bookies couldnt split us then saints bringing back their big guns has seen money go on them for the win.

millward tipped us which is not a good thing!

this game is a bring a buddy voucher game btw.

One of the worst halfs of referring from Danny brough in years.

How did the penalty count go today?

Oh well, self imposed pressure, through silly mistakes and silly penalties have consolidated our place in the bottom 4. Think it's about time we got it sorted, I'm fed up with this "we know what's wrong, we're working on it" crap. I know it isn't Anderson and the rest of his coaching staff that drop the ball, throw shocking passes and give away stupid pens but at the end of the day he's the man responsible for all this, the buck stops with him. Time for him to stop with the lame excuses/comments, cut out all this b*llsh*t about "how good would we be if we cut out the errors" and get it sorted now before our seasons over



Unless I'm sadly mistaken, defence apart we're nowhere near getting anything sorted. At the moment our opponents best form of defence is our pathetic panic stricken attack, we're out own worst enemies.

well we had enough chances to win two games today but we didnt take them! our bads ways came to the fore again with the errors



it was a fiery game, but saints got away with murder in the first half, took childs an age to finally have the balls to send some one to the sin bin and that was about the 65th minute, a 2nd blatant late hit from masoe.

poor crowd, seems as though the fair weather fans have been put off by the 2 defeats over easter.

thats funny i was going to say i didnt know who was the ref today, was it wilkin or macarthy scarsbrook.. close call!

/mose deserved his yellow, but the guy should have also walked for the chicken wing 5 minutes earlier.

Brough played the ref a blinder.

he was poor for both sides today was Child ( no S!) he is just a terrible referee, he lost control early on and it went from bad to worse.

anyway we didn't help ourselves did we? as Brearley says,we had enough chances to have been out of sight by half time, saints offered nothing ( apart from headhunting) until we started gifting them possesion, which they took gladly.

the 2nd half was a war of attrition really and we never looked up for it, despite them giving us plenty of chances late on, we never looked like breaking them, good defence or poor attack? i would say the latter.. when we had them under pressure on their own line we looked clueless to be honest, how many times did we try sliding a kick through for Murphy? how many times did we give a rampaging forward a drop off pass to charge onto? you'd think that Paul Anderson, of all people would be championing that tactic.... we just lacked any kind of composure and were literally just throwing or kicking the ball around willy-nilly.

other than that, we played fairly well in defence, line speed was better, we got some good forward at times but our lack of composure near their line ultimately cost us.

correction masoe deserved a RED, blatant late shot, did one in the first half on robinson too.

huby is on report for the incident you mention. on report is more than what half the saints team got away with in the first 20mins.

brough and childs dont get on at all !

It was a yellow.

Where as you get on report and the blatent late shot on Wilkin was just plain missed.

Don't talk like it was one way traffic, Huddersfield got away with plenty of late shots.

No chicken wing, no late shot. If we had had our smarts about us Cunningham would have pulled Mose off the field as he was ready to lamp a player when he got up.

I wasn't aware that the Giants had any fair weather fans,I just thought that you all just turned up every home game


Crowd looked to be about 5k to 6k although i'm not sure what the official attendance was

We we're carrying massive injuries throughout our squad as most sides are after 3 games in 8 days but we found a way to win,The Giants didn't look like they had a win in them today IMO despite the close scoreline

5,825 with a good saints following as you'd expect.

we looked well up for it in the first half but bombed so many chances, and even though saints invited us to win the game late on we just didn't have the brains to work out how!

We didn't look like we would do it. They don't believe it themselves.

We started well today and, really, we should have been well in front at HT. When they equalised and HT came, the rest was like it was already written.

Jake Connor must be kicking himself as well, he was so close to catching that ball.

Connor and Murphy not catching the ball were pivotal moments. Murphy has been brilliant under the high ball but that one from Wilkin was a nasty Brough type kick so I'll forgive him that. We should have made a better attempt to close Wilkin down - he had loads of time to get that bomb off.

yes connor dropped the ball twice with the try line begging. could have been out of sight by half time.

Murphy had his worst game for some time yesterday. Shocking dropped ball, and some poor positioning from him- he may be fatigued?

I wouldn't call it a shocking dropped ball considering the wind, the rain and the height of the kick but it certainly didn't look good. I said straight away that when even Smurph is dropping the ball we should be worried.

I was more concerned why on earth we were giving Ta'ai the ball to run out from just in front of our posts. I called the dropped ball as soon as the pass went to him! I really enjoy him as a player but I really wish he could keep hold of the ball more often!

It wasnt a shocking dropped ball. It was a difficult kick in normal conditions. In those conditions it was even harder.
Why was his position poor?. Saints did not make one clean break all game. If you are referring to Roby's 40/20 it is nearly impossible to get back in line if the player jumps out from dummy half and kicks straight away when the opposition are expecting it to be moved to the halves. I put that down as brilliant rugby from Roby.

He had all the time in the world to take that ball. I could see from his stance it wasn't right- said straight away to my other half. The 40/20 was one such time yes-He should have been in a dropped back position before the ball was played, he usually would be. There were other times where he wasn't where he should be- perhaps he didn't have trust in connor.
I just think he wasn't his usual dependable self. If grix had made those errors Stella and others would be blasting him......

maybe its me but all possession we had be interesting but would say more than 50% in both halves we should have won why didn't brough take the two points that were on offer on two occasions in the first half take all points against sides like that could have been a game changer as there score came soon after

No way you can have a go at Murphy for dropping that bomb in that weather. His stance wasn't wrong at all - it was just a very good spiral bomb that did him.

There wasn't too much wrong with his positurning either

i agree about Murphy dropping that bomb, it was a horrible one to take, high, swirling and all over the place with the wind, i can forgive him for that as most players would have struggle to take that.

yes murphy dropped a bomb, but i thought he went ok made some good yards for us

7 others players also dropped the ball, connor dropped it twice with the try line in sight!

Murphy changed his stance he had his knees bent too much then couldn't adjust and half sort of fell forward. - but exactly it was a difficult take in difficult circumstances-I'm not getting at the lad- saints players dealt with the kicks better and murphy usually would - but It seems only certain giants players get ripped to bits for errors whilst others are forgiven!

It was the sort of ball you would expect Smurph to catch, yes it was a difficult kick to deal with and he's taken plenty of those before, therefore i was/am disappointed in him for that as i think it led to their try which ultimately cost us the game.
He knew he made an error as he was stood with his hands on is head after.

If it was Grix there would be 9 pages of people cursing him by now.