Well what do we think of that then?
Perfect settings to reclaim outright top spot, Wigan missing 3 props, away, against a lively giants crowd and they can't seem to convert from anywhere if its wide of the posts.
Two inventive kicks early doors could have had us 12 nil up if they had come off.
A missed pass by George could have gotten us over for another.
Think we looked a little out of gas in defence in the last quarter.
But hey ho 2 points behind the leaders with an easier run of games coming up. Keep the faith, hopefully we will have all the little things that went against us tonight ie bounce of the ball will come off for us when it matters most the play offs and semi final! Up the fartown!

Better team won . Fewer errors and stronger in defence. Score line was a fair reflection.

The chicken balti pie was nice tonight.

I did like the team huddle at end of the game. I think the team are well bonded.

A lot of injuries tonight though - jerry , robbo , larne , grix and chan too I think.

Tasty balti pie! Mmm! Wonder how long they last in the away stand? I agree good to see the team huddled at the end shows they are not disjointed! Let's hope the boys ain't to bad injury wise! Thankfully we have easier sides to face starting the salford lot!

Was quite close until that dropped high ball and then Wigan ran away with it, thought we had too many off injured early on and Moore only playing 20 or so. Think the lads on the park were playing long minutes and that told in the end, the better team won.

I'm actually not too despondent as we bombed a few chances first half, and had we got those we could have won it.

1-1 so far in the head to head, so would have taken that, yes lost 2 points tonight but I think we'll be there or thereabouts come the business end of the season.

When we conceded that try from the dropped ball it just seemed to deflate us. this season we've usually been quite good at responding to things like that but Wigan scented blood and took the game away. Even early doors though we didn't look quite right. The break which ended with Leroy passing into touch was a prime example.

The Eden drop was the game turner. Up unti
Then it was fairly even.

A deserved Wigan win for me. Very few errors and Leului was spot on in the kicking department.

A nice run of games coming up now salford, Widnes and Hull KR. Six points is essential.

This is spot on! On a different day these chances would have been taken. The objective now is to create the chances and fine tune it so they come off come the play offs and semi final! Create the chances and you give yourselves a shot against anybody!

Another thing that shot by Lima, started ok but after initial collision seemed to explode his elbow out in a rather dangerous manner? Anybody else think it was a tad poor play? Although he did run up to him to after the final hooter, I assume to check fiaumu was ok.

Wet and cold. Again. When does summer rugby start please ?

Injuries messed up our subs Bench but thought we missed both wardle and mason tonight.

Wigan look a cut above the rest this season, your guys had a good go though,

Watch it on TV and you'll see it was a clash of heads.

Seriously?

Looked elbow to me at the time and on replay.

Definite head clash. He hits him in the chest with his arm and he's clear of Lima when the elbow is up. I assumed that the replay wasn't clear at the game because of the booing he received but there really wasn't anything in it.

Shot? It's not often that the person being tackled gets described as a effecting a "shot", especially when it ends in a clash of heads from which either player could have been injured.

Replays have nothing to do with crowd reaction



Im more concerned that Thaler looked at the video screen for Sam high shot where Leroy and Jermaine clashed heads yet didnt give a penalty at the time but never went for that one, he seemed to pick his moments for a few decisions.

The Sam one was a clear high tackle and penalty to Wigan, the Lima one was an accidental head clash with nobody to blame. He got both decisions right. Also note that in both incidents Wigan players were the ball carriers which means Huddersfield players have the responsibility to safely effect the tackle.

Giants owned by a wigan team that never got out of 2nd gear , the decision to send Lunt to Leeds looks laughable right now .

Spot on, it was a clash of heads, overall I thought the ref had a decent game, a couple of decisions, was harsh, the one where Robbo got a couple of high shots yet Thaler gave it as a knock on, and I thought the ball strip on Brown.

Wigan was the better team and won, but I think the first team to score at 12-16 was going on to win and you had 8 mins where you scored 3 tries.

Wigan were ruthless in exploiting weakness in the Hudds defensive line. They spotted Grix a lot and made good ground and quick PTB's through him, and once they are on the front foot it's difficult to stop them.

I have to say Kev Brown had a terrible game in defence. He was very passive on both Charnley tries and allowed firstly Tomkins and then O'Loughlin to get easy ball out to Goulding, O'Loughlin in particular he could have got to. And then in the second half he was very weak against Farrell for his try and then Lima at the end, was shrugged off far too easily after the collision.

Well sad and disappointed we lost. But not too despondent . We can and mostly have played much much better than that this season. Last night Wigan were good , and too many of our players under performed on the night, plus had to put in long minutes.

This season we have won some games when playing poorly ( the sign of a good team ) but against wigan we needed a great performance.

Will be a saints fan next Sunday too.

Hudds did have the opportunity to score a few which they bummed but howmany did Gelling fluff for Wigan. Both sides werent as clincal as the could have been and had we had Pat in the team i think those scores would have been converted as well as the conversions. The score could have looked very one sided which would not have been a fair reflection of the game as Hudds looked strong for two thirds of the game.

The first half was a cracker and it seemed like anyone game. However Huddersfield then seemed to fall away on the 50 mins mark and completely lost their way. For me Huddersfield still havent learned how to slug it out against the big teams. If you factor in Pat Richards playing, and a probable 2 extra tries that we would have got, and our dreadful kicking we could have easily won by a lot more in the end.

And IF (which is a big word) we had taken our chances we could have maybe won



Nowhere near our best last night and we couldn't produce the flair we've shown this season due to the weather but the game changer was Eden's dropped ball after his try. Add to that we just didn't get the bounce of the ball last night ie Giants chip over and the ball doesn't bounce up for Eden. Wigan kick a long ball that looks to be going out yet then decides to turn a corner and stays in forcing us to knock it out. Nothing went our way, we had too many player not at the top of their game last night and the best team won. On a drier day with the odd bounce of the ball we could have inflicted the same scoreline on Wigan. It was one game, no trophies won from it.

As an aside, credit wheres it due, they really do have a cracking away support, they never shut up, helps when your in the noisiest stand as well, something for the rest of us to aspire to, no one gets near em at our place.

Though you crucify "Just cant get enough"

Yeh they do help create a great atmosphere. Some of our fans might as well be cardboard cut outs.

You're not far off. I would say that you are the best side we have faced this season. Perhaps it is just a mental thing now. The first game of the season wasn't a big game, but last night was a real chance to show that you mean business for the rest of the season.

I thought both sides played some quality rugby for the 1st 55 mins or so, espicially in the conditions. and then the Carmont try changed the game, and we stepped up a gear and pulled away. If we play as well next week Saints will get a good hiding.