I genuinely think Wigan have done well to be challenging for the hub cap with the team they have. Charnley is the only world class player they have. It is a very well drilled squad but without O'brother-in-law & Tomkins completely lacking threat. Loads of overrated players (excellent SL quality but not international) - Farrell (simply not big enough), Hansen, MOssop (what has he ever done to deserve accolades?), McIlorum (aggression & err.. nothing else), Green, Goulding, Smith - some decent kids & quite a lot of pap - Richards, young Tomkins, Thornley, Lauaki, those Welsh lads. Man for man Hudds were on a different planet.

Absolutely correct. That's why the have to play to such a rigid structure which is based around Tomkins coming in to the line, without him their attacking threat is minimal. They don't have the players to create and play off the cuff like other top sides.

We've not won anything yet, LLS or Grand final just 2 points against one of our key competitors.

If we go on to win the LLS I for one will be extremely happy, but as I have said a number of times on here the holy grail is the GF.

Now if we win that after finishing with the LLS then yes we would be in our true sanctuary, mind you the doubters and knockers will trot out the usual you have to back it up tosh, like I'd care.

End of the day we have a big game next weekend against London, we need to turn up and perform, crikey there's another 2 points on offer.

If we beat London

We can secure the LLS at home v Wakey
How sweet would that be?

In theory we could win it next week, if we beat London, Wigan lose in France, and Wire lose to Wakey and Widnes, but don't think we will

We need to beat London next week...that's not a forgone conclusion

One game at a time folks

It would be sweet if we could secure it at home, though a lot has to happen first including us going away to London and coming back with two more points, so as other people have said; one game at a time.

Personally I feel it is going to go down to the last game of the season, that's when the pressure will really be on and that is when we will see what this team is made of. I'll take nothing away from what the Giants did last night though, they looked a bit nervous at the start with some uncharacteristic errors from a few of out consistent performers but they grew in to the game and started to take a bit of control.

Stand out performers for me last night were: Grix, Kopczak and Robinson. It was excellent to see Lunt and Chan back, though Lunt didn't look 100% fit to me.

On a final note, Stuart Fielden: he doesn't look to far away now. Anybody know if we will see him against London?

it would be even sweeter if we were presented with it at odsal just to stick 2 fingers up at all the glory hunting bulls who deserted their home town in search of glory and who ridiculed and abused us for years!
of course these fans wont be there anymore as the glory days of the peoples club are long gone and their team are a skint, lower league shambles.
it would also give me great personal satisfaction as I used to tell these people that one day fartown will be better than their beloved bulls and will win trophies.
let it happen

Totally one game at a time, but I'm already in dreamland! Lol

But if we can't beat London after this weekend it's a bloody poor do
And if we can't beat Wakefield at home it's a bloody poor do.

No disrespect to either club who can and have given us some beatings in the recent past, but we ARE top of the league and they aren't in the top 8

I absolutely hope we have the LLS in our hands after the Wakey game.

Win our next two and its ours. Simple undeniable fact.

if we win our next two that will put us on 42 points

if wire keep winning too they will be on 41 points

so going into the last game at bradford if we lose and wire win they will win the LLS?

Yeah ok, I forgot Wire still had to play

Lets hope Stains and Brown do us a favour, lord knows Brown owes us one

We can win this, I'm convinced, I still can't believe we've done the double on Rhino's Warriors, Saints, Hull FC and Dragons, that's not something you see from the Giants, only really Wolves our bogey team, and we don't have to play them to win it.

Excited? you bet

I feel your excitement and u should be but the harsh reality is playoff football is a whole lot different, it's harder,faster and just pure cruel at times..
History is history but you have crashed and burned in playoffs every year up to date and personally I don't think that will change, but time will tell and ill b the first to say well done the only down side to hudderfield giants is how you can't get more than 6000 at a game been top...

Good video on super league website building up to game, i know its late but i just can't stop watching anything to do with last night! Anyone got a programme they don't want?

we can get 6,000 to a game, just not every game, we have done for the last 3 years regularly until prices went up in the middle of a bad slump.
as for the play offs, we have fayred pretty poor apart from 2010 when we got to within 80 minutes of the grand final and held our own at saints until Cunningham changed the game.
we will deal with the sky competition when it comes around,we are just enjoying something that not many of us have ever experienced before.

who would of said we would of done the doubles over those teams at the start of the season eh... or even in super league ever!

You have every right to be, this is a great chance of huddersfield. If leeds don't make it i'll be rooting for you guys. But I must warn you, playoff rugby at this level, when you're one of the favourites going for trafford, is on another level to anything in the regular season. Obviously you've played in the playoffs before, but not as a team with a genuine chance of old trafford. It steps up a gear in the playoffs.

It does mean nothing though.

Wigan beat leeds at headingley, with a weakened team by 50 points last season. They lost to them, at home in the Grand final semi.

Who you've beaten in the regular season counts for nothing in the playoffs, if anything it adds abit more pressure to hudds because they are coming up against seasoned grand final teams as favourites.

Not every game that's true you have done it 4 times this season so far,
Leeds,wigan,Warrington and bradford which been harsh but true travel well and would have made up most of the over 6000..
Prices have gone up for everyone but still make numbers up....

Every team apart from Leeds and Wakefield are suffering from lower crowds this season.
And all visiting teams to Huddersfield apart from Leeds have brought very few supporters, in fact we take more fans away than a lot of teams now.

means something to me.... loved being there to watch my team beat these teams who used to hammer us every week.

away support numbers have all been below 2,000 so not really making up most of the crowd is it?
we have a hardcore of around 5,000 up from about 2500 6/7 years ago, that's like leeds/wigan doubling their crowds to over 25,000!

people seem to forget this though!

no brearley, they choose to ignore it when it comes to Huddersfield.
we have doubled our attendances, put that logic into effect with other clubs
wigan/leeds should be getting 25,000
hull/wire/saints, 20,000
bradford/hull kr/wakefield 16,000

but it doesn't work that way.