Whats happened to the GIANTS?


wonder if they will improve in the second half?

All I can say is.
Boooooooooo, FFFFORWARDDDDDD.
And you coach never moans either apparently

lol

Boo.

Ganson had a very good game, least he allows the game to flow and therefore the true result occurs.

Instead of getting false, piggybacks up the field.

He was very good tonight.

Got to agree. Fair to both sides, that's all you can ask for.

Can't blame the ref for that shower our boys produced tonight. Even Hull KR would have beaten us

Dont talk stupid!

Weird game. Cas created nothing either and we never really looked like scoring. We were clearly the better side in terms of ability but Cas wanted it more and we nipped and, despite making plenty of yards and breaks, never really looked at the races.

Very disappointing.

Gutted, we just didn't perform to go 65 minutes befre scoring is poor.

Have we got any players with pace, I get the feeling when we do break the line we just don't have the raw pace to go over the line!

sorry guys i might sound like im moaning but this is my view of it:


first of all im not blaming ganson for losing but to say he had a good game is shocking, he missed a blatent obstruction near our tryline where we were otherwise clean through, he also blew for a forward pass that was never forward and again we were clean through.

he did however make some good decisions like when kev brown picked up the gruuber kick and ruled him offside!

i thought we murdered cas in the 2nd half, created chance after chance after chance and failed to score. i thought we were alot better than cas but cas hung in their and all credit to them for that.

cas created nothing, their first try came from a defending mix up and their 2nd was an interception but the difference was they took them chances that were gifted to them.

we murdered them in the second half but we just couldnt score.

well defended cas? one way or the other, ganson was rubbish, cas were rubbish and huddersfields finishing was rubbish. all in all a rubbish game but well done cas all the same!!!

hope nobody thinks im disrespecting cas here btw, that was just my view of the game.

We didnt have the finishing required. Cannot break down a defence without a kick when we get in the opposition 20. We seemed lacklustre from the offset but perhaps this was as a result of the effort put in against Leeds last weekend. Cas wanted it more - we managed to stop them scoring (as did they did us) for the best part of the game, a right old arm wrestle. Just feel we are lacking in the attacking department and have been for some time. We dont seem to be able to come up with the goods when we get near the line, void of ideas. We did keep trying we just made far too many errors - AGAIN! That certainly needs sorting as its costing us games.

That said we were beaten on the night by a team who were better than us, wanted the win and they got it. Onwards to next week.

Ganson certainly wasn't 'rubbish'.

He allowed both sides a fair crack of the whip and let the game flow into an entertaining affair, I wouldn't be too worried Hudds fans - you'll bounce back soon enough.

I thought it was forward to be honest when I watched it live and on the slow mo at best level.

I thought we had the better of the second half and should have done better but having said that Cas defended superbly. I thought Rangi Chase was outstanding for them, and at the end of the day the better team won, we just gave ourselves too much to make up.

In a way it was like too many chiefs and not enough indians. If Fulton is going to play then Brown or Robbo has to make way. We have Hodgy who joins as a half in attack and then had Robbo, Brown and Fulton on there as well. In the end we just ran across the line time after time and when we broke through just nipped and did stupid things.

I also think we should have had Crabtree on the bench. Would Jacko have conceded that penalty that Scully did for hanging on to that man that Cas kicked 2 points from? I don't think so.

No one to blame but ourselves and our poor options. We're still dumb, we're still lacking in the halves.

thats a fair summary of the game, but i still dont think cas played well, i believe we played the better stuff, but it means nothing when we leave the game with 0 points. like i said, fair play to cas, they defended well but i feel we were better than the score shows and thats down to panicking when were on the attack and that needs sorting out

Thought Moore's pass was backward but given how we played we probably wouldn't have scored from it anyway. Someone needs to tell them that having the perfect defensive line is great when you haven't got the ball but less good when you have it. There just wasn't any depth to our attack tonight. Too often our forwards were taking the ball standing still rather than bursting from deep.

ATEOTD we just looked too flat from the off. A poor kick and an excellent line on Westerman's run and a stupid pass from Hodgson and we had lost the game before we ever got into gear.

Then when we had a break there was either no support or the wrong option was taken. Castleford scrambled well in defence but we really should have done better.

Seemed pretty much a reversal of the game at the Jungle earlier in the season when Cas had all the possession and territory for most of the game but just couldn't get over the line. Whether that was down to poor attacking play from Cas or great defence from Huddersfield depends on your allegiance.

Cas played far too conservatively in the 2nd half because they had a lead to defend and were able to remember the way they threw it away in the CC quarterfinal. As a result of the one man rugby and ultra conservative play Cas never made much yardage in their sets and left Huddersfield with territorial advantage.

Do any of you guy's think the player involved in the tackle on roughly 55 mins will be up in front of the disciplinary panel this week for use of a graple tackle?

Do you?

Not IMO but other players have been punished for the exact same offence(well Cockayne from our guys in the past few weeks), some consistency would be nice, for a change.

well after a nights sleep i am a bit more chilled.

That however must be our worst performance of the season.

Salford and Hull were bad but there we were just making mistakes dropping the ball ie things you cannot legislate for.

Yesterday we just seemed clueless. Wrong options or usually a lack of options. When Robbo made his break there were two players outside him but in such a short space he could do nothing and when he did pass the ball it was dropped.

Our poor kicking one from Moore and a couple of high kicks from Robbo stand out. Our last tackle options were poor particularly when we ran it twice when there was no gap at all and we just gifted possession to cas.

There were a lack of dummy runners on a lot of plays. Best seen when Hodgson in the second half ran across the line and just went past our players with no one trying to run an angle or give him an option until Fulton woke up and ran back inside.

There were two many changes i think in the centre which would appear to be partly contributed to by Nathan Browns team selection. I would also suggest the players like Eorl and Kirmond are better of the bench whilst Raleigh is better starting.

Who was calling the plays

Brown, Robinson, Hodgson, Moore, faiumu

Who was playing at first reciever etc. Players looked out of position and we were having to throw long passes to find the player who was supposed to be running the play.

The other thing is that we need better decision making when we make a break. They need to decide when to take a risk and when to look for the support player. Confidence seems to be shot and we look for the support player when they should go for it and visa versa.

Our passing WTF. A lesson for training today would be Run with ball, look at player you will pass to, OPEN EYES then pass. kevin Brown and Brett Hodgson please take note.

A lot of our passing was too slow ( a problem we have had for a couple of years).

What were the good points. Commitment and work rate was good after the first twenty minutes, Discipline was good, cudjoe did well on the wing. Robbo looked for very lively and we did not drop too much ball. Whatuira knows how to commit a defender and always looks to to be trying something.

The best positive however is that the SKY shot sof Nathan Browns face suggests that the players will work hard this week and you can guarantee that we will be better next week.

I personally thought Salford to be our worst performance (so far- he adds so as not to tempt fate) because in that game we were completely inept. Last night, despite being poor and not deserving the win, we should have won.

Agree with that Danril, Salford was by far the worst for me too.

Seems like we have a slump after being beaten by the Rhino's again!