Great performance, really really pleased the way we went about our business, there are areas we need to improve on, but not many.

It's still early days and 2 points in the bag, we have to do the same things we did next week against a Broncos team that was starting to play like a competing team the back end of last season.

PS I'm still not sure I've woken up from my wonderful dream, with this song in my head, I know it a Max Boyce tune but quite like it !!??!!

[i=#800040And we were singing, hymns and arias, 'Huddersfield Cracker', ' Claret and Gold’

We paid our weekly shilling, for that start of season trip, a long weekend in St Helens, without a bit of kip, there's a seat reserved for beer by the boys from Fartown, there's beer, pontoon, crisps and fags and a 'Tansey' jigging it down

Cause we were singing, hymns and arias, 'Huddersfield Cracker', ' Claret and Gold’

We got to the park early and were jostled in the crowd, made jokes with Saints, looked for toilets all around, so many there we couldn't budge -twisted legs and pale, I'm ashamed we used a bottle that once held bitter ale

And we were singing, hymns and arias, ‘Huddersfield Cracker', ' Claret and Gold’

Giants defeated Saints, AYE! in a fast and powerful game, we sang 'Wise men' and ‘whats the score Browny’ and they sounded both the same, we sympathised with a Scoucer, whose team was doomed to fail, so we gave him that old bottle, that once held bitter ale!

He started singing, hymns and arias, 'Huddersfield Cracker', ' Claret and Gold’

And we were singing, hymns and arias, 'Huddersfield Cracker'', ' Claret and Gold’[/i

I'd disagree, there are a LOT of areas we can an improve on - and thats absolutely key

Last season in our first few weeks we were pretty immaculate at this time, and so had no room to improve
Now we are good but can get better.

Much more satisfying position imo.

and that was against a team who are as big a side size wise we wil come up against this year...going to steam roll some teams this year!

Watching the replay again, and its utterly cringeworthy to me as an RL fan - and offensive to me as a giants fan to listen to the Sky commentary.

They were nearly as biased as the Saints home crowd in the first 20 mins.

I don't agree with that, maybe its my perception? Laffranchi, Perry and LMS do not seem to me to be big for props, my perception was they are all similar size to Larne, our smallest prop. Puletua is bigger but similar in size to Feilden, they did not have anyone of the size and bulk of Eorl & Kopczak. I thought we had a size advantage in the back row too.

Wire, Leeds, HKR and Catalans will all certainly have bigger packs than Saints, probably Wigan, London and Bradford's run on pack will also be bigger.

Lots of good players in the Saints pack when they click but they don't seem huge to me.

Think Nathan must be going down the mobility route again,as all the Saints players looked very lean,with the exception of one prop forward.Manu for example looked a lot slimmer,though it was his bulk that caused us problems when he was at Hull.

Too big, too strong ,too good,WOW.

I agree a few areas we need to improve- saints allowed to offload far too often -and I'm afraid to say jerry looked lacking defensively again a number of times, thankfully the others covered well.

one of the best performances i've seen in recent years,certainly up there with the semi final wins.
we were sublime from start to finish and saints had no answer to us,that was as big a stuffing we could ever have imagined giving st helens at home!
but... lets not get carried away and expect that level of performance every week now.

Seriously we were not sublime from start to finish.
we made a lot of errors, there were moments of confusion and lack of co-ordination at times that we were allowed to get away with

More than once Brough and Robbo had to scramble on the last play
A lot of time they were able to look dangerous on the roll but let themselves down with poor offloading

If we had been sublime we would have put 60 on them and nilled them to boot.

We were good, no doubt, but Saints were poor

That there is room for improvement is nothing but a benefit to us.

just goes to show what having real props can do !

May I say a belated congratulations to Huddersfield for them putting the X-factor back into RL.
Too many things are predictable and I for one expected them to get a drubbing at Saints.
But no ........

I would love a club like Huddersfield to win the title of Champions this season.
It would be a breath of fresh air.
Keep it going.

cheers stand off-ish,we hope too that in our lifetime we can say we were champions of the rugby league at least once but it's unlikely.

amazing what playing good players in positions they are good at and are happy playing can do,maybe our previous coach could learn from that

There probably were negatives from the game and obvious flaws we need to work on but hell......we've just stuffed Saints on their own patch, the 1st time we've won there since Crackers and Ivor were only just approaching middle agedom

...for one week lets sod the negatives and celebrate this superb victory, we've got another 26 weeks to moan

I remember going to Wigan 1st game of season last year. I came back thinking we world beaters. How wrong was I.....

if we cant enjoy wins like this then we never can!!


i say enjoy!!

Andersons job to not get carried away and keep team improving - as supporters we should see the positives and bloody well enjoy a fantastic win!!!



Support against Broncos should build on the back of that and if we win that the Wigan game will be a corker of an atmosphere and a big crowd.

Great performance at Saints - and second year we have beaten a top 4 side at their own ground in rd 1. Bet we all remember when that would have seemed a real pipe dream.

I say LET'S PARTY and enjoy it!!!

As the Saints fans sang - "always look on the bright side of life"

Cheeky little upstart.

Fielden was great but Kopczak was even better.

Another good aspect of the performance was the discipline shown by the defensive line,when StH got some field position in second half.No one was jumping out,they appeared to be communicating,identifying the decoy runners,and sliding out to get the ball carriers.

Other points,the ob's need to get closer to Chan & Ferres they are strong lads who will bump off people and look to offload.

First contact much improved,none of this hanging on to the upper body and slowly drag the tackled player to ground as they make an extra 8/9/10 metres with a leg drive.

Also when we sent the ball wide in our own half it was with structure not pass and hope.

All down to the coaching,which can't be praised enough for that performance.

A great reward for the small band of supporters that consistently follows the team. Nights like that are what make it all worthwhile. Loved the "Yorkshire" chants as well, always sounds great on telly.

cheers



this night was def up their with some of the best.

It was,think I only missed two of the Knowsley Road defeats since we've been in SL.

Now we are being tipped as Grand Finalists by no less than Robbie Burrow,after just one week

this after we were expected to go to Saints to only make up the numbers.

Amazing.

Robbie burrow pah- what would he know about winning grand finals- the important question is but what does he great rugby guru big fat Garry Schofield think?

Hmmm I think he only gives his wise words after 15 pints of stella.

i know! everyone loves the giants now.... we have blown our cover too early