Wow, just wow !!!!!!!!!

how many repeat sets, how many minutes did we keep em out for......players coming out of the line and nailing man and ball....superb, sensational, wonderful.

Think we scored our try with 7:40 to go so 7 minutes continuous defending atleast?

Think we scored our try with 7:40 to go so 7 minutes continuous defending atleast?

Childs just gave and gave. He was determined to give until they scored.

He was poor. He gave them back to one twice on balls we never played at but did he reciprocate? No. He allowed Wigan far too much time at the PTB too. I know I'm biased but I'm not ridiculous biased. For him to ping us for laying on (Eorl) after the set we'd tolerated with them was sheer hypocrisy.

Yeah he was very uneven in his penalties for holding down

thats what made it better for me, the fact that he did EVERYTHING he could do get them over the line and still failed.........and according to some wigan fans after he kept us in the game and gave us everything !!!! LOL

Child at best today was a joke, he giants defence was as good as id ever seen it, in the last 6 minutes the giants had the ball for 30 seconds wigan had 7 repeat sets and we stood tall!

According to Fielden we had 2 PTBs in 11sets. That's some pressure.

The press and the opposition fans have also publicly recognised how well we defended.

Was hoping the biff , bah and handbags at the end was giving awesome defence a breather as well as running down the clock.

You don't keep out a big ruthless bunch of buggers like Wigan as we did with the number of sets and tackles we had to unless you've defended like demons.

Child showed everything that's wrong with RL today, he could not have tried harder to gift Wigan a try. Penalty count was horrendous against the Giants and they did nothing different to what Wigan were doing. Wigan were offside majority of match, also gave 2 knock ons where the ball hit the tacklers arm as wrapping the player up. Thought this was play on nowadays? He then gave penalty to Wigan where Mcillorum was clearly holding Chan's shirt preventing him getting off, chan was trying to break the hold seen week in week out and it kicked off, first punch thrown by Farrell? I think but they still get the penalty. Don't mind if a ref makes errors cos its everyday life, I have said before refs are not clean as they should be and today does nothing to change these thoughts. 2 weeks on trot now with Hicks last week and Childs today. Today stuck 2 fingers up to dodgy decisions and reffing. The Giants defence was awesome and refused to be done!

Have you ever thought about taking your blinkers off? That is as one sided a post as I have seen.

Got to agree, it was funny how he suddenly decided in the last 10 mins as Wigan were camped on our line that he was gonna start penalising the things he'd gladly let go for the whole of the game !..........I actually said to my mate when we were holding on that we were gonna intercept and go the length of the field to seal it

FFS I was identifying some of the areas that were shocking decisions, course I am biased towards Huddersfield but rather than claim I am blinkered maybe mention some of the things that should have gone Wigans way that didnt, I take it you feel all I have listed were correct decisions then?

The defence was appalling in the first 20 minutes i thought we were going to be on the wrong end of a 6 try hammering but after that it sure did change.

The spirit in the camp was superb and i do not think i have seen that spirit in a Giants side for a long time.

I have to give some big raps to Murphy today. At least 3 superb man and ball tackles that stopped an overlap and probable try although the defence from the whole team was excellent.

I realy did not think we would keep them out and in the last 10 minutes was expecting them to score and bring it down to drop goals to finish it off.

BOTH sides defended superbly. I think we (Wigan) should have been a little more patient in that last 15 minutes. Both your wingers made really good try saving decisions either by getting to the centre or just knocking the ball down. All in a superb game of rugby between two well matched sides.

Awesome defence, lets not get hung up about Child and the standard of reffing. Like DG I was very concerned at 10-0 we defended poorly and gave the ball away too cheaply, but boy did we turn it up after that.

You could see the difference Lunt and Eorl make when they came on, more power and guile and gradually we got back into it. The last 10 minutes of the first half you could see physically what we were doing to Wigan, they were almost out on their feet.

Second half was much the same, we started to dominate possession and once we got our noses in front we inched away from them, in a right arm wrestle.

The last 6-7 minute where immense, in fact it gave me so much pleasure to see the way we defended, time and time again , wave after wave we rebound their efforts on our line.

The cherry on the cake was the last minute try, what a really good win that is.

PS. despite O'Loughlin trying his upmost to take Lunt out, a few cheap shots, and late tackles on him but we prevailed - they clearly see him as the danger man.

On a downside that we really need to sort is the kicking, twice Danny was almost caught and ended in us handing over in an area where Wigan could attack, instead of from their own 20.

ATEOTD it's just 2 points, and we're only in Feb, but a good confidence builder.

Kicking does not need sorting out. It is ok. The reason was that Wigan were on him as soon as he got the ball, but the player hounding Broughy was always out of the blocks early and at least a metre and a half offside at the play the ball which the ref chose to ignore.
He did get plenty away though and they were very good positionally.

Child was poor but got decisions wrong for both sides. The worst ones I saw we're
The ball strip that led to their first try that was clearly dropped
The penalty for dragging into touch when it was the force of the tackle that caused it
The call that Faiumu was not square on our line when he made a perfectly good tackle.

He almost lost the ball twice on a similar play, I'm not convinced they were offside, neither did the ref and maybe Danny should be back a yard or so back to avoid this.

One of the cases Grix had to try and recover and he ended up kicking straight out of touch, which gave the ball back to Wigan in our own half, we do need to sort that out.

The fact there is room for loads of improvement in attack is encouraging as I would be worried if we had hit top form already how they would maintain it for the season

Thought your defence was very good, was sure we were going to score points in the last 10mins but we looked a bit lightweight and predictable, still good defence though, as for Childs he just sums up the problem in our game the same six refs have gone backwards over the last 2- 3 years useless without the screen, with the screen pass everything upstairs, no competition and the standard is dropping fast.

first 5 minutes we put some big hits in then seemed to drop off, a 5-10 minute spell when they scored we looked very shaky,not to mention knackered. after that though our defence was amazing and how they didn't score still amazes me, like has been said 3 or 4 times we shot out of the line and hammered man and ball and we had to as they usually had an overlap.
as for child, awful,simply awful. he chose to completely ignore wigan standing offside and laying on yet then decides to penalise us, and to be fair,wigan shortly afterwards with what were innocous offences.then in the last 10 minutes he decides he will penalise every minor offence he could think off to allow wigan chances to score,thankfully our defence stood firm though. just to even it up i did think we got a couple of decisions go for us,especially the one where jerry seemed to take their man out.
but saying that no matter how poor the officials were,our defence was truly outstanding today!

DEE-FENCE, DEE-FENCE, DEE-FENCE



Awesome final few minutes - last 3/4 of game defence was very, very good. As said above game hinged on Eorl and Lunty taking the field after a dodgy first quarter. Wigan are a very good outfit so to keep them scoreless for as long as we did was immense.

So proud of the team today - far from a perfect performance - but 110% commitment, passion, and determination shown by all in C&G.

They looked like they wanted to win

Biggest difference from the end of last season