The one that got away!!

General observations from the open terrace:

Players looked quite dis -interested in the first half

Team spirit looks non existent at the minute

First half tackling was shocking with little direction in attack

Second half better

Great try's from Jerry and Leroy

On field direction in terms of attack poor

Shame Danny didn't have his kicking boots on

Some of the players looked like they had or currently have hearts the size of pea's.

Lots of mutterings of 'something being wrong behind the scene's

Just how does a half decent team turn into that in a few weeks?.

Going nowhere fast at the minute and at this rate we might not make the 8!

Ah well at least the sun's shining eh!

The performances over last few months compared to start of season are as different as chalk and cheese.

Keep hearing all not well behind the scenes, why what's changed.

Fed up of season after season with nowt to show for it though.

The joys of being a Huddersfield fan - !

With a great assist from Bentham

Oh gee's I wondered how long it would take!. You won FFS! get over it - as I said great try.!. You still have a winge about Mr BENT ham - he is a hoyser - always has been.

You had your fair share from Mr B!. Put your dummy back in , enjoy your win and good luck against Leeds.

I see you lost your sense of humour at the game. All he did was run in a straight line with Betham as a blocker. Nice rant. I don't think your dummy has landed yet it got spat so far.

Rant? - oh you mean when he used Bentham as a blocker for the full 80 metres - ah right got ya!

You were second best all game and never once took the lead.

erm yes I know

It's a tactic been used for years, you run towards the ref and this gives you half a yard, then you have to exploit it, which Jerry did.

Best team won though, we just couldn't get our noses in front, never put them under pressure, mind you it was an improvement on last week, which isn't saying alot.

well... we let a team who on paper weren't as good as us, out enthuse us, tackle harder and get up from the line quicker than us.... it would have been a travesty if we had won !! they should have been 24-0 up at half time we were lucky to be in it but get back to 12-10 and let danny orr a veteran at best walk in unopposed under the posts.... three out of the four tries were defensive howlers three men hanging on the winger he scores.... same with the second and i've said enougn about danny orr, we are in decline.... took us till the 30th minute to get going...dropped ball, crap passing, three interceptions.... this was virtually the side that beat them 40-18 six weeks ago.... no rain no excuse ..its about time for answers or some serious changes as GRAND FINALISTS we are not !!!!!!! in fact barely top 8 on today !! time tyo ask some serious questions of the players and the coach as our support was fantastic... but let down AGAIN !!!!

Same old same old. season after season after season!!!!

Can't see many rushing to save up for season tickets next season, in fact can see a few going on holiday instead of saving up for one

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To be fair we have improved season on season, we've come off the rails somewhat and god knows why, but lets be fair, we are 4th still. I'd hoped for a good cup run but it didn't happen

Now let's see if Nathan can fix things in the league.

Defence was pathetic in the first half. Sad to say summed up by Jermaine's missed tackles. Only robbo, Kyle wood Grix came out well. Attack was pitiful, crabbing across the pitch most of the time. Did we break a tackle?

Just to put a dampener on things wardle came out to the bus on crutches. Thought kirmond played well at centre!

Out enthused .................................again...........story of our season now i'm afraid !!

must admit i didnt think we were out enthused or that bad today, overall i thought it was a good game with 2 committed sides, 4 trys each summed it up, cas better by a whisker maybe, better goalkicking won the game.the way we celebrated after each try didnt look like a poor team spirit, when we lost at cas earlier in the year we were far worse than today to me when we were supposedly a better team, get a grip to me accept we lost a close game on goal kicks.

If brough would have got those kicks it would have been a travesty! We certainly did not deserve the win today!

Well it's closer to his original position on the wing than prop forward!!!!

In the forwards Eorl & Griff ran with power.

Robbo & Wood did a lot of probing.

Grix tried ut should have passed more - perhaps he knew that if he did sod all would have happened.

Hodgy played his usual competent game.

Jerry didn't get the ball much - as usual these days.

Some players were downright awful - I'm not going to name them in public.

In one sense it was just like watching J Sharp's game plan - one man drive down the middle. Compare that to Saturday when both teams fluidly passed the ball along the line - even in defence.

Never mind watching a repeat of our game, the players should spend ALL their time watching repeats of Wire v Wigan - & I'm a devout Wigan-hater!!.

Missed Fooey out of the credits list.

To suggest players are not putting effort in is ridiculous. They tried as hard as they could yesterday. What they are lacking is confidence both in attack and defence. We are failing to build pressure due to taking wrong options and dropping too much ball. I feel that when they are behind this gets worse as they start to panic.
I also do not believe we are having the bounce of the ball. Twice they put in kicks that looked to be going dead but at the last minute span back into play helping them keep us under pressure.
Twice IMO we had 40/20's. Unfortunatly the ref and touch judges did not agree. These decision can change games and when you are not playing well you do not seem to get any of the 50/50 calls.
They do need to work on line speed and goal line defence. Also they are letting the opposition make too many yards after the initial collison as we are not stopping their players legs from driving forward.
In attack we will impriove if we are more patient and play our sets out. It showed the odd time we did get down to Castleford end how easy it was to score but too often through mistakes and the wrong option we failed to do that.
Using a player of Ferguson's size as a first hit up battering ram is totally unfair on him and he is bound to struggle he needs to be running wider out and the big men should be taking the drives.
I do believe though if we can grind out a win the confidence will return and we can get the season back on track.

I think we also lack a proper leader of men on the park.