So after the abandoned game on sunday we try again v Halifax!

people going in the stand or on the terraces behind the posts?

think anderson will give the seniors longer game time for this one and a few youngsters maybe last 15mins or so?

what will he do at full back, sure he would have wanted to give grix, murphy and connor all a run out in that position pre season! also try out the half back combos with ellis and robbo hookers

I'm hoping everybody available will get a run out.

I hope Anderson's idea of a first choice line up would start the game and play most of the first half before the experiments start and we start to look disjointed and clueless.

Being our only pre season I expect everyone to put in a good performance and to be mentally switched on to try and earn a place against Hull FC.
I'm not saying go all out, just get the basics right and not get carried away in terms of skill.

I hope to god this game doesn't get called off or we get any injuries.

Looking on the bright side if it gets called off at least we won't pick up any injuries!

Halifax football game was off last saturday so not looking good and pitch is always liable to watterlogging.

Guess I'll be pleased either way. I think I've read that we've had practice matches with our experienced and youth combined throughout pre season. I know it's not battle hardening but hopefully if the game is called off then this will help us come the big day.

Disaster if this one if called off too!

get ya money on Hull fc

Weather forecast to become warmer from Friday.

Sounds like they had a 13 v 13 full-contact game on Monday reffed by Ben Thaler presumably to mimmick the Bulls game as closely as possible.

and still looking for another friendly to play after the halifax game!

had new drainage put in last summer. this will put it to the test

sending a strong squad of 20 over to halifax sunday

the ones coming back from injury miss out plus new signing roberts which is a shame, few of the youngsters have missed out due to the bulls game being off.

people going behind the posts or side on?

Side on for me. Is Roberts injured or just not picked? Will maybe get a run out in the game v Wakey next Fri?

looks like he didnt make the 20, anderson gone for taai, ferres, bailey, hughes and fairbank in front of him which is understandable... yeh maybe next friday

Well, I've missed my rugby fix, and for a first hit out I think that's what we needed. A good physical encounter. Our forwards had a aggression, we looked solid and I thought the new lads all added a something, Ellis in particular.

It was a shame Halifax couldn't throw a bit more at us, or am I doing our defence an injustice?

Does anyone know what sparked the O'Connor v Moore episode? I just saw the aftermath....

Quite a fiery game, brough and connor both getting sin binned for scraps, good to see us show abit of mongrel which we lacked last year.

good work out and pleased to see us only concede 6 points

robinson played well at hooker, lunt took a knock but looked ok after.

Ellis man of the match for me with two tries and looked good.

Huby and Hughes also went ok.

We have won something this season!!! infirmary cup

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.