I thought the players looked over weight and slow. Very unfit

Hudds always do well against us and Brough was mom. But as last season especially showed, it's not how you start. It's how you finish. Reckon they were saving it up for next week.

No plan and no idea. It was utterly embarrassing. We made them look superb. The defending for two of Hudds tries was an absolute joke which wouldnt even have a place in schoolboy rugby.

Our players looked knackered after 30 mins.

What irked me more than our terrible kicking game and total lack of idea's in attack combined, was the fact that Huddersfield just wanted it more. They ran harder with the ball and in turn defended like their lives depended on it. We were the complete opposite to that looking lethargic and unwilling to bend our backs at times.

I'm willing to right this one of as a blip, with my mind cast back to last season when the roles were reversed and a weakened Wigan side pulled of a fantastic victory over the Giants. But I'm looking for a big turnaround next week in all departments.

ATEOTD NO-one expected the Giants to win but they wanted it more today, end of.
Early doors after 1 game so no need to panic (Wigan) or get carried away (Giants) its a long long season.
Great to see the youngsters get a run out and perform very well against a team that will be there or there about come end of the season.

Huddersfield deserved the win. Brough tore us apart with his kicking game and they out enthused us. They defended very well and had Sam under control. A few players looked absolutely knackered even after 20 minutes and I was disappointed with a few of the senior players. On the few occasions that we did make a good break there was just no one around to support. Particularly in the second half I think it was Carmont who made a break in our own half and just no one, not even Pat was anywhere near him. Faz had a fantastic game and made some great breaks but again had no one supporting.

Our kicking game was atrocious and is something that needs sorting. So much pressure was put on us defensively just through not being able to put a kick downfield that could beat a man and turn anyone around. The likes of Saints and Wire will make us suffer big time if we kick like that against them.

Huddersfield did spoil and slow down the game a lot, and silverwood let a lot go imo. But we were more than happy using those sort of tactics under Mcguire... we still should have done better and some of the defending leading up to hudds trys at times was not pretty to watch at all.

It's only the first game but we have a lot of stuff to sort out in the next few weeks.

Giants did what Wigan have done for seasons now so very well defended I say. No-one can say the best team didn't win.

Only Flower and Lauaki played.

They were both ok, nothing special. Wasnt impressed but wasnt disappointed either.

i agree in that hock lacked discipline, but i would also say lauaki was aggressive while as others have mentioned, was poor in defence. sam while solid was disappointing but as others have said, it was probably due to the lack of advantageous position. all in all they havent given other teams anything to worry about just yet.

The deafening roar of the DW morgue crowd put them off.

It's been a strange build up generally for this season, most teams had fewer than normal friendlies and Wire did something different. On this basis I expect some shock results in the first few weeks, unfortunately we caught one this time.

Haven't read the whole thread - apologies.

However it was all 1 man rugby until it was too late, we all looked knackered after 20 mins, Pat so slow? Tomkins left a lot to be desired with the 1 on 1s at the back. We let them ly on, kicking game was shocking - we kept on kicking far too early in the set, its fine every now and then but too often it just throws your possession away!!

Pre season has been a joke, the 1st team have hardly played together and that was weeks ago?

Rant over.