Match Report

[iGIANTS THROUGH TO CUP QUARTERS

A hat-trick from man of the match Shaun Lunt helped the Giants to a 38 points to 12 win over Rochdale Hornets in the Challenge Cup at the Galpharm Stadium.

Huddersfield (26) 38
Tries

Robinson didn't come back on for the second half and Lunt spent a period off the field and that's when we fell away and badly.
Why do we rarely play with width, always turning back in centre field? I nearly fell asleep second half it was that flat and repetitive rugby. We certainly lacked pace. Both Griffin (J) & Lolesi were caught with a head start.
A few players need to up their standards. Very disappointed today with some players - Cudjoe, Lawrence, Aspinwall & Finnigan didn't do themselves any favours today in my eyes.

Having said all that I must give big credits to Rochdale. They never gave up, tackled strongly and caused us problems throughout the game with their attacking kicks.

Thought Cudjoe did ok.

He got caught out for both Rochdale tries and out of position a few times. What disappoints me though is when running the ball out of defence he is slow and stops before hitting the defensive line.

I appreciate he is young and still learning but if he can't do it against part timers he'll struggle against better teams.
At full back against a top club he will be targetted and caught out far too often.

Totally agree and also Lawrence seems to get caught ought a lot, they both need to push on this season.

Lawrence has trouble adapting to switching from centre to wing. This is a common problem for any non specialist wingers they often get drawn out of position.

As for Cudjoe positionimng not great but catching looked better. Still got a season and a half to learn off Hodgy though.

thought carlisle did Ok today he seems to pass the ball well. plays a bit like a smaller version of Lunt.

As said before, Lawrence is great at centre, poor at wing, and wings are all too easy to say "they played poorly" being often the exposed end of the defensive line.

Think we being a little harsh on Cudjoe, His positional sense for fielding their kicks was superb and ran it out of defence well, he is not gonna break tackles left right and , Brett never makes many breaks either but we don't slate the guy.

I also think Patrick had a good game today for us too, showed a great turn of pace for a backrower when out pacing the Hornets cover defence.

What we did lack was the clinical side that all the so called bigger teams have and the passing was farcical at times with Faiumu showing dummy outside and in when we had 2 man overlap.

Zip it across the line!!!!!! and stop this predictable inside pass.

1
Gareth Hock
Wigan
55
2
Willie Manu
Hull
51
3
Jason Demetriou
Wakefield
46
4
Paul Wellens
St Helens
45
5
Will Sharp
Harlequins
42
6
Thomas Leuluai
Wigan
41
7
Brett Hodgson
Huddersfield
41

Not too many tackle busts.

even though he has already played a few game for us, i though larne patrick had a great game. solid tackler, ran with the ball hard and fast and thoroughly deserved his try. we have got a lot of young talent coming throughin the centres and 2nd rowers and i think we need to take advantage of this throughout the season when our first teamers may not be doing so well

Apologies Wadski it was actually Joey Giant that posted the figures on clean breaks by Brett Hodgson seeming to think I was saying Cudjoe was in some way better.

All I was doing was using Brett H as an example and saying that we should not be knocking Cudjoe for his performance against Rochdale (which some people were) when he did the same as Brett does.

His positional sense under the high ball was very very good and he ran the ball out of defence very well too.

Brett H is awesome and one of the best overseas signings we have made for a very long time and has given us the ability to be confident when a high kick goes up or a break is made.

Once again apologies for my error.