The key thing for our three quarters is do we have someone to play centre so that Moon can go back to HB? Got to see if Golding & Sutcliffe return yet. With the latter, because he's suffered 2 concussions back to back may it mean him being stood down for longer?

Briscoe had a dead leg that he still managed to play with on Monday so I reckon he'll be ok to go for Hudds. Not heard much on Golding, a thigh injury could be the trickier one to overcome and might be more likely we're looking at Walker at FB again rather than wing.

I thought Golding had a hamstring strain?
Wrt Moon we can always move him back to Centre with Mags/Lilley at 6/7 & Burrow on the Bench it should be enough v the Giants.
Our BR options are looking pretty thin so id be looking at Ward Delaney & Jjb if all are fit.
Id go with
Golding/Walker
Briscoe/Handley
Watkins
Moon
Hall
Mags
Lilley
Cuthbo
Parcell
Galloway
Ward/Singo
Delaney
Jjb

Garbutt
Singo(if Ward fit)
Burrow
Baldwinson/Ormanroyd

Would like to keep moon and McGuire together.

Hopefully Sutcliffe is back to play centre if not Handley is another option.

As would I. Surprised that Hudds aren't playing their cup game until tomorrow, giving them just 4 days turnaround. They are resting Mamo, McGillvary, Hinchcliffe, Symonds and Brough is suspended but they still have 12 guys in their 19 that played twice over Easter.

Mamo looked quick in the clips I saw.

Mamo is a good player and very fast. I was surprised the knights let him leave.

There is no bigger fan of Walker than me but he is nowhere near ready for SL at this stage. Lets not rush him. Hes quality but needs time to develop.

For those fans who saw Walker for 1st time last night and was pleased with what they saw wait til you see Harry Newman the 17 year old centre in u19s. A really class player.

Hudds just lost 24-28 at home to Swinton in the cup. Will Rick Stone still be in charge by Thursday? They had around 10 guys playing that I'd expect to be in the 17 for Thursday injuries permitting, although Ikahihifo was sin binned along with a Swinton player early in the 2nd half so might be missing.

Hopefully the clown is still in charge for one more game



Who do they go for? McNamara may well be a good fit for them.

McNamara does have the link of being a former player there but if you were him would you go there as they are at the minute? Much made of our clubs progression over the last few years but that truly is a club that has gone massively backwards. Only have one or two good things going for them such as McGillvary and you have to wonder how long he's prepared to stay there when he could go to a club challenging for trophies and strengthen his England chances.

I agree they look in a real mess. I think it depends whether the chairman there is willing to back the next coach, they do need big changes and pretty much a clean slate if they manage to get through middle 8s which it looks they will be now. One thing is for sure, the next appointment has to be a good one or Huddersfield could find themselves back in the wilderness again pretty quickly.

Yeah definitely need to make their next appointment spot on (presuming that Stone doesn't last much longer). HKR are going to be a serious threat to whoever ends up in the bottom 4 of SL (looking like Widnes, Hudds, Leigh and another).

Hudds could easily end up doing what HKR did last year. Those two clubs remember finished 3rd and 4th in 2009 behind only ourselves and Saints and comfortably ahead of the likes of Wigan, Wire, Cas and Hull.

I think that KR will gain promotion back to SL so one of the current SL clubs will go down. At the moment it's looking pretty hopeless for both Leigh and Huddersfield unless they can turn it around soon.

Leigh and Huddersfield replaced by TO and Hull KR would do me

i'd like leigh to stay up. decent crowds and good away following. Huddersfield offer nothing

Castleford lost to Hull today. Gale failed a head test so will be doubtful for their game against Wigan in 6 days. Decent chance we could be outright top of the table this time next week.

Who'd have thunk that after Cas handed us our collective arrisses......I reckon some silverware may be coming our way this season.....hope that's not the kiss of death.

I still thought we could make the playoffs after the Cas defeat, level on points at the top at this stage is better than I thought though.

Don't know yet if we'll win any silverware as it can come down to fine margins and IF we make any finals that'll be the matches we'll miss Sinfield and Peacock the most. But we're looking in a good position to make the top 4 and ourselves and Wigan do have the playoff experience over the likes of Cas and Hull.

Previous 2 years of the Super 8's system, the team in 4th after 23 rounds have been on 28 points, so for us that's 6 wins from our remaining 12 which is very much achievable and a realistic target of 8/9 wins from 12 would leave us very well placed entering the Super 8's.

The upcoming month features some tough tests with Catalans away, without Watkins and Hall who'll be playing for England. Magic weekend vs Cas and another double game weekend for teams to get through with Warrington on the Friday and Widnes on the Monday again for us.

The cup can be a bit of a lottery with regards how the draw goes and who goes long into that competition could drop league points as a result especially the winners as ourselves and Hull have done in the last 2 years.

Given the shape of it I'm not surprised.

If the Giants do go down then i think that they could be finished as IMO Ken Davy seems to have given up on his ambitions for the club and tbh their crowds never really reached any great numbers when they were relatively successful,so maybe he has finally called it a day with his financial outlays

Moving forward could the Giants take the option to sell out and revive under an out of town franchise?
Would Ken Davy take the money and run?

I would be seriously worried if I was a Giants fan at this present time

He has certainly failed the Hair comb over job!


How long does it take for him to cover that forehead with his comb overs?

Tend to agree though I do worry that they'll put in a performance against us, much like wire did when Smith was seen by many as drinking in the last chance saloon.

Think Huddersfield's woes also show you should be careful when thinking Aussie coaches will be the solution. For every Michael Maguire or Nathan Brown you can get a Craig Sandercock or Rick Stone.

You say that, but Stone's track record was terrible. He got a chance at Newcastle, another team that was in need of a rebuild, and did just as bad leading them to the wooden spoon.

I refer telling a mate of mine who's a Hudds fan at the time they wouldn't get anywhere with him.

I do wonder whether Davey would go through it again if Hudds do get relegated which would be a shame because they have come miles from where they were and i think it would be undone pretty quickly in the championship. I think HKR are at danger of that too, fans have stuck with them this year but i dont think they will next year and the year after.

Saying that, Hudds havent been that bad. Todays result is a bit of an embarrassment but they only lost by 2 v wire, 7 v Les Catalans, drew with Saints, drew with Wigan. Well capable of turning it round.