Wonder how we will play this one ?

Will we go for it ?

Will we take the opportunity to give some players some game time ? Doubtful if Ta’ai and Gaskell will play after an injury on such a short turn around which creates some opportunity although Matagi would be a natural replacement.

Hopefully SW doesn’t do a Rick Stone and play a very inexperienced side I still blanch at that 80 mins against Swinton.

On what we have seen this season so far we can give anyone a game and our tenacity might do very well in a sudden death cup tie and given a decent draw or two who knows ?

Bearing in mind the Wigan loan players won’t want to be cup tied they may be right down to the bare bones?

Be interesting to see the squads tomorrow.

For me we need to go with the best side we can field, usually when you start to think you can take things easy something comes back to bite you. The Wolfpack have shipped some points no doubt about it, but they are far from the worst team i have seen. We need to take this very seriously , we have lost to some lowly sides in our time. IMO try to rack some points up, besides which i could do with another trip to Wembley.

Me personally, I'd rather put our focus on the Hull game, the league is a huge focus for us at the moment, so I'd rather we give some of the fringe lads a run out and see how they cope against a desperate toronto team

6 more wins at least and we will be safe. A decent cup run will do our confidence good- for me saying we should focus on the league gives the players the wrong message about the confidence in their ability to continue this run of form.
I would play Full strengt II h squad barring injuries, Russell for gaskell and walne for taai. Holmes on the bench to give OB a rest.
Darnell, wood, wardle JT Jerry, , Russell, sezer, matagi, OB, gavet, Edwards, wardle, Lawrence,
English, walne, Clough holmes

go for it why shouldnt we aim for a trip to wembley, we've got a good enough squad and surely a good cup run will give the team confidenc for the league dont forget the final is july this year so still plenty of time to get to wembley and a decent league position

Judging by the players who played today we’ll be lining up like

Darnell
Jerry
Turner
Jake
Wood
Sezer
Russell
Matagi
O Brien
Wilson
Wardle
Edwards
Bruno

Gavet
Clough
Holmes
Murphy

No cup win since 1953 too long for a club with our heritage we not going to win Super League but an outside chance in this if Sezer stays fit Ken deserves it let’s hope the players believe it would be our greatest day to bring the cup back to the George hotel !

I would love to win the old tin pot.
You're right, it would be the best day ever !

McIntosh
McGillivery
Turner
Wardle
Wood or Senior
Holmes
Sezer
Gavet or Clough
O’Brien
Matagi
Murphy
Edwards
Lawrence

Wilson
Clough or Gavet
Walne
Hewitt or Russell

Holmes deserves to start at s/o after his display Friday would be a waste for him just to replace O’Brien for 15 mins however you could spell OB with a Holmes and move Turner to S/O and Murphy to centre for 15 minutes Turner has played s/o at Saints and Hull or play Russell from the bench

That’s a lot of disruption to give OB a 15 minute rest. Forced due to injury in game yes, - but I wouldn’t do all that to spell OB. OB needs more than 15 minutes, he’s played 80 every week and it’s a quick turn round. You can visibly see him tire at the end of games.
Holmes did well at SO but I understand that’s not where he’s earmarked to play.

This for me.

Strong squad named, looking forward to a midweek game, fingers crossed the weather improves.

I hope the fans turn up, I fear there will be less than 1000 which would be an embarrassment, and a shame for the club given the work they seem to be doing behind the scenes at the moment .

On paper it’s two very evenly matched teams...

In fact with two marquee players in SBW and Leutele plus McCrone, Lussick and Gigot Toronto should be at least even in the betting not getting a 20pts start.

I’m bringing four workmates from York £15 each in the directors box ideal first match for them apart from the attendance.

But hopefully 2,000 or watch some boards go into meltdown with how bad we are. Maybe a couple of hundred will fly in from a Toronto to help

What happened ?

An utterly useless clueless embarrassment.

One of The worst performances I have ever seen.
No idea in attack no shape no clue how to go anywhere near scoring.
Sezar looked an absolute waste of space and Gavet possibly even worse.

A few players did okay but they were in a very big minority

Beaten by a bunch of championship level rejects

where the hell did that come from, they looked like the wanted to be out of the cup from the kick off, the amount of times we dropped the ball in our own half was inexcusable there is no defence for what they put on toninght none at all another embarrassing awful home display

Absolutely bang on, we were lucky to get nil, That was as bad as anything we have dished up in the last three dismal seasons and they wonder why our crowds don't improve. Got soaked through getting back to the car and all to watch a load of tripe like that, It will be a week or two before i consider going down again
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For anyone who didn't go tonight, you were lucky, It was like watching a training match with only one side bothered about being there, Even Sezer was just going through the motions, we wouldn't have scored if we would have had a ball each, A truly abysmal performance .

Forget the home game last season when Ken showed his disgust at the teams performance - but it cant really have been worse than that!
Think they`d been out on the razzle since beating Saints and probably a good thing that attendance was limited or some wouldnt return this season
Still--- director of bus company whIch I booked for Wembley says I can have deposit back Faraway !!

Never mind you can share the "we beat saints cup" with warrington

First of all ‘well done Toronto’ came with a plan executed it very well. One of my colleagues who was watching RL for the first time summed it up they had a plan you did not.

From the end of the first set where Sam Wood got needlessly trapped in goal you knew it wasn’t gonna be ‘our night.’

I could go on about the largely powder puff pack, or disorganised backline in detail but what hurt most was the lack of passion as we really looked like we didn’t want to be there.They we’re collectively not ‘up for t’cup.’

It was obvious 20 minutes in that with both Holmes and Russell on the field it wasn’t working the pass timing was lacking forwards trying to run onto the ball at speed having to stop as the pass wasn’t where it should have been.

The game was gone when SW introduced O’Brien, when it was obvious things needed changing. McCrone could have worn a white ‘tux’ and not needed it, our line speed was so slow, face it we were ‘bossed’ start to finish.

Well hopefully after SW gives them some more time off it’s on to Hull and better things, but boy was Joe Wardle missed last night although on hindsight most of our 17 were missiing too......

A lot of senior players (again) let us down. It was clear Russell isn’t a patch on gaskell- the attack didn’t click at all and looked disjointed. They need to put in a lot of work together this week. I agree him and holmes on together didn’t work. All game We were barely out of our own half, back to zero line speed and taking the ball in from a standing start with zero metres after contact. Like last year all over again. AOB and Bruno - our two top tacklers on the bench was a big mistake from woolford.
Our defence improved in the second half but our effort in attack didn’t. A lot of individually error strewn performances. Sezer kicking was way off his best. Darnell dropping ball, Jerry dropping ball, Murphy dropping ball.
And if gavet put as much effort into running the ball in and his tackle first contact as he does into p*ssing about around the ruck and on the floor he’d be good. I was so frustrated with his performance and enforcer he was not. We were dumb and terribly ill disciplined- 4 penalties in front of their sticks.
Toronto on the other hand were strong taking in the ball, lots of metres after contact, kicked long, up quickly in defence, quick ptbs and I can only recall a couple or individual errors from them all game. Credit to them, they were better all round and deserved more points.
I do not want to see That level of performance again Giants. Most of you have some soul searching to do.

We have put some corking displays on in the cup over the years jools but that was right up there with the Swinton's and the Hunslet's etc. It's killed my pig for a while i'm afraid, I just can't be bothered to trail down to watch a so called professional side who are prepared to put on a show of that standard, irrespective of what their reasons or excuses for it are.

I thought Mr Davy said something last season about this sort of thing would not be happening again, He must wonder just what the hell he has to do, I don't know whats left to him but that's certainly the way to reduce the number of fans, I don't know how many were there last night but i bet there's plenty won't be going again for some time and i guess some never again.

Still we beat Saints didn't we , that will last us for a while, the CC is nothing to get worked up about anyway.

I watched the game last night and I thought that Huddersfield did not want to win.
Appalling first half with poor attitudes left them playing catch up.
As the weather got worse it left them chasing the game and Toronto played smart and took easy points as they became available.
No passion at the end of the game as they shook hands with the Toronto players and antipodean renewed acquaintances.
Just seemed to me that they lacked the passion that I as a paying fan expect.

Totally agree!!

I thought exactly the same. With one or two exceptions that was shameful. Before anybody points out the obvious, yes I have seen similar displays from my team - but not recently.