And why not....We are the sporting pride of West Yorkshire

try by hodgy 6-0

and again 12-0

fulton gets first try for fartown

30-10 Full Time

3rd in the League

any idea of crowd sam?

Just over 6k watched quite a dull match that Huddersfield never looked like losing, and to my mind did just enough to win.

not a bad crowd for a game against celtic on a fri night

aye, not many who werent season ticket holders i dont think

top marks to the cru fans who made the trek

What a poor game.

We'd have struggled against anyone else tonight but saying that Celtic were surely way below their best as well. Strange, strange game.

Flattest atmosphere i can remember at the Galpharm in ages. No one even had a go at the ref. I dont think i heard one gerremonside.

I think the fans and the players were not interested in the Hors doeuvre's and were waiting for the main course on Monday.

I did

They were taking a tap on the 20 lol

Seemed a poor game in that the Giants never got out of second gear. But they didnt have to. Celtic didnt have any more than that to give last night. There is the old saying that you are only as good as your opposition and last night I think we went down to their level. When at work would you do more than you had to considering in 3 days time you were going to have to do the same job again? I wouldnt. They go over to play KR in what will probably be a lot harder game. The lads did enough to win, more than enough as they had a 20 points advantage on Celtic and that was without breaking a sweat. On top of that we play Leeds - which will be another tough one on Saturday giving us another game in just 5 days. Cant blame them for pacing themselves. A win is a win for me, it is nice to get a win on the back of a great performance but thats not always possible. We arent always going to play champagne rugby - even Leeds dont do that as last nights score will testify. Monday is another day, another game and hopefully another 2 points!

Do you think they were pacing themselves or a case of it's only Celtic?

I think you're right in many ways here but would think personally that Celtic would have to be disappointed with what they served up last night. With ball in hand they were really bad, in the first half in particular.

In one instance one of their men threw a pass about 5 yards forward and straight into touch! And that first try they got in the second half, well, fluke doesn't really do it justice!

sort of, i think our lads kind of realised they were gonna win the game without needing to 'perform' by sussing out Celtic early on - they were poor , we didnt need to be good to get the 2 points which we did - easily- and no one (hopefully) took any knocks.

fair play to Celtic they made a bit of a fight of it in the 2nd half but i feel for them really - to be honest i dont think they are quite ready for SL yet, but good luck to them and their cracking bunch of fans - well done last night guys and nice to meet one or two of ya and put names to faces !

The Celtic boys will have to come in the Antich next time. They'll have a better time for it IMO as well.

They were in Ropewalk after and they never shut up and some good banter between us - fair play to them, they could have just sat in a corner and been quiet being the new boys but they didnt they mingled and chatted with us .

Good on them. Hopefully they'll have had a good time and will bring a few more next year as a result.

very surreal game i thought, we did enough to win but in all fairness we were poor,but not sure if that had anything to dowith not having to raise our game, no disrespect to celtic but they were as poor a team as i've seen for a while,defensively they did ok (held us up 4 times) but offensively they were very very poor
im just hoping that we were reserving most of our energies for the next 2 games

I have a different slant on the game.
Although Celtic`s attack was a lot of one out runs from the forwards and a few passes going astray, I thought their defence was pretty spot on, which made it very hard for our players to shine. You can only play as well as the opposing defence is going to let you.
It was always going to be a banana skin type of game, and we came out pretty well.

I think you're exactly correct there mate. We did enough to win the game comfortably without getting out of 1st gear. There's plenty of petrol left in the tank for Monday now where as Hull KR had to run their blood to water and will tire on monday rapidly. IMO that was the perfect game last night in preparation for Monday.

P.s.
Nice to see you again last night mate, it's been ages.

i also thought we tried too hard sometimes to score on every play rather than been patient and wearing celtic down
we cant afford to do that at hull kr

I'm sure it'll be a totally different game plan on Monday mate. Last night was a case of getting through the game with a win without putting the bodies on the line, keep the ball alive to reduce the numbers of times we're tackled. Monday they'll be told that less than 100% will not do.

We are going to have to be much, much better without a doubt, or we'll be coming back to West Yorkshire with nothing.