Yes I was proud. The pride was enhanced when other ft teams have failed to go unbeaten against 'postmen and bricklayers'. Extra respect!

Do you have trouble understanding your own posts? Do read it again. You said we played not so well without him (untrue) and now you say we would have played much better with him. This despite no evidence you were at the game Had Hodgson played there is strong evidence that we would have played much worse! HTH

Fwiw you did not claim they were prestigious, you just tried to give the impression that they were hence the term from me guilding the lily, but hey lets not that stop you from a bit of selective misquoting something you are quite adept at. And thanks for stating the obvious it is the Giants forum and I am quite sure all Giants fans know what the trophies were for. What you post on here are your thoughts' out of your head and put on here for all to see, I merely see it differently to you and try to point out in the right way, something you find trouble in doing HTH as well

[iHuge[/i disrespect shown to the NFP (as it was back then) in the act of feeble point scoring chaps. There were and are some good players at that level. A surprising attitude considering Wakefield had been down there themselves a season or two earlier. And both teams have found decent Super League players like Sam Obst and Shaun Lunt from there in the last 2 or 3 years.

FWIW i think we probably would have won at Hull if Hodgson had been playing . However that would have too much bearing on our game on saturday.

Against Hull Hodgson withdrew on the morning of the game which did not leave much time to alter any attacking plays( defensively we were good at Hull). This time around it was clear that Hodgson would have been missing straight after the Wire game so there has abeen a full week for preparations to take place without Hodgson.

as such there will be new plays with different players involved in some ways that makes it harder for Kear to predict what we will do which may give us an advantage doing something different than Brett comming into the line.

I am looking forward to the game and still think we have the defence to dominate you.

I think it will be relatively low scoring but with the giants to narrowly win.

horne and wild to miss out