Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:13 pm  

-Weak minded mentality continues

- Fusitu'a should call it quits his body just can't cope with the demand of rugby (Newman isn't far behind him in that respect)

- Mcdonnell can't cover centre although couldn't really be helped with the injuries tonight

-Miller is very rocks and diamonds can produce a bit of magic but tries to do it too often should have just found the deck when returning the ball instead of trying to jink past 3 Huddersfield chasers. To then go for a short drop out with the scores at 24-24 with 5 mins left is a complete brain explosion and sums up the current mentality of this Leeds team.

-Some good pieces of play tonight completely undone by terrible defensive efforts and reads and poor game management the cons far outweigh the cons.

-Kendall is still as shocking as ever with his decisions ridiculous at times.

-Anything but 2 wins from the next 2 and Rohan is surley gone.

Literally losing interest more and more each week in a club I love and will always support through thick and thin but just sick of same old story now for far too long.

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:19 pm  

The only player that made any impact for us was Martin. Without him we have no attacking plays whatsoever

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:32 pm  

The game management at times is just amateurish. 2 minutes to half time, we try throwing a few silly passes and give the ball back on half way, which resulted in them kicking a penalty.
McDonnell having to kick on the last tackle of the first set of the half.
Miller almost knocked the wall down to give them a 7 tackle set just after O'Connor's try, which totally gave the momentum back to Huddersfield.
And finally, the drop out from hell.

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:37 pm  

We are a joke of a team. The only player on the field tonight that made any significant impact was Martin, but when he made the breaks he had nobody backing him up. Our defence was woeful and we never built any pressure. We did not deserve to win the game and were very lucky to be in with a chance on 70mins. To make the evenig worse it was freezing

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:51 pm  

Four home defeats on the bounce, and a different but in some ways worse performance than against Wire. Its like we trade one weakness for another, and underlying problems just aren't getting fixed as they creep back far too often.

If one thing sums up how stuttering we are, its that we're nine games into the season and Croft and Frawley have scored just one try between them. That is the result of a whole host of issues with the way we've been playing, and is almost the same as Austin/Sezer at the same stage last year (a whole one try more...). Aside from the initial run in 2022 under Smith, our halfbacks have looked awful in the majority of games. It really is beginning to look like the issue in some cases isn't the players.....

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:16 am  

A couple of posters who have scoffed at criticism of smith and team performances are noticeable by their absence...

I get they want to avoid negativity but if the team were performing now any critics would be called out for their absence.

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:28 am  

just said the same on another thread

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:53 am  

listening to smiths interview hes starting to really panic and that shows, previously hes not overly leant on decisions going our way but hes grasping at that now too.

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:54 am  

Good first half, everything we wanted to see.

Those early tries in the second half seemed to destroy our confidence and momentum but thought we did well to get 12 points ahead again, when we weren’t playing great.

Masters destroyed our right edge, thought he had a great game.

We really need to show more resilience, and cut out the dumb plays

Re: RD 8 | Huddersfield Giants (H) : Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:58 am  

leedsbarmyarmy wrote:

We really need to show more resilience, and cut out the dumb plays

This has been said for too long now, the problem starts with smith and clearly these repeated issues arent changing anytime soon.

I'll be honest the first half was decent and steady and again we made some good breaks but yet again the fundamentals of attacking in good ball were 'clunky' and some of the last tackle plays still really poor, Frawley in particular continues to prove doubters right with his performances.