our team is out - and its a very strong 21.
only English missing from a sure place in the 17 I would say. Good to see seb back!
Jermaine McGillvary , Jake Wardle ,Ricky Leutele ,Ashton Golding,Tui Lolohea., Theo Fages ,Chris Hill
Danny Levi ,Michael Lawrence, Josh Jones ,Chris McQueen ,Luke Yates ,Joe Greenwood ,Owen Trout
Sebastine Ikahihifo ,Adam O'Brien ,Oliver Wilson ,Leroy Cudjoe ,Olly Russell ,Innes Senior,Jack Ashworth
i can see us going
Tui
jerry
wardle
leutele
innes
russell
fages
hill
levi
greenwood
jones
mcqueen
yates
Seb, trout wilson or bruno and then I think he will go for golding on the bench as he gives us cover at 9 and across the backs in case of injury.
nervous but looking forward to it!

Agreed. We're not a team that can be anything less than our best of we want beat KR. I'm hoping the extra time off from playing on the Thursday helps us get over any fatigue but more importantly allows us to have cleared the flu bug that's clearly affected our performances.

Yes, it does make you wonder if the double whammy of flu lurking in systems and short turn arounds explains our rather lacklustre performances over Easter.
KR will have the crowd behind them- but our lads will be used to that. Hopefully we can keep them quiet- apart from the usual booing that you inevitably get from that lot of course!
Seb and Hill will be nice and fresh in our forward pack, as will Tui.- which will bode well.
Dagger isn’t as dangerous as Coote and is liable to making some silly mistakes at times so hopefully we can exploit that, he may be a bit rusty first game back in a while too so we should look to put him under pressure as well as push their forwards hard.
They like to play the ball about, so we need to stop the offload. We need to play the game on our terms not theirs. The ruck battle will be interesting. Most KR fans seem to think they have that well won. Parcell is a very good player- but so is Levi.

Could be a cracking game this, I love watching KR under Tony Smith, in my opinion they're the most exciting attacking team in SL.

I just hope we have a really good go and don't shoot ourselves in the foot. Whoever wins will have a task in the final, but I'd be happy for the trip to London

Any idea how many tickets we've sold?

on the 13th April we had sold 1000. not heard anything concrete since but we will be way behind the others. I think realistically we should be lucky to have 4500 there.

Completely agree and the rugby they play is the rugby we struggle against. We're so rigid at times we can't cope when different things are thrown at us. I think the clash of styles is what makes it so intriguing and why it should be such a good game.

Lewis and Coote are big misses for us, as is Wood who's been a real find.
It's a really interesting game, whichever side can impose their game will win and that's hard to call.
If King and Abdull perform, we've got a chance but you rightly start as favourites.
Good luck for a healthy return for your lads.

I for one was gutted to see Sam Wood go. You will never get any less than 100% effort from Sam wherever he plays. And he filled in at a number of positions for us over his time. Interestingly Woody was the ONLY half back partner I ever heard Danny Brough openly praise other than his buddy robbo.
It was particularly telling that at the end of last season when the leaving players had been announced such as edwards,, gaskell sezer etc wood was the only player that was still being selected to play in the Huddersfield squad by Ian Watson. That for me speaks volumes.
I think you are spot on in what you say in that in two evenly matched sides who play very differently whichever team gets to impose their way of playing for the largest majority of the game will win.

theyve sold 6000 tickets so how many points head start do they get beofre they start booing ?
we havent sold 2000 but niether have wigan plus town are at home same time nearly

2 x plastics ( young Raaaaymand and me - although he's not so young anymore) coming out of the woodwork and setting off from Linconlshire this morning and looking forward to a great game.
By heck it's a long time since I posted on here, it's amazing I can still remember my password. CMON U Giants.

Town are at home at 12.30- but to be fair it’s a nothing game and many of the fans are talking about resting players for the playoffs as regardless of the outcome they are in the playoffs. They will finish either third (in which case they have a day less to prepare) or fourth. And as yet don’t know their opponents.
Potentially an expensive month for Huddersfield sports fans!

6000 from Rovers shop plus another 1000 or so from the RL website apparently. So its looking at possibly just over 7000 sold in total.
Should be a cracking atmosphere. The nerves are certainly starting to kick in now that's for sure.

About as complete a performance as i have ever seen in 30 years of watching the C&G. We have had better individuals than we have right now, but that was absolute control for 80 minutes, if we play like that in the final we will give ourselves a chance. Best Jermaine has played since the world cup, Cudjoe was chasing like a spring chicken, Forwards were utterly dominant and Leutele smashed the hell out them bringing the ball out of yardage. How much did it obviously mean to Hill looking at his celebration at the end? We will be written off for the final , and we have never put in a performance in our last two CC final outtings, but we seem to have a lot of cool heads in this team and we can dare to dream!

My son was made to eat his words today regarding a comment he made about Jermaines defence in the car on the way! We were laughing at him all through the game about it!
Absolutely the right call to play Leroy on that side. Him and Jerry just understand each other so well.
But who will play in the final……..
We weren’t perfect. But we were very solid and we will have to be even better in the final

Superb performance, hats off, well done.
We didn't play well but a lot of that was down to you not letting us play.
Forwards utterly dominated us, about the only thing I'll watch back is Jerry's try because it was right at the opposite corner and it looked special.
Good luck and do it for Yorkshire in the final.

I'm sorry it had to be you guys that got that kind of performance from us, would much rather it had been one of the big boys we spanked as you are a team on the up, who needs success like we do. Today was our day and as i said previously if we can execute a gameplan like we did today and the cool heads can keep the occasion getting to us we could yet spring an upset in the final. Why not us for once? We now play a similar style to catalan and it has got them success in recent years. I am glad we have got Wigan and not saints in the final because saints do what we do, but better, whereas wigan (this year) are more similar in style to you (K.R). Either way we have to be at our very best and hope for an off day for Wigan or some early luck to sprint an upset.

I said the same today. Certainly the best we've played since the Nathan Brown days at least

Congratulations Hudds. Can we have Luke Yates please? Reminds me alot of Grant Millington. Never backs down!

congrats guys, hope you win it now

Magnificent performance. Hard to believe we could relax totally in the last 20 minutes. I can't recall such a complete performance. Fages brilliant kicking game, Levi dominant around the ruck, backs dangerous all game, forward power fabulous. But clever game plan was probably the most important feature. Well done to all the crowd, great atmosphere.

I agree very good performance.The only downside to having Huddersfield in the final is your fan base is so poor and will reflect in the attendance at the final.

Well it didn’t take long for the first negative comment did it.
Why should it matter to you how many attend the final? Last year no one attended! And if you care so much then why don’t you buy a couple of tickets.

I said a very good performance by Hudds thats hardly negative
The reason attendance matters is its live on TV and S/L needs all the terrestrial TV coverage it can get. That extra 10000 another S/L club with good support would have taken to the final would have just about filled the ground

What like Catalan? Or salford?
Are you suggesting that only teams that can guarantee a minimum number of ticket sales should compete?
Huddersfield took 20,000 to their last CC final.
Huddersfield town could well be playing at Wembley on the Sunday so who knows how many might just decide to go to the game seeing as they are already in the capital.
Filling a ground with support isn’t always positive- KR fans were bragging about how many they took yesterday, but were fighting in lumps, chucking beer, letting off smoke bombs next to the pitch and getting chucked out by stewards- so more isn’t always better!

Don't be drawn into an argument about crowd numbers. More important is the performance on the field and Saturday's was brilliant. Anyone doing one on our neighbours gets our support and we'll be cheering you on in the final.