game over

thank you sir for the updates.. and read your pm etc

Great game, Giants just about edged it and were deserved winners in the end, even the ref had a decent game but I suspec he will be a bit busier in the upcoming match!.

looks like we edged a close game and need to improve in the next round

Phew, I think we won!!

Well done to the Cru fans who attended, I thought you were magnificent, and you must be really proud of your lads they were right up with a chance of progression until the last 10 mins.

We have had a real test today but at the end of the day we have won and we are in to next week against a team on the back of a defeat.

Mason is back and we look unscathed, injury wise, come on bring it on.

Yes the only doubt but with Keith back after '3 weeks rest' I'm more than happy.

yeh glad mason is back next week

crabtree was our top forward today

brough won us the game with those kicks and off load at the end!

Thought Crusaders defence and the conditions had more to do with the way we played than anything else. Fortunately Crusaders never looked likely to score a try unless we gifted them it, which we did, that coupled with some silly penalties didn't help. Hopefully with the "not having won a play-off game" monkey off our back we might play a little less nervously next week.

yes i agree. always felt we would win the game

how thaler gave that penalty for them to draw the game was a joke, never a penalty the guy just dropped like an italian footballer and was nowhere near the ball anyway!

still 3 tries to 1... 3 victories over them this season too

Disappointed that we didn't try any bombs or kicks to the corner. I thought that Robinson, B Hodgson and Crabtree were all great today!

Crusaders, like all Nobby coached teams, were well up for this game and totally out enthused Huddersfield all game

The Giants tactics were frankly baffling to me, did the forwards take a single drive up in the first 40?It all seemed to be the backs and thats why we struggled, especially against a defence allowed to lay on and creep offside. As soon as the forwards joined in at the start of the second we looked like a team that was going to score easily.

But, MOM for me was Sammut, the guy ran everything for Crusaders and some of his defence was brilliant. Kinda reminds me of Stan

Our MoM was Robbo, for the same reasons, I think Bret was very poor in attack today, though his defence was impeccable - though he is let off for having the nouce to place the ball down in play before he got dragged out of play.

I'd love to see the replay because the ref seemed to be making things up to me at times.

Crabtree was immense for us, and some of Brough's kicks were superb - especially the kick off that nearly landed on the corner flag to get us a scrum.

At the end of the game Nathan Brown was asked if he wanted to mention any Giants players. He said that Griffin was our best player and also picked out Robinson and Brough.

I'd go with that, Darrell was great, and I admire him.

Robbo was great for us today. Griff tried to carry a half a4sed team around and for me Eorl was the enigma he has been all season. He just hasn't run with the weight and enthusiasm we know he has but at least he made a few more hit ups today.

Bodgy did nothing wrong but the link up between him and Brown just didn't work. Kev didn't attack the line enough but saying that the fact Cru were sometimes offside by 3 or 4m or more stifled us. I was VERY disappointed with the officials today. I thought they were pants.