why does everyone seem connor is now called oconnor?!

Think the announcer made the error

I thought that was a pretty good hit out today.

Halifax played it a bit close to the edge of legal at times but it kept Giants going at full steam through the game.

Sadly the highlight was Broughy smashing Halifax's number 8. Just shows don't pick on the small guys !

Lots of positives in the game. Ellis was excellent, a few nice touches from Hughes. Huby defended well but no sign of the offloads yet.

Murphy was solid at fullback. Wingers and centres looked good. Broughy was fine. Robbo worked really hard but should stay away from coming out of the line to try and smash big forwards. I think 40 minute spells will mean Robbo lasts the season.

Happy with all the forwards.

So all in all a good blow and bring on the season.

From what i saw from behind the sticks Connor went in defending Robinson after their number 15 planted a few punches at him, probably after some verbals (again a big forward picking on the little man, same with the Broughy incident)

Broughton still looked abit shaky under the high bomb to his corner



hope huby hasnt been told to stop his offload and passing game... like crabtree.

robinson i think will be brilliant at hooker, like he was a few years ago when we had kev brown... loves to tackle and quite nippy around the ruck

lets hope lunt doesnt have another one of those injury seasons!!

Is Fairbank going to get much game time for you guys? Seems silly holding on to a player just for the sake of it.

maybe but he is down the pecking order, not helped by injuries last two seasons and not really impressing on loan... he is contracted to the club and on a decent salary so hes not going to leave on his own accord and we cant just get rid of him can we

Roberts playing for Oldham in a friendly,good win fax poor there big 8 creamed koppy b4 his illegal hit on broughy,Ellis a big plus has a kicking game!!!

The money that the Giants are rumoured to be asking for him seems ridiculous for a player well down the pecking order.




Probably a little unfair on Fax calling them poor, Huddersfield will beat SL teams by more than that with the team they had out not to mention about 1.5m difference in spend meaning it only really should be one way traffic. Oh and yeah our new aussie prop looks more than useful and didnt look out of place against the Hudds forwards for most of the game.

well he was a top prospect when he signed his new contract but it all went wrong, never know could come back this year, if not whoever is after him can sign him at the end of the season.

Fax were solid and enthusiastic- but unless they try and do anything other than running the ball in they won't be troubling too many sides. A new coach and a new side- but no new ideas on show. Our defence weren't that great that you couldn't break it down, you just lacked any creativity. Perhaps that will come- hope it's not too late- I love games at the shay



As for Fairbank- the wonder that was nathan brown signed him up on a massively long contract for decent money for a lad of his experience- NB promptly peed off and Fairbank has stagnated. There are other younger forwards who look a better prospect right now at the giants. Fairbank has been unlucky with injuries- but he needs to pull his finger out of he's going to get any game time. He looked good two years ago- needs to find that form and build on it.

Official highlights from Halifax RL : https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=you ... 7vyVOUteWI

Official highlights from Halifax RL : https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=you ... 7vyVOUteWI

does huddersfield have a youtube channel?

be nice to have a Giantstv channel , sure we had one a few years back which was great for interviews etc but no more.. somewhere else we could improve off the field again!!!

1,500 Giants fans at Fax on Sunday! Cracking effort, I only hope we can take big away followings during the season!

i doubt it, always amazes me how we can get 1500 to a friendly, albeit one at our traditional rivals, but yet we very rarely take half half that number to games which mean something.

There did look to me mainly fartowners there tbh!

yeh examiner quoted at 1500

even fax fans were saying about half giants fans out of the 2014 crowd

Half sounds about right but certainly not three quarters.

makes you wonder where these people are at regular league games

At regular league games....
Jeez its 1500 not 15000,it's not all that- our away crowds have been growing. First fix of the season - where were the other 5000+ !

jools, what i meant was out of that 1500 who were at fax, to get their rugby fix, how many will be at wigan in 2 weeks for a game that matters? the usual 2/300 of us that go to every game?
it's all very well going to a local friendly to get their fix, but when the games come along that matter they suddenly lose their interest.
wouldn't it be great if even half that number travelled away regularly?

but looking at the fixtures, we have only got 3 scheduled sunday afternoon away games, not including magic weekend, so i can't see our away numbers picking up much this year.

they will be watching it on sky (if its on!), in their arm chairs with a pipe and slippers, too cold for them to travel that far too

halifax is only down the road

No brearley- there's more to it than that. I'm lucky enough to not currently work Fridays - lots do. The last wigan game (thurs) I set off from oldham at 5.30 and missed kick off. The time before I set of on Friday at 5.00 and only just made it on time. - both times there were plenty of giants there- would probably have been many more if it was Sunday. Saints game - missed kick off..... See the pattern-

5.30 from oldham and missed kick off



i seemed to get there on time from hudds, friday eves are busy on the m62 but to wigan its 50mins, so 1hr 30 mins travelling time surely enough. if there has been a crash then its different obv.

did struggle with the saints game though same!