Suppose if there is any game you wouldn't mind playing on a Wednesday night at home it's against the Dragons.It's normally a flat atmosphere at the best of times on a weekend.
Plus gives us an extra days prep over Warrington.

Catalans back to some form at Leigh,but they unfortunately picked up injuries to Burgess & Baitieri.

Got to get a W from this one.

yeh big game so early on in the season this one

catalans doing better away from home which is different!

hope to see cudjoe back and sam wood replace mellor at centre.

not sure if taai will be back which is a blow, we could see mamo make his debut though

Stone has said Leroy could possibly be back - that would get that side of the field ticking again. Might even see Mamo! If mamo does feature then I'd be tempted to put him on the wing initially. The question then is who goes out side the rookie winger who's a bit rusty with a dodgy ankle? - do we put even more rookie wood on the opposite side, turnstile and also quite a rookie mellor, or move smurph inside for a bit of stability?

stone says it's likely symonds and taai back possibly game after.

So that means Leroy had picked up an injury,and not rested which I was wondering about.Probably not been on the top of his form so far but glad to have his experience back at right centre anyway if it happens.

Without wanting to be churlish about what was a good fightback,with Brough back on the left side,St Helens attacked our right edge and it has to be said it was found wanting on defence for the 3 tries.Might have been great rest of the game,I wasn't in attendance.

It might be a good call to get Murphy into left centre and Mamo (if he plays) on the left wing.

Another talking point,without wanting to be negative,two of our tries came from kicks,very good kicks I might add,but the comms said in the first half it was the old failings,lack of creativity or structure meant no points on the scoreboard.

Our attack even now is still a work in progress.

A point gained,hope we can build on that on Wednesday.

cudjoe had that knee problem a few weeks back, obviously still paining him, just have to be managed

mamo to full back for me

sam wood deserves a centre spot ahead of mellor

catalans have lost two of their forwards from the last game so thats bonus for us, fancy a win for this game

mamo, symonds, cudjoe back

feguson , taai out.

stone says mamo could interchange between wing and full back to break him in

We can win this game if we get our heads right, Dragons like to play it rough in the forwards, we have to play it rougher, we are as good as them we just need to believe it.

bookies opened up with catalans as faves for this game, thought the 11/10 on a giants win was generous! others obv felt the same as the betting has switched around.

hope we have a better reaction to our last draw (v wigan) then went and lost at cas!

team id like to see

mamo

mcgillvary
cudjoe
wood
murphy

brough
gaskell
hinchcliffe

ikahihifo
wakeman
symonds
clough
roberts


bench-
rapira
leeming
mason
mcintosh

Shame game isn't played on paper strong side that

luke walsh playing for catalans, the giants nemesis ... always seems to have a good game against us then rubs it in with a drop goal.... need to stop him playing... beat them in the forwards will help

mamo

jerry
cudjoe
murphy
mcintosh

brough
gaskell

seb
hinchcliffe
mason
symonds
roberts
clough

bench
rapira
wakeman
leeming
dickinson

gone for the best team defensively in my opinion to start bring leeming off the bench and scoot from dummy half at a tired defence. chucked mason in there as well let him go out there and prove he should be a starter. easy decision to drop mellor hes been poor, harsh on sam wood but somebody had to miss out

Danny Brough, will he ever learn ? He frustrates me and I'm not a Huddersfield fan !

Will Danny brough play another game without a yellow card,
Will mellor ever bend his back to make a tackle,
Will Gaskell ever catch a ball without spilling it whilst running at the line,
Will mamo and mackintosh ever communicate again
Will an offload ever go into the hands of the person it's meant for instead of the opposition,

For the answer to those questions tune in to another less than thrilling episode of "how to lose a game"
Starring the Huddersfield Giants

It's hard to believe how inept they are jools, they turn the ball over more times on the 1st/ 2nd tackle than they complete a set, Completely beat themselves tonight against a very average side, Worst game iv'e seen Brough play for a long time, the lad defenitely needs a rest.

Gaskell MOM for me, he at least takes the line on at times. Some good breaks once again that come to nothing , simply because they never even look for anyone in support, Endless Knock on's and penalties.
Man for man we were as good as Dragons, as a team we are just nowhere, not even half way there on basic Rugby, Mamo keen to be involved, could work out ok for him , Don't know where we go from there.

Hinchcliffe is the biggest disappointment. Big earner, average player. I would drop him. Move Brough to hooker with Leeming and try Gaskell and Brierley at half back. Mr Stone needs to try something different and quick before its too late.

59% completion rate and 18 errors, brough went for calling ref a c***t while his lad abused touch judge too

That could be a good call, But they still need some basic skills.

Hinchliff is crap. Offers nothing at all - why can't O Brien play?

Rapira another average player on a decent wage.

These two have to be gone at the end of this season surely???

'Crap' is very generous
As is 'average'!

We are playing with a squad of 17 players, only 10 of them are average or above, the rest being championship grade. But the same could be said of several other teams, Wakefield being the best example. But they are coached well. We are not. We can't hide from that, they are not improving or learning from mistakes and the man in charge has to take responsibility for that.

He likes the word responsibility judging from his press conference tonight, so perhaps he now needs to go and have a think about his.

Anyone find the ref to absolutely clueless in all aspects of the game? His indecision was clear to see in just about every decision made, let them get away with all aspects of gamesmanship and holding down to slow us down and never gave a pen and I am still wondering whether he got a rule call wrong.

Mid second half I think we kicked in last tackle toward their goal line. One of their lads jumped and caught it and ref gave a 20 yard re-start. However, the defender definitely jumped from field of play into the in goal area to catch it. Isn't that play on? We were about to tackle him I goal for a GLD but instead they broke straight down our end full length of field (and I think they scored but not 100% sure)

Anyone else recall this and know whether I'm right in my view on the refs decision?

Why does Rick Stone hate Ryan Brierley ? The only 2 games you have won, he's started in each game. Maybe when the 'silver fox' gets sacked, he might get a game or 3.

And in all the other games he's started- we haven't won..... (which by the way, is more than two) go figure!!!!
I would imagine it's because in pretty much every game he's played he's been anonymous.....

I would say that's down to the way we play. He doesn't fit in to our style. Which is a shame, because his potential is brilliant. Another club will snap him up and he'll be on the back end a lot of expansive attacking play.