnes have the best and most fans in rugby league! think he had had one too many shandies..