GAME ON : Huddersfield Giants v Hull FC - 20:00:00

GENERAL CHAT ABOUT THE GAME, BUILD UP, THE ACTION AS IT HAPPENS AND AFTERMATH BELOW.

Jamie Shaul, Gareth Ellis and Liam Watts all missing for Hull FC. Pack weakened, but still have Taylor, Manu, Pritchard, Minichiello in the pack so hopefully we will still be too strong.

Can see us slipping up here, as minds wander to the semi final. However, if we win, and Wigan lost to Catalans, we will have a 4 point gap at the top

Huddersfield have just looked so poor in attack for a while now that it's difficult to see them getting anything out of this one. In our [url=http://www.rlbet.co.uk/huddersfield-giants-v-hull-fc-300616-preview/preview[/url we've gone for Hull FC by 16

We will beat them and their season will come crashing down in them



No brough, wardle,smith, huby, Grix,simpson, ikahihifo for us, if were going down that road.

We can't really say Grix and Simpson though.

Simpson wouldn't be playing anyway, and Isn't Grix just dropped and used as a scapegoat by our coach to keep the fans happy?

Anyway... Hull won't have the cup on their minds however much a small portion of there fans, the media and the commentary might say.. Because they are are in an amazing position in the league and this game is massive.
They will be fired up.
We only have victory in mind too.

Hull are deserved favourites but the better team on the day will win. Even though I want Hull to win the shield this year I hope we get that desperate win we need!

Hope it's a great game. Hull will outnumber us most likely so let's up they have nothing to sing about!

Hull to win by plenty. I didn't think I'd be saying that this time last year, saying that I didn't expect to see my team in the top eight and in the CC semis,m

Well we don't look fired up to win at the moment. We look knackered and lethargic

Bit of a dull game, not a lot of excitement in that first half. Giants seem to have a better kicking and thats the difference between the two sides.

What a joke this referee is.

What a brilliant game this ref is having. New ones are showing the old ones up.

Huddersfield deserve to be winning but you can find fault with every try scored tonight or at least into the build up.

Aye you can - that's down to Hulls defence and discipline.

Hudds just appear more enthusiastic this second half. How that try though wasn't sent up, or seen by the lines man as a knock-on I don't know.

If you can't match the power of Hull's forwards then turn them around by kicking early and hope for the best.

Hull didn't seem at the races but we was times smarter tonight.

Ref was garbage, some glaring errors.
Way to put Hull off their game? Wind them up. Sika Manu say no more...

Soon as I heard Grix was out for a while I thought Hudds would improve no doubt!
If HKR fail to beat the Wire tomorrow, I think we're dead certs to finish last.

Or slow down the play the ball, which is something we heavily rely on.

Worst Hull performance of the season tonight for me. At least at Widnes we played them when they were full strength and bang in form. Tonight we were absolutely clueless on how to counteract Huddersfield slowing down the play the ball.

No qualms for me best team by a mile won.

A bit one eyed on the slowing down the ptb. Both sides did it and the ref allowed it for both sides. I agree the ref was shocking-some really basic errors such as allowing a ptb on the line after he's signalled held up instead of taking it back. it's not often a ref is booed off at the end by the winning sides supporters!

Not at all, I didnt say Hull didnt do it and I dont think Huddersfield did it illegally anyway. Just saying if you get our forwards on there backs we usually end up in a rut we cant get out of.

It was the crucial mistakes which annoyed me by the referee. They were two Huddersfield tries that came on the back of wrong decisions by the referee and one by Hull. Wouldnt have changed the result but it must mentally have an effect on players when they get back into a game to have a couple dubious decisions go against them. Makes it worse when the muppets from sky pass them over as not critical making our sport look a mockery to any new viewer.Some of the decisions over the past few weeks have being laughable IMO and is rubbing off on players who end up getting frustrated rather then producing the goods. We havent seen a high quality fast flowing game for a long while now.

Huddersfield's early kicks, turning FC round plus, a much improved defence was the main difference.
It's all getting interesting at the bottom of the table !

I was there last night and although Huddersfields defence was pretty strong, we created nothing. There was no movement, no change of line, no intensity from Hull. We looked like we were knackered (which given we played a big Catalans side 5 days ago on a pitch that the players said was awful to play on could be the reason for that)

At the end of the day, after 10 unbeaten, a winning streak is always going to come to an end at some point, and i would rather it be a thursday night away game against a desperate team, in poor weather, than in a cup semi final!