Hudds always do well against us and Brough was mom. But as last season especially showed, it's not how you start. It's how you finish. Reckon they were saving it up for next week.

No plan and no idea. It was utterly embarrassing. We made them look superb. The defending for two of Hudds tries was an absolute joke which wouldnt even have a place in schoolboy rugby.

Our players looked knackered after 30 mins.

What irked me more than our terrible kicking game and total lack of idea's in attack combined, was the fact that Huddersfield just wanted it more. They ran harder with the ball and in turn defended like their lives depended on it. We were the complete opposite to that looking lethargic and unwilling to bend our backs at times.

I'm willing to right this one of as a blip, with my mind cast back to last season when the roles were reversed and a weakened Wigan side pulled of a fantastic victory over the Giants. But I'm looking for a big turnaround next week in all departments.

ATEOTD NO-one expected the Giants to win but they wanted it more today, end of.
Early doors after 1 game so no need to panic (Wigan) or get carried away (Giants) its a long long season.
Great to see the youngsters get a run out and perform very well against a team that will be there or there about come end of the season.

Huddersfield deserved the win. Brough tore us apart with his kicking game and they out enthused us. They defended very well and had Sam under control. A few players looked absolutely knackered even after 20 minutes and I was disappointed with a few of the senior players. On the few occasions that we did make a good break there was just no one around to support. Particularly in the second half I think it was Carmont who made a break in our own half and just no one, not even Pat was anywhere near him. Faz had a fantastic game and made some great breaks but again had no one supporting.

Our kicking game was atrocious and is something that needs sorting. So much pressure was put on us defensively just through not being able to put a kick downfield that could beat a man and turn anyone around. The likes of Saints and Wire will make us suffer big time if we kick like that against them.

Huddersfield did spoil and slow down the game a lot, and silverwood let a lot go imo. But we were more than happy using those sort of tactics under Mcguire... we still should have done better and some of the defending leading up to hudds trys at times was not pretty to watch at all.

It's only the first game but we have a lot of stuff to sort out in the next few weeks.

Giants did what Wigan have done for seasons now so very well defended I say. No-one can say the best team didn't win.

Only Flower and Lauaki played.

They were both ok, nothing special. Wasnt impressed but wasnt disappointed either.

i agree in that hock lacked discipline, but i would also say lauaki was aggressive while as others have mentioned, was poor in defence. sam while solid was disappointing but as others have said, it was probably due to the lack of advantageous position. all in all they havent given other teams anything to worry about just yet.

The deafening roar of the DW morgue crowd put them off.

It's been a strange build up generally for this season, most teams had fewer than normal friendlies and Wire did something different. On this basis I expect some shock results in the first few weeks, unfortunately we caught one this time.

Haven't read the whole thread - apologies.

However it was all 1 man rugby until it was too late, we all looked knackered after 20 mins, Pat so slow? Tomkins left a lot to be desired with the 1 on 1s at the back. We let them ly on, kicking game was shocking - we kept on kicking far too early in the set, its fine every now and then but too often it just throws your possession away!!

Pre season has been a joke, the 1st team have hardly played together and that was weeks ago?

Rant over.

We need another scrum half, Tommy is not effective at 7. Him and Micky mac playing 40 mins at hooker would be much better. I'm worried about our backs lack of pace, when sam brings it to the 3/4s the move loses its momentum when Carmont and Richards can't keep up with him. Try Sam at 7 and Richards at 1?

Shit..prep and display..sort it

We looked exhausted after 20 mins or so. Lack of fitness and lack of pre-season games contributed to that along with only doing 'light training' when they went to Florida. We were standing far too flat and had no momentum going forward. Kicking was awful too, constantly straight at the winger or fullback. I only remember one kick from McIlorum and two from Sam that went over the top and turned them round. I didn't understand having Tuson, Flower and Farrell on the bench. Farrell and one of Tuson or Flower would have been a better option. Most players appear to have bulked up but seems to be at the expense of cardio fitness.

The wane effect

Wonder how long it will take our fans to realise Goulding is NEVER a centre, bombed 2 overlaps in the second half, got some class passes from Finch and made no use of them what so ever, he must be a dream to defend against. All in all it was a poor performance from 1 to 17, nobody stood out, but hey ho, we'll probably finish 5th and win it so no point panicking.

Yes we were poor, but booing them off and giving the coaching staff a mouthful after round one. Really?

I took the boos to be aimed at the ref rather than the players. I may be wrong though.

Possibly, but Rads was given a right mouthful. Could physically see him cringing.

It's a fickle buisness followed by fickle fans. That performance was not deserving of a booing at all. Can't fault the lads effort really. TWe just looked under cooked to me.

maybe move Tomkins to 7 until you get adequate cover there.

If it puts Leuluai back at 9, Iestyn Harris can play Scrum Half for all I care.

Id love us to get the Amos of 2010 back and play him 1, Sam 6 and Tommy 9

Was really surprised that Rads asked for questions. Bad move on his part because he couldn't win

Not really. What Maguire did was coach to team to do the three man tackle which actually delayed the tackle. Huddersfield were just lying on and messing about. The difference between the two was Maguires tactics had to be coached and learned but were also legal (which IMO is why there was such a fuss because there was nothing in the rules to prevent it) and Hudds were lucky not get far more penalties given against them which is why Lockers should have been bending Silverwoods ear after about 10 mins when it became obvious what they were doing. Given he didn't and when Wane could see for himself what they were doing he should have told Lockers at half time to start bending Silverwoods ear in the same way someone like Bries or Sinfield would have done form the off.

Whenever we play a team with a gobby captain who never stops talking to ref we moan about the trying to ref the game but IMO its about time we had someone to do it on our team.