That 1st half was a disgrace to the game.
The fact they get away with their dubious tactics is a credit to them and a sad indictment of the game as currently controlled.

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Danny Brough has been an absolute bellend today.

Huddersfield get away with an awful lot at the play the ball that should be penalised. Lots of slowing tactics that make it very difficult for their opposition to get any kind of momentum.
Huddersfield do it very well and then back it up with loads of effort in defence, but it's still not what should be allowed. If Hudds want to slow the play the ball then they need to get more men into the tackle rather than using interference.

Blame Thaler then....

McGillivray should've been sin binned for that high tackle on Dureau. There's no punishment to the team or the player in this case for foul play.

Stuart Cummings lying about the rules yet again. No wonder the refs aren't as good as they could be as he was head of Referees for so long.

2 games in a row Thaler has helped Huddersfield out.

His bizarre video Reffing against Cas then his on field display today

Nothing new there but Thaler let far too much go today.
Someone's really going to flatten Brough sooner or later.

i thought it was salford and leigh that everyone hated and was jealous of




both teams discipline was poor at times not helped by both teams trying to outdo each other

it was a tough hard game, not really sure where the thuggish behaviour was though.

draw was a fair result in the end,although catalans should have been awarded a penalty try

Thaler didn't control the game, and in the second half we saw the results of that. Some strange decisions but we gave as good as we got from Catalans in the first half.

26 men on a field will react to dirty tactics, and there were tactics from both sides.

but yet it was catalans who conceded numerous penalties and were put on a team warning?



we are no different to every other team, the only difference is we aren't clever enough

how exactly did he "help us out" today?

Ignored everything Huddersfield did in the first half and penalised Catalan out of the game then didn't sin bin McGillvary after "tackling" Dureau by the hair. He also didn't order a retake on the kick he missed because Huddersfield weren't behind the line.

Very strange thread. Would it had been here had we not scored in the dying seconds ? my guess is no !!

Thought it was a tough, hard game and we didn't deserve anything in the end not that i'm complaining. As for 'thuggish' ?? how, where ?
Like i said, very strange thread !!!

Ah I see so he didn't really help us out just did what every referee in every game does?

Every ref gives one eyed refereeing performances for Huddersfield do they? That 7-3 HT penalty count was a joke.

Thaler has done it twice in 10 days now so I suppose you're getting used to it though.

Gronk - are you saying the Ref shouldn't have penalised Catalans just to keep the penalty count down ??....as far as i can see, and with ours too, they were all justified !

He was penalising Catalan for things he let Huddersfield get away with (like the dummy half pushing defenders out of the way).

No point being reasonable here though because you'll never think anything other than that farce was fairly officiated.

But doesn't every set of fans complain that happens to them ? Most games you watch a Ref will penalise one team more than an another for the same things. Doesn't make us thugs or anything, we've suffered plenty at the hands of Ref's ourselves. Blame the Ref not our team !

Yes you are different to other teams. Your entire game plan is based around the ruck. It's to slow the opposition's and to get a quick play the ball yourself. That's why you have such a big and effective forward pack.
There's nothing wrong with that approach (personally I'd prefer a more open style but that's personal preference). But that slowing of the play the ball needs to be achieved by putting more men into the tackle rather than through holding down and interference.
At the moment Huddersfield are pushing the line too far with holding down and interference but not getting penalised for it.

Effective forward pack ??? you must watch a different Huddersfield to me !! we'd be a good team if we had one of those

Starbug here

Haven't actually watched the 1 st game , but in the Wire ,Saints game 24 th minute , Ashton Simms continues to hold onto Saints player after tackle completed and Saints player lashed out and connected with an open hand , essentially identical to what Hock did last week , should he have been yellow carded as all were suggesting last week ?

I await the outrage on here

Which is what happens in every game by every team and officials, not sure why you think we deserve criticism for something that is part of the game these days

Just us then? Must have missed every single team using those tactics in the last few years!
As for our forwards being effective? Which of our forwards have you been watching

I await the thread criticising saints and wire for slowing things down

Starbug again

Simple solution to all the slowing down and messing about

Once a player has been put to ground or the ref has called held , defending players should not be allowed to change their grip/hold on the tackled player , if they do , it's a penalty , this would sort out all the issues we are currently seeing including the leaning on and pushing players as they PTB