Dufty
Thewlis
Mata’utia
Ratchford
Ashton
Williams
Drinkwater
Mikaele
Clark
Vaughan
Holroyd
Currie
Harrison

Bullock
Kasiano
Minikin
Walker

Coverage on Radio Merseyside

Mata’utia in from a kick by Williams on our first attack.

Kick to wire

0 : 8

Giving a fair few 6 again and penalties, luckily so far Giants not making anything from it.

Half time 8-0 need to tidy up in the 2nd half.

Richard Marshall seems to have done some great work on defence, but we need to stop giving away free gifts.

Hudds first game though, so they may start to blow a bit but we need to get better territory and put them under pressure.

Defence great so far but need to stop giving cheap possession away.

Try wire, kick good

0 - 14

6 -18 wire. Try ashton. Kick to come

Ashton intercepts, thankyou and goodbye

6-26

10-26
Kick missed

16-26

Switched off or did the penalties and defence in 1st half catch up with them.

Another good win tonight. Shame about the 2 late tries conceded but gives us something to work on.

16-26 FT. Wire win. 2/2.

Shame about those last 2 tries but incredibly encouraging. It was Hudds first game but only our 2nd with a virtually new squad. Radio Merseyside saying we played really well and that Huddersfield were good too.

Also, credit to the 1500 fans who made the trip.

2 out of 2 and this result is terrific (Hudds had best home record last season I think).
Onwards and upwards.

Thats a far more significant victory than last week.

The two late tries you can put down to sheer exhaustion on the back of a lobsided set restart count, feverish defence and early season heavy legs.

A genuine statement win.

Top win against a team tipped to do well.. keep it up boys

Good win for Wire, at a venue where I can`t see many other away teams returning home victorious.

Tremendous resilience from the lads, given Mr Kendall`s interpretation of the 6 again rule, in the 1st half

Very happy with the performance, we did concede 2 late trys, but the game was already ours by then.

Young Holroyd played OK and held his own against a decent set of forwards but was substituted in the 2nd half with Matautia` moving into the 2nd row and Minikin playing centre.

Another big performance by Jimmy Harrison.

Wire were impressive tonight in a totally different way to last week.

The first half defensive display was truly immense.
OK so we contributed a little with pens/knock ons in that period of the game, but to come off at HT 8-0 after defending 5 or 6 sets on our own line - well I've not seen that for a long time.

We also slipped up and switched off a little towards the end allowing them in for 2 quick tries, and the scoreline on the whole was fair imo.
If it had been 26-6 that would have flattered us.

Huddersfield definately restricted us in the first half so fair play to their forwards. In the 2nd half Pryce caused us a lot of trouble.

Pleased for Ratch. He kelp Naiquaima fairly quiet for most of the night, and 5 out of 5 goal kicks can't be faulted.

One frustrating thing for me and fans around me was that the ref seemed to give a lot of 6 agains etc and it was really difficult to see why.

MOM?
Really not sure. Kasiano made a big impact when he was on and scuttled a few - some great handling for the Harrison tey.
Harrison played really well.
Danny Walker seemed to have a good game too.

Nope - can't make my mind up.

Ashton MOM for me - sound under high ball, great defensive reads, and great dummy for his first try.

Harrison or Ashton for me but there were 8/10s all over the field. I put the last two tries down to fatigue as our edges had had to work very hard in defence, especially Matautia and Ratchford. A very enjoyable evening's entertainment.

The Merseyside commentators mentioned more than once about the present Huddersfield team being content to stick in games & grind out even late wins. It really was a great first half defensive effort from the Wire though that won the game.