Good news on taylor and kelly owes us a big performance

You never know what you're going to get with Huddersfield, Brough will rip you apart one week then you'll steamroll them the next. Need to string together a decent performance or we risk "poor start" talk creeping in, hopefully we'll have a lot more go froward with Kelly returning.

Think Sneyd's kicking game could be the difference, he kicked for two tries and a drop goal when they came to our place last season.

It depends on what your idea of a key player is. They are all first choice yes, but key players? We are without Ellis, Watts and Hadley who would all be playing if available. Ellis is certainly a key player, Watts just about falls into that category, but I would never claim Hadley does. Of your players McGilvray is an outstanding winger, Ta'ai is a handful and Lawrence is a very underrated player. I don't know enough about Mamo. As for Symonds I couldn't care less about whether he plays or not.

Symonds is an excellent player. Solid tackler, Great ball handling like ferres- but much more mobile and a LOT smarter.

Ferguson is the one we wouldn't normally miss- except he should be our cover for the other two back rowers who are out.
Our issue will be the lack of the experience they bring.
Its looking like Two 20 yr old forwards with three games in SL between them could be on the bench. A 21 year old hooker. A 19 year old centre who's played about 3/4 top flight games, another 19year old potentially making his top flight debut.

It does depend on your idea of key player, quite so. I like the Giants to have their best 17 available. All those 5 (with Fergy 6) are in the 1st 17. Stone rates both Mamo and Symonds very highly.

Hope its a good match and safe journey over if you are attending the game.

I'd go with

Shaul
Fonua
Tuimavave
Griffin
Talanoa
Kelly
Sneyd
Taylor
Houghton
Bowden
Mini
Manu
Washbrook

Connor
Green
Masi
Thompson

I think most of the team picks itself. The only one up for debate for me is whether its Washy or Thompson that starts at 13.

Does anyone know why we are playing on a Thursday?
I thought it could be football related, but Huddersfield Town are playing tonight at Man City .

They have Newcastle at home on Saturday and agreed with the Giants that they could have an extra day to help the pitch.

.... they're also at home on Tuesday.

Thanks for that. Cheers

FWIW I'm expecting you lot to soundly beat Huddersfield. If you lose you're in ttouble as Hudds is a side nearly everyone predicts to be in the bottom 4 (again).

I think if we manage to win, it will be close. I also don't think if we lose we'll be in any sort of "trouble", like I don't think Warrington are in trouble either. I'd still anticipate some of our fans going totally over the top if we do lose though.

No mamo, (fb) jerry, (wing) cudjoe, (centre) Murphy,(wing) taai, (prop) symonds, (2nd row) Lawrence, (loose) ferguson, (second row) Simpson, (replacement FB/wing)

So we have 9 out - 8 would generally be first choice 17 - no backs and no back row forwards. If hull don't win tonight that's a big embarrassment!

After our performance last week it wouldn't be a big embarrassment. A medium one, I think.

We are skeptical about our ability to create tries. Tonight will confirm how good we are in that department. We are at full strength in the backs and the weather is dry. Against a weakened Huddersfield back line we should be able to score from open play. We will see.