Considering our recent away form I didnt expect much but came away very pleased with the result. Thought they were the better team in the first half butthankfully we showed our class in the second 40 minutes.

Matty Bowen very impressive despite early knock on. His running game and set up for Chanleys try was brilliant.

Larne Patrick showed glimpses of class by breaking the tackle and getting a quick play the ball. I still think Huddersfield have got the better end of the deal this season though with Jack Hughes.

Joel Tomkins showed he is definately a backrower and not a centre. Far too one dimensional and uninspiring to play in the backs nowadays.

Despite recent blips, Sarginson was excellent. My man of the match actually. Always takes the difficult carries despite lacking size and was our best defender on the pitch today. Positioning was brillaint and looked like the only one willing to tackle in first half.

Looking forward to hearing everyone else's opinion!

Bowen was poor in the first half but excellent in the second.

Josh Charnley is working very hard for his position which is great to see.

Tautai had a big impact when he came on. There's always an error or a penalty in there but he looks far fitter now and they struggled to control him.

Our back row is phenomenal!

Glad to see Tautai do some good minutes today aswell. I cant remember exactly how many but it seemed like he did more than usual. Hopefully Mark Bitcoin is working on his fitness.

What has happened to Tony Clubb by the way? I sem to only remember us being told when he was initially injured that it wasnta big injury. I presume he must have picked up another injury or they underestimated how serious it was. Clubb was our best forward (and probably player) the first few months of this season!

Clubb is still a few weeks off.
Crosby might be available for Saints. No one else will be.

The mystery is still Iain Thornley who was supposed to return 1/3 way through this season. We are over 1/2 way through now and still no sign of him.

Thought Joel's offload that led to Josh's try, then that reverse pass from the play the ball to Josh late on, were sheer brilliance. We are lucky to have 4,such brilliant second rowers.

Faz's links with Burgess for the first two tries show just how much we need him IMO. I was really pleased that Josh got the tries his efforts deserved too.

Just seen the highlights.

Matty Smith's defence for the first 2 Huddersfield tries was shocking.

Charnley's first try was all Bateman, Joel just caught and passed. His offload in the build up to Bateman's try was good though.

Surely it's time to give Hampshire a go there.

Joel missed the tackle for the first one IIRC. In fact pretty much everyone missed a couple of tackles especially in the first half. Huddersfield bombed a few chances, so they didn't all lead to tries. Why pick on Matty - who was excellent in the second half?

Being a category 367563 fan I wasnt at the game and i havent had chance to see the highlights but from Bilko's commentary on Wish (whilst enjoying the afternoon sun in the garden and a few sherberts) it sounded like only 1 or 2 of Matty Smith's bombs actually paid off and his goal kicking wasnt anything to write home about.....?

It was 3-on-3 and Joel was backing off to cover the centre and it was Matty who missed the tackle on the young fullback. He dropped off Wardle for the 2nd as well. Generally I think he's been much better in defence this season but those were two poor efforts yesterday. Definitely melodramatic for anyone calling for him to be dropped

Was away this weekend so wasn't able to get back in time to make the trip over for the game, sounded a good win for us over in Yorkshire on the radio, makes a nice change!

Anyone got any highlights of the tries? Sounded like Bowen is looking good, and Bilko was in high praise of Bateman and Faz. We've got Joel to come back in the back row too, is there a better second row in the league compared to ours?

We have an embarrassment of riches, certainly, but we are not the only decent back row.

Saints will be happy when Vea and Greenwood get fit. They will be strong. Catalans with Zeb Taia, Elliot Whitehead and Jason Baitieri are great at home (as we found out!). And somewhat surprisingly Hull FC look good with Westerman, Minichiello and Ellis.

Cracking game and well worth the lengthy round trip! It was so pleasing that we finished the stronger side; apart from the Brough breakaway, we really bossed the second half. Bowen was good in the second half, but that awful dropped ball in the first half really should have been six points to the Giants. He redeemed himself with some classy touches, though. Faz was terrific (how many times this season have he and Budgie scored that exact same try with the long pass inside? Three? Four? [edit). And as for Bateman; as well as his fierce appetite for ball-carrying and tackling, he has a hell of a step on him too! What can't the guy do?

Sarge almost seemed to make a point of stopping props one-on-one in response to recent complaints about his defence; he was again very good.

So, a good match-winning performance in the second half, but we could easily have been punished more heavily for those defensive lapses in the first half. Honestly I thought we were lucky to go in all square at the break.

Who was the guy down the front, applauding the players (and fans) behind the goal at the end of the game? Couldn't see from where I was.

The highlights of the game are on the skysports website.

Smith was at fault for the first two tries. Hopefully he's more aggressive in his efforts on Friday.