Re: RD 2 | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Mon Feb 03, 2020 11:04 am  

While not defending the performance yesterday (which for the record I thought was a marked improvement on last year for the first 15/20 mins actually before they got bullied and fell apart) you've surely got to let your first choice starting line up have a bit of a run of games before you start chopping and changing (aside from the enforced changes such as Hurrell). That Hull side was a bit of an unknown quantity yesterday. Most people expected us to be second best in the pack and we were. The other clubs will have been watching to get a gauge of where Hull are at. I actually felt we were a bit unlucky in the first half. Thought the first try should have gone up to the video ref for obstruction, wasn't at all convinced by Hick's decision on their second and the third was a great move on their part. Suddenly after a decent start we're on the back-foot, weather turned poop and the game and the confidence were gone. I'd like to see how we go in the next few before starting to chop the team up. Week 1 is far too early to decide the 13 are terrible and changing everything in my opinion.

It's clear after the last two season's we've miles to go yet. For me all we can hope for is an improvement and seeing things moving in the right direction (which I'd have thought we can all agree has definitely been happening). If the overall league quality is as poor as it was last year we could sneak into the play-offs but there seems to be a lot of people with pretty short memories who think one or two signings are going to make us compete at the top.

Re: RD 2 | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Mon Feb 03, 2020 2:43 pm  

Never in a month of Sundays would he drop Lui.

Walker
Briscoe
Newman
Hurrell/Evans
Handley
Lui
Gale
Ava
Myler
Prior
Martin
Ward
Smith

Dwyer/McLelland
Holdroyd
Oledzki
Mellor

Re: RD 2 | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Mon Feb 03, 2020 3:20 pm  

RHINO-MARK wrote:

We do need more depth and better quality in the starting 13.
Holdroyd will be better than Donaldson at prop Mcllellend cant be any worse than Lui & Ava was missed yesterday.

You don't change your starting 6 after one game.Lui can play a lot better than he did yesterday.One of the worst players on the field for mine was Martin.

Re: RD 2 | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Mon Feb 03, 2020 3:37 pm  

fanstanningley wrote:

You don't change your starting 6 after one game.Lui can play a lot better than he did yesterday.One of the worst players on the field for mine was Martin.

Think is though, Lui was really poor in the preseason games also.

I agree on Martin, but he did make a lot of tackles.

Dwyer should be nowhere near the team based on that defensive effort yesterday.

Re: RD 2 | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Mon Feb 03, 2020 3:44 pm  

Weren't there some rumours of some discontent with Lui over the close season? Hoping it was just a bad day at the office. Felt like Dwyer's predictable unpredictability yesterday was really jarring with Gale's attempts to bring some cohesion and control to the end of the sets. Was surprised it took another 10 mins or so after half time for him to swap him out for Myler. I can see Myler doing a really solid job at hooker alongside Gale and Lui with Dwyer being thrown on for impact - at least until Leeming is available. Do we have an eta on him?

Re: RD 2 | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Mon Feb 03, 2020 4:41 pm  

never rated dwyer. awful

Re: RD 2 | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Mon Feb 03, 2020 4:44 pm  

Walker
Briscoe
Newman
Evans
Handley
McLelland
Gale
Oledzki
Myler
Prior
Martin
Ward
Smith

Dwyer
Holdroyd
Ava
Mellor

Need to make sure they kick on the 5th more lacked that yesterday, kept running it on the last. We've got two decent kickers, we need to start using them.

Re: RD 2 | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Mon Feb 03, 2020 7:02 pm  

fanstanningley wrote:

Meant to put Prior not Martin.

That would still be 14 starters.

Re: RD 2 | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Mon Feb 03, 2020 7:59 pm  

Gotcha wrote:

Think is though, Lui was really poor in the preseason games also.

I agree on Martin, but he did make a lot of tackles.

Dwyer should be nowhere near the team based on that defensive effort yesterday.

Let's hope Lui regains some form because he does have a lot of qualities. I'm no fan of Dwyer but untill Leeming is fit we don't really have a choice unless Johnson is fit although I would rather bring Johnson into a winning team.

Re: RD 2 | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Mon Feb 03, 2020 8:36 pm  

fanstanningley wrote:

Let's hope Lui regains some form because he does have a lot of qualities. I'm no fan of Dwyer but untill Leeming is fit we don't really have a choice unless Johnson is fit although I would rather bring Johnson into a winning team.

Lui is a very good player on his day. The pack is the big problem for us.