god, that was awful. terrible in all areas, except kick offs where we were very good, turning over the ball several times. far too many fumbles with ball in hand - attack too flat.

got to say i thought Thaler's dodgy calls had a hand in all of their first half tries except the first one - although difficult to be 100% sure from near the other end of the pitch.

can't think of anyone that had a good game. a few early run from temata.

hudds were professional but didn't set the place alight. good luck to them - they were much the better team on the day.

Heard your musings on Radio Leeds as you drove south and we went north and east. Glad you're all back safe and sound. Well done - good away turnout today thanks to you! Hope next week is a return to beating the opposuition ready to takae the Giants down the following week. Come on You QUins!

just reading posts from the Giants supporters - usual gloat can be forgiven but to say the ref didn't have some dodgy calls is just wrong. How and why should [iwe[/i be penalised when they knocked on in front of the line I just do not know. Thaler should go back to ref school!!! He's a total failure.

such as when?

I think if you read the posts properely then you would not have made your post.

Everything i have read makes points about the ref missing a whole host of things by both sides.
In fact one posts asks if he was not playing offside, forward passes, lying on or knock ons. The comment however relates to both teams. What thaler did do was be FAIR to both teams. he just did not want to blow his whistle for anything which i think was a good thing

If you're talking about the incident where Louie tried to force a goalline dropout he dragged the bloke back after the tackle had been completed with the ball grounded in front of the line - fair decision. I was however a bit bewildered by Thaler's strange addiction to signalling an extra set of tackles whenever the ball was kicked at an opponent's legs. It almost became a nervous twitch and this cost us the second try after a cagey opening (we were only 0-4 behind after around 20 minutes) paving the way for the decisive second quarter of the match in which we were totally battered, conceding four tries and barely getting out of our own half. That's what tends to happen against the best sides though - something contentious goes against you and they seize you by the throat and don't let go.

We didn't play well, there were too many unforced errors, but we were up against a very impressive side who were clinical and ruthless and showed a fair amount of flair in unpicking our defence. I'm assuming Leeds and Saints will continue their recent domination of the top two places in the table, but I reckon Huddersfield have as good a chance as anyone else of achieving a top 4 finish.