Be interesting to see what hudds do next week as we have Toulouse at home. Resting players immediately the game before a final has backfired with many teams before. I suspect Watson will put out a strong squad bar probably McQueen and ikahihifo who are recovering from injury, and if it looks as if we are winning comfortably carefully rotate the forwards and take off key spine players such as Levi and fages / lolohea to prevent injury in the second half.

Makes a change from the talk of every team having injuries whilst we crack on missing our entire back line and half our pack.

Does he not rest the players that played last night and bring back the ones he rested? That way most of your 17 have had 1 week of rest and 1 week of game time.

The Wire result on Saturday may have an impact on what he decides with you now having a cushion over them.

It can always be debated which players were missed more but, at the end of the day, we had 11 players out tonight and don't forget an 'injury crisis' is 5 according to you. That's a double injury crisis plus one we had to deal with

Haha I've literally never said that.

No doubting Wigan had more missing last night, was just making a point that Huddersfield's absences seemed to be overlooked by the SKY lot that's all.

Overall a pretty poor performance. Passing poor and didn't respect possession. Kicked twice on 2nd tackle ffs. Wide defence a joke - just give em free run ins. Yet could've sneaked it.
Gonna play a second team again next week and lose again? Should've tried to put Hudds to the sword and rested a few next week. Get a niggle next week and less time to heal.
Only plus point is that Halsall and Nicholson showed up well.

Mc Donnell played well also. Some of the lines he ran and the dents he put in the defence were impressive for his age. He put both Partington and Isa to shame.

3 players there that with another season under their belt should hopefully be knocking on for first team rugby.

It’s difficult to say as like I say resting key players has backfired on teams before, that isn’t how he’s done things with salford in the past but possibly that was because salford didn’t have the strength in depth to enable him to do that. Lolohea had a week off (enforced) the game before the semi. He may just want to try some stuff out against Toulouse so who knows.

When is Powell back and why do they keep waring the pink kit instead of the blue away shirt.

Game after the final, which must frustrate him when he thinks the incident happened on Good Friday and had he been banned straight away and missed Easter Monday, he’d be available for Tottenham.