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.
