excellant start to the season, not many will go to widnes and win on that pitch!

got abit worried when they went 6-0 up but after that its was all one way, ikahihifo and taai are beasts in the prop department for us running hard and direct...ikahihifo in particular was a handful,...just like in his pre season games against bulls and wire.

was surprised when gaskell got the nod ahead of mcintosh at full back but its turn out to be a great move as gaskell was very good, for his first game in such a long time you can see what skill he possesses. he will add alot to the attack for us.

hinchy played longer at hooker than i expected, still not sure about him playing there.

the ref tried his best to get widnes back into it, one of there tries in the second half was a clear knock on!

one big disappointment was the loss of symonds with a knee injury, pray its not too serious and he back soon,

got caught out by the mway roadworks again


oh and cudjoe mom for me, 2 try assists and a try.
i noticed also lastnight how hard the team was working for eachother and we cut down in the pens , no silly offsides etc which burdened us last year

I thought Paul Clough was excellent last night. Made the hard yards.

Thought Widnes tribute to fans and past players was a lovely touch.

The win was all important last night. A great result to build confidence going forward. A loss would have started to bring back all the negativity we experienced last season.

Salford will be smarting and looking to make amends. We owe them one from last season. I think this game will get tasty...

Good first hit out and all showed up well. Thought that Brough and Brierley linked nicely, Gaskell and Mellor showed promise with neither looking out of place. Big drives from the forwards too with Seb the standout. Leroy was best player by far but Danny ran him very close.

Glad to have git the visit to Widnes out of the way early. Now we can look to build some momentum with our run of home games.

Overall quite happy so far but tougher tests will come as will our plays gelling better. Always good to win the first game so no complaints.

Will be looking forward to Thursday now - COYG

And if we win Thursday we top the table for at least a week!

Just to add - there were no more than 4500 Widnes fans at the first game of the season last night- no doubt some opposition fan will make some sarcastic comment about the fact I've mentioned it- but if that was the other way round there would have been a dozen comments from the opposition about our poor crowds.

yep , just seems to stick and follow us round this crowd thing, hopefully crabtree can try change the apathy towards our club abit.

the widnes season tickets must have been a hard sell this time round, lost their star player and brought no one of note in, but i like they way that have steadily built as a club over the years reminds me of the giants in many ways.

Everyone else is allowed to use the excuses we get hammered for, it's how it works.

Huddersfield have crap crowds everyone elses are fine and justified !!

Only time i noticed them was when the scroats were scrapping with the stewards and letting flares off - at a home game, while losing to last year's bottom team, jeez it must be rough for them if that's how they get their kicks !

To be fair I think a lot of giants fans talk about our crowds more now than our opposition fans do. I read or hear more defensive comments about our crowds when nobody has even mentioned it from other clubs. IF ANYTHING I hear opposition fans praising how well behaved and noisy we are more often than not.

rife on social media, especially after a giants win!

wait for it after thursdays game..

the new one seems to be 'are we bradford in disguise'..... plenty of bulls fans taking a keen interest in us this season!

Let them take an interest, before long they'll be new fans

hoping we may convert a few! alot will be from hudds anyway!