I think it's time to move on now. We lost.
Hopefully we'll learn not to switch off in the last couple of minutes as we did against Saints because of a bad decision. We could if still won the game after Bentham decided the drop goal didn't go over.

It was a much improved overall performance from us. One we should use to help us kick on and focus on the rest of the season starting on Thursday against Hull.. If we feel sorry for ourselves we'll lose.
Bring on the challenge to claim the other silverware on offer.

They're hardly going to be in a better frame of f mind than us after their loss to Salford and although they have had the rest it could be s game where the team that starts better wins because the other starts feeling sorry for themselves and under performs. A real test of both sides character.

cant move on, still fuming

bentham should be stood down for a few games.

we are out of the cup because of him!!!!! the players played their hearts out yesterday and some will be leaving at the end of this season, might of been their final chance to get to wembley or win something. faiumu was in tears

Yes time to move on, but still smarting from some of Benthams decisions yesterday.
Why didn't the incompetant clown go to the video ref for the Danny DG, he went "upstairs" for every other score we had




Why did he penalise Jerry when the Saints player had clearly lost control of the ball and was more bothered about getting it back under his control than getting up




Why penalise Wardle who was being held down/back by Lomax




Why was the Lunt try disallowed




How come Saints players clearly in offside positions weren't penalised when we were going for a DG after the clown in the middle had been penalising us for fun




I don't pay good money to go to a match to watch it decided by an inept arrogant clown in the middle, unfortunately the RFL couldn't give a monkeys and don't see the need to improve the standards of our officials and clowns like him and Childs are allowed to carry on regardless. Hope we don't get either of these 2 incompetent clowns again this season, let the fans sticking up for Bentham after yesterdays performance suffer him and the other incompetant idiot Childs for the remaining games of the season.
Anyway, I thought we played well yesterday, after a slow start we picked our game up and could and should have won what was a good/exciting game of RL regardless of the clown in the middle. Carry on improving like this and we'll be there or thereabouts at the end of the season.
No doubt I'll have calmed down before Thursday's game, unless that is we get one of the afore mentioned clowns officiating.

No. You are out of the cup because Ferres got himself sent off.

Get over it

I'm sure Anderson will make sure they're over it (even if I'm not!!). I was worried about the short turn around before the Hull game considering they would have the full week, but now I'm quite happy. Best thing that can happen is to get straight back out there.

Interesting game this, both clubs will be smarting from close cup losses. Hull have home advantage with a significantly longer recovery period between games and I think we should be looking to win this fixture, assuming we can sort our right edge defence out which has been awful this season and a real Achilles heel for us. If we can be in the game with 20 to go your team should fatigue with the short turnaround and we should go onto win it. Ellis back and Ferres out only strengthens this argument.

With the game on TV and on a Thursday night, I imagine an even poorer away attendance by Huddersfield than usual, which would be disappointing considering you finished top of the league last year.

Sick of moving on! I'm sick of it! Why don't we stand up show out disgust! That is why the Fanzine are getting a protest going! Things need to change in our sport!

We will move on, it just takes a bit of time to get over what happened to us yesterday, but we will be at Hull on Thursday to see what the RFL can throw at us this week.

And yes it will be a poor away attendance, blame SKY for making fans travel on Thursday night's, and the fact we finished top last year is irrelevant, if people choose not to go to Hull on a Thursday night then that's their choice. a loyal handful will be there !!

Hope everyone who does manage to get over to Hull supports the protest!

I think the team needs to look at the areas they can control in order to close games out, there were opportunities in that game to take it further away from Saints and it not come down to a drop goal.

For example the penalty that they decided to run instead of kick, despite being a team that kicks at goal more than any other. Add in Danny Brough's kicking in general which has been off all season so far, moments of brilliance followed my moments of madness.

The McGillvary incident was unfair and he should not have been penalised, but acting petulant and not professional only exasperated the situation.

For the majority of that game the Giants were on top and it wasn't just a case of Saints not playing well, it was a case of the Giants not allowing them to play well. They need to repeat that to win on Thursday and get a bit of confidence.

Time to move on, there is a lot of season ahead.

I can see why they elected not to kick- we've chosen that route and it's backfired a few times this season! Hindsight is a wonderful thing....

Discipline is a real issue- and I think it's being coached as the academy lads were equally as ill sciplined on Saturday and it cost them. Field position should not be handed to a team because you give away silly penalties.

We lost because a perfectly good drop kick was not given (you get a point for it, you don't get points taken off you when a man gets sent off, get over that), the only camera that can determine the kick is the one directly behind the posts, all the others are at an angle too far away.

Some Saints fans are adamant it didn't go over, but they would lead you to believe that, despite the best camera shot showing it clearly did.

Luke Walsh who was stood to the side of Bentham, said in his post match interview he thought it was over, he knows it won't change anything, but he had the honesty to admit he thought it was over.

We can't do anything about it, Saints will go through to the next round, irrespective of what anyone thinks/says, it's a pity Bentham doesn't come out and say he got it wrong, but silence is golden eh.

Agree with this. Time to move on. I'll be at Hull to support as usual but will be no part of any misguided "protest".

I think this protest is a bad idea for a few reasons mate:

1/ It indicates the wrong sort of mindset - 'man up' and achieve despite adversity or show weakness.
2/ The reflection of point 1 on the fans and the club is pretty negative
3/ It will achieve nothing
4/ The trolls will have a field day/week/month!

From a neutral perspective watching the match from over 225 miles away on the box. I was on the edge of my seat. I rushed home from work to see this game and am glad that I did. What a great spectacle this match was. The BBC, The RFL the Clubs and the Fans have a great product on their hands in the Challenge Cup. If this match was in the hands of Rugby Union, Soccer or Athletics commentators I wonder what the perception, interpretation and presentation of the action would be.
Huddersfield Giants have gone from easy beats to one of the most watchable RL sides on the Television and this game will have been seen by hundreds of thousands. Whilst that may be of little compensation in the wake of defeat, maybe Giants can take a few lessons from this game and come out stronger.

Agree with all of them plus can i add number 5 - the effort put into it is effort taken away from supporting the boys on the field - they need it this week and as there will only be a handful of us over there it seems daft to waste potential support for the team to have a go about something that we will NEVER influence !

Why should he? He didn't.

This opinion is separate to the fanzine so please do not associated it to the fanzine:

The opinions on the protest to me show why Huddersfield Giants will never get anywhere! You lot are so happy to get walked all over by the RFL and never do anything about it! And when someone try's to stand up and be counted all you can do is slate them for it! Call it 'petty' and 'stupid'. You lot have made me feel like an idiot for trying to get things to change and I'm sick of it! Clubs like us, Hull KR and Widnes get done by the refs and the RFL year on year and no one ever does anything about it! So the one time a fan try's to get things to change and make things change in a sport we love they get told to 'Shut up and move on'! How long must we have to say 'move on'? How long will we get picked on by the powers that be?

I see on so many forums the thread 'Why isn't RL more popular than RU?' Or 'Why is RL seen as a minority sport?' Well attitudes amongst fans are the exact reason! While other sports fans demand change in the sport through protest and boycotting, we say 'We won't change anything'! Well maybe enough people got behind a cause then things would change!

I know no one will listen because I am just one fan with one 'stupid' view, but I hope you take this on board!

I was still very bitter yesterday. However I have woke up today and I'm over it.

I'm happy with the performance overall and think that when we start closing games out we will be ok.

Let's put it into perspective. It's only a game. A game we all love. But all the same still a game.

I will be at Hull but will not be anywhere near a protest.

It will not achieve anything apart from making us look like sore losers and to be honest I think we would look stupid.

Let's get behind the team and hopefully our season starts Thursday.

agree with the idea of a protest being a bad one.
while i also agree with feefifofum's sentiments, i feel that a protest will do no good whatsoever, we won't change the way games are officiated, we have to accept that we are going to get severe inconsistencies regarding how officials referee us in particular and try and be above that and win games where we feel we have been wronged.
i admire your sentiment in trying to organize a protest but in my eyes it will be futile an will make us more enemies and cause more sneering amongst the majority of the RL community who are still finding it hard to come to terms with huddersfield being good!
feel free to protest in whatever way you think is right, but i think this is one thing the fans won't get behind.

i am like daz and others, let us put our energy in supporting our boys in what is going to be a very tough super league game.
let's get as many fans as we can to hull,let us sing,shout,clap stamp our feet and wear our colours with pride ( and don't forget the scarves!) and let's make others think that we are good fans for turning out and backing our boys rather than protest about something that will never change.

it wasnt just a game like a regular season game though was it, this was the challenge cup!!!!!! only 3 trophies to win in a season LLS/cup/GF

I'm aware of that. However, it's sport and its life.

Don't let it eat away at you mate.

i wont but when you spend hard earned cash and follow the team all over only to get robbed of a chance to go to wembley again to watch the giants its not so easy to just move on ...but it will pass ofcourse!

Get over it- like Leeds had to get over the magic weekend debacle, or the controversial Wigan "try" in the final, or hull being knocked out by a dodgy decision a few years ago.
Let's hope this spurs the lads on to bigger and better things.