....Not sure abou that. It would have been 6-0 and even if we had then added the Pryce try, 10 nil, but I think Hudds had the measure of us.
As for the Bubble.....I am in agreement with others......jury is still out.

Let's stuff St Helens in Widnes next week and get back to the top where we belong!

Think our lack of a last kick option was more to do with some great closing down play each time from the Giants, they executed their game plan well and should have been some many scores in front, however, without doubt that would have been a game where under Mac we would have capitulated and seen +40 put on us, so a fantastic improvement and the team are doing all tha any supporter can ask of them. Best team won, well played Giants and you will be a tough outfit to beat this season.

Well played Huddersfield - an organised, resillient side, excellent in defence. Apart from the first half an hour I thought we generally lacked ideas, but we were as some mentioned hamstrung by injuries picked up. Thought Ellis was superb when he was on; Other than that I can't recall many standouts.

Still remain very disappointed by our centres - they don't seem to want to make decisions, tentative and it just isn't clicking.

I don't think we were terrible by any means, just Huddersfield played well.

Phil Clarke made the interesting comment (well, there's a first time for everything!) that we don't score long distance tries - perhaps it might be an idea to give Calderwood a start against Saints next week.

How dare you be so negative!!!!!!

Purdham had a shocking game, you are spot on there. Our forwards were very poor going forward. We got absolutely hammered territory wise. Only positives for me were the defence, nothing good can be said about our attack.

Yup, have to agree. We were better than last season, but still pretty poor - desire was there for sure, nice to see, but let's be honest last season is a weak benchmark and I reckon a few people have lost perspective. Brown and Brough took us to the cleaners, especially down our right hand side, and only poor execution in the final play stopped a total slaughtering (on many more occasions than the 4 video ref no tries). Maybe I watched a different match though.

I also had to contend with having Beavis and Buthead's non-stop match commentary from the "loyal and loud" section. Back to AG for the next match methinks...

If you could keep that performance up all season there is no reason why you could not make the play ofs. What you desparately need is 3 or 4 players to give you some back up.

Keal carlisle ( hooker) would be a good loan signing for you as he will not get near the Giants team when Robinson comes back in a couple of weeks.

Whilst i thought you were second best there is no doubt that there is a good team spirit at Quins, a never say die attitude and a strong work ethic. That is not something i would have said about Quins teams over the last 5 years.
After a performance like that i see no reason why SL teams would turn you down for loans for a season.

I often do apparently



Watching Brown, and in particiular Brough, just highlighted how poor our half backs are. Gale had his usual 10 minute spell of being brilliant and 70 minutes of doing very little.

With regards to AG, I sit there, and it was full of kids yesterday, so I wouldn't go there either, it was painful, we moved to the other end at half time

Gale got a deadleg in the first few minutes so limped through the game.

As for bad kicking if you watch Hudds they drop 1,2,5 back on the 4th ready to recieve the kick-That makes it difficult to hit the ground on the kick.

The better side won-Brown and Brough were great.

Not a great effort. Poor defensive line speed (unlike Hudds who's defensive line speed was excellent all game, and rarely off-side despite what half our fans seemed to think). Pack failed completely to dominate going forward, the only time we made any good yards in a set was with the help of a penalty. Purdham was poor, the halves were poor, Dorn's positioning at full back was hopeless and our back three let the ball bounce 2 or 3 times every time Hudds kicked it deep or high and never beat the first man bringing the ball back (I miss Mclinden).

I didnt even think our defence was that good. Hudds could easily have scored another 4 tries.

Most teams drop 1,2,5 back on the 4th. That's why decent sides run a 2nd man play on the 4th to take advantage of the shortened line (or deter putting the sweepers back next time). Good defence positioning is no excuse for poor kick preparation, far too often it looked like the 5th was a surprise to us.

It's a funny one. After the scars of last year half of me cant totally move on from those horror memories and half expect that monster to return, but the other half of me has faith that we have actually moved on to a new era.

On the positive side I think the class of 2010 would have capitulated after Giants 3rd try but the class of 2011 were very resilient and hung in there. Andy Ellis looked sound and is starting to flourish, Chris Bailey is always looking for options.

On the negative side, we lacked so much creativity at 7, compare Randall to Brough

our forwards are small and rely on getting to ground quickly and a quick play the ball, Giants bigger blokes completely dominated us and didnt allow this to happen. Some of the players were well below par, Purdo (mind might have been on events in Cumbria), Clubby, Randall.

As an aside, how did we all feel about the Friday night experience ??