Four day turn around may have something to do with the big men being fatigued. Hill made 166 meters and 34 tackles against Widnes, not bad for a prop!! 4 points over Easter not seen since 2010, get a grip.

Typical flat Easter game, two poor sides trying their best not to win it

Got out of jail at the end, no one more relieved than Patton after the drop goal attempts, 2 points & on to the next

We have been making excuses for Wire all season.
There are no excuses left, poor effort from both teams. Good vocal effort from the Giants fans. Have to find a positive for one of the teams at least.

Right in front of us, Patton was kicking to the left corner with about 15 minutes to go, but if he had glanced to the right he would have seen a clear run to the posts.I think Huddersfield scored at the other end within a minute though. I thought our defence was quite good today but our attack was missing players moving across to create overlaps at times & a hard day was made harder by Thaler's poor refereeing. Wakefield will be tough unless we can get some fluency in attack.

I never thought we'd be in a position where we were celebrating a missed conversion against Huddersfield to hold on to a win.. Depressing !

Sorry Dad
I'll try not to have such high expectations again.
Grip got.

There are a lot of poor decisions being made across the park when we have space in front of us. We bombed a few tries where chose the wrong option at a crucial time.

I have to admit though it is all my fault. Only game I have missed was Leeds and we won. I returned to the fold today to make sure that i was not the Jinx. I left with 20 mins to go when we were 20-16 down (Long Homeward Journey). We come back and win the game. I will not be going for a few games until I have been to see the exorcist. I apologise and god be with you.

The Widnes game was 6 days after Leeds, where we certainly put in a lot of effort. Then at Widnes we lost Russell and Atkins and played two men light on the bench. So today only 4 days later it's hardly surprising we looked fatigued - and lost Cooper early on. The forwards looked as though they were running through knee high mud for most of the match. And it probably will not be much better for Wakey in only 5 days time. It's a daft time of the year and I don't think anyone can read too much into the overall performance.

On the plus side I thought Jullian played really well again and was unlucky not to score. He tackled well and ran some very good lines in attack ( when most of the time there was not even a runner supporting the ball carrier). For me he has edged out Savelio for the BR spot. One cock up by Evans shooting out of the line but the rest of the time he was surprisingly good in defence and made decent ground running the ball back. Ratchford was the top man of course with some clever breaks whilst mopping up everything that was thrown at him in defence. Livett and King I thought were so so, with good and poor bits of play, probably both tired. Gidley was similar, missing a try scoring opportunity by passing the wrong way early in the first half, giving away a stupid obstruction penalty, but getting another valuable try.

Until we are out of the Easter period I don't think we will really know where the team stand. More importantly quite a few other teams will feel the pain after Easter with injuries and fatigue taking their toll. At the moment we are relatively well off with only 2-3 long term injuries and the ability to switch the squad around.

Thaler was shockingly bad. I went for a pee during one Hudds tackle and when I came back everybody was still waiting for the ptb.

I thought losing Cooper early on was a positive

Agree the ref was diabolical, Wire down to 12 men for 10 mins and we might have got over the line instead but Thales bottled it, thought markers were supposed to stand behind each other as well? Can't believe you lot are bagging the ref, all ya did was boo for a frigging penalty for most of the match.

I've not been bowled over by Coops this season and I was waxing lyrical about his return. Need to step up and prove my pre season bigging up Mike.

Cooper has been playing with a slight fracture of the hand since the Brisbane game. That is only just healed, but today has had 5 stitches in his mouth and slightly concussed.

Probably let us off with that as he turned a blind eye to you lot only being onside at the play the ball on the odd occasion!!

Tho I do feel thalers poor game won us the game

I think some people are quick to target players such as T. King. I though he had a good game. Lets not forget that the lads have played 4 games in 16 days, Anyone who has played the game will tell you how you feel the next day. To go unbeaten in that time frame is an outstanding effort and takes a lot of mental toughness and grit which was non existent at the start of the season. I think we've turned a corner.

How anyone can say they didn't notice Patton can't be watching the game very well. He takes the ball closer to the line than any other half and his kicking provided Toby with a good try. He's vocal and does a lot of good work off the ball.

Everyone bemoaning the high balls... Did you all fail to notice how unstable their fullback was under them? At one point he was shipped off the wing in the first half he was that rattled. pretty sure that will have been the tactic. You can say that was due to Gaskell going off but there wasn't any real need to put him there, his had was pretty gone and the water boy/man/manchild was right in his ear trying to pick his head up.

Our middles let us down yesterday. most their breaks came through there, however as mentioned above that's pretty understandable, we look a completely different side though when Clark goes off. I used to really like Dwyer but he really hasn't kicked on much has he? Pretty poor and below average so far this season.

Best for me were:

Ratch
Clark
Patton

I thought Philbin had a brilliant game and that Sims has really picked up his game in recent weeks too. Evans turn of speed after being shown the outside was great to watch. Livett looks like he's going to be following in the footsteps of Ben Currie too.

Unimpressed by:

Dwyer
Cooper
G. King

For whatever reason a number of our forwards were not running with any aggression; simply making contact with the tackler. Hopefully it was fatigue because if that's how they play when fully fit, we're not going to win anything this season.

There really is something about Livett isnt there?

I'm not sure what it is i like so much, but you can see there is something there. He isn't shy of wanting the ball in key areas..... sometimes he has taken a play on and things haven't gone his way, but he has the confidence to try it again.

Without a doubt in my mind, the future of this club will be: Currie, T. King, Livett and Patton. All have the right physique, confidence and talent.

Thought it was a pretty decent game, thought a draw would have been a fair result in the end, obviously you lot will disagree but i thought we were on the end of a couple of tough calls, not least the one where you dropped the ball and Thaler said play on and Clark i think it was went on to score.

We had our chances and didn't take them so only ourselves to blame really.

Big thanks to the Wire fans who made us all feel very welcome in the kings head before and after, as always a great craic !!

What was the excuse against Widnes?

Jesus Christ this forum is pathetic.

We're unbeaten in 4 games and going the right way up the table.

Cheer up.

If that was aimed at me, I'm pretty happy and content in the main as my outlook on life is not affected by the performance of a rugby league team. I'm just posting on a Rugby League forum about my view on the team, which I understand is what it is here for. There are other forums if you think this one is pathetic.

Moaning when we lose, now moaning when we win. Really isn't any pleasing some. We could go on a 20 game winning run and clean up and some would still find something to moan about.

Not quite winning the gf will leave all quite content.


But many people also look further ahead than the next game or this season. off the field business ad facilities look good on the pitch performances and staff don't look so good at the moment. We seem to be doing things backwards using our backs to get us up the field then looking to our pack to score which is rubbish to watch !!

I don't think we got on the refs back anywhere near as much as Danny Brough did.. That bloke has to be the worst harasser of refs since Paul Wellens !

Where does moaning about moaning score with you?