You forgot that Greg Eden was in our academy before he signed for Cas.

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No I'm not - what happened last season won't be easily forgotten by a lot of fans and as evidenced by your post, neither was it when it happened to you.

The manner of the raid on our promising youngsters by Shudds was unpleasant - we were down and your club kicked us; that's a fact.

That explains his silly mistakes every now and then i guess
Looks a decent prospect though.

I'm struggling to understand why so many appear to give more of a toss about this game than most others? I reckon its partly down to the huddersfield lot trying to manufacture it into a proper rivalry on a message board because they have seen the genuine article between Wakey/Cas, Wire/Widnes, Wigan/Saints etc and they feel a bit left out, hence the stirring of the pot so they can feel a part of something.

Should we get stuffed on Sunday against this mob than I dare say most will feel no worse than when we got beat by FC last week, KR the week before or even Leigh away a few years ago on the telly.......

Keith Mason was wakefield player as well.

I think that's a fair point as far as it goes. However at some point it became more than that, though it has little to do with local rivalry. There was a period from about 2004 - 2009 where it became a humiliation due to no other reason than the large one sided scorelines, or worse the inability to keep a lead. This often at a time in the season when we were usually doing OK - year after year after year. This against a club that should never have been doing it to us, at no point have Hudds ever been a Leeds or Saints yet season after season they beat us far more convincingly than Leeds or Saints did. Yes you're right they have through the use of these forums attempted to create a false rivalry but boy have our previous teams and managers made it easy for them to look good.

I'd love us to treat it the same way we treat Hull or Wigan, but we don't. We are up for those games in a way we rarely are for Hudds. They have targeted us as a 4 pointer for years, prepared for it and succeeded. Whilst we dream of beating Leeds they are getting the points off us and we never seem to learn.

Maybe now that Hudds are at least on paper a superior side to us we may take this game at least seriously even if it's far from the grudge/derby matches we so enjoy with Leeds or Cas. Hudds are not our rivals and who cares about the bragging rights, what they have managed to make themselves is our bogey team - as Toppo used to say they have the hoodoo over us! That's bad enough in the League but imagine if it were a play off game or a CCup semi, it would matter then.

I just want the players to treat this game with respect - winning would be a bonus but losing not the end of the world. It's the fixture I hate, I rarely care about Hudds other than the week before we play them

Honestly cant see us winning but aslong as the effort is there thats all im bothered about. I dont care what so ever how many wakey players they have as most of them obviously thought they were going on to bigger and better things, which so far they have, but i hope the way we are progessing it will turn out to be the wrong move for them.

Tell ya what Vastman ...that's a cracking post and sums up our 'rivalry' perfectly !!

jesus, never thought i'd say that about one of yours !!

And you wont find one Giants fan that supported the RFL's decision to keep us in SL when it was plainly obvious to anyone we werent ready for it .....best thing they did do was eventually let us go down so we could regroup as a club and come back stronger which i think everyone agrees we did !.

Not one fan i know was happy to be kept up year after year it made a mockery of our sport at the time !.

thank you, at last some humility. See you on Sunday and have a good game (and go easy on us !)

rubbish. complete rubbish.

where were the protests banners asking to be sent down? where were they?