Re: Friendly | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Sun Mar 14, 2021 3:53 pm  

Marty Grrrrrrrrrr! wrote:

He did ok, ran well and tackled strongly but you can see there is mistakes aplenty in him.

Yes could be a rocks or diamonds player although the weather looked pretty bad.

He should have scored near the end he just needed to dive and slide over.

I think we looked pretty strong defensively

Re: Friendly | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Sun Mar 14, 2021 3:54 pm  

Seth wrote:

Suspect grip of the ball though.

Mentioned his ball security in his signing thread, from his games in the nrl last season the one worry i had was he lost the ball quite a lot in contact.

Thought broadbent was good yet again and Oledzki the pick of our forwards.

Re: Friendly | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Sun Mar 14, 2021 3:54 pm  

Excellent last 20 minutes.
Lots of errors in first half and plenty of rustiness, but some glimpses of good stuff.
Broadbent MoM for me. Looks a class act. Should be given a chance at FB.
Totally burned Magillvray for the try.
Really impressed with King as well. Some big carries and shots.
Needs to protect the ball better and needs more fitness, but he’ll go well.
Whoever said he doesn’t look big enough for the front row has got him confused with someone else! He’s a unit.
Impressed with the 10 minute cameo from Edwards and Gannon as well, but doubt they’ll get much game time tbh.

Re: Friendly | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Sun Mar 14, 2021 3:58 pm  

Lots of errors and some green performances. But, like has been mentioned, a makeshift side with a lot out of position so no need to panic. Fingers crossed for Handley, looked nasty. And 6pts off a near 1st choice Hudds team, ill take that.

I was just glad to see some RL on telly and specifically my team. Roll on 2 weeks!

Re: Friendly | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Sun Mar 14, 2021 4:21 pm  

Medial knee injury for Handley. Scan tomorrow

Re: Friendly | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Sun Mar 14, 2021 4:54 pm  

cheekydiddles wrote:

Medial knee injury for Handley. Scan tomorrow

Hmmm. Could be a couple of months out......
Surely Broadbent will deputise....

Re: Friendly | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Sun Mar 14, 2021 5:03 pm  

Id definitely give Broadbent a run at centre if Newman isn't ready for the start of the year. Didn't look out of place at centre or fullback and was probably our best on park. Bodene had a very good game too. He should get a bench spot for game 1. Deserves it on todays performance.

At the end of the day it was an average trial game. Plenty of errors and penalties and two teams that on paper should have been mismatched. Leeds defensive structure looked good which was a major positive for me. They scored two tries down Hall/Tindalls wing but apart from that, didnt really create much. Even though we didn't execute very well either I liked our set up plays in their 20 as well. With our first choice halves playing and some more decisive hole runners we will break a lot of teams down with the spaces we created today. Having a centre at 6 and a ball running 6 at 7 didn't really help us do anything today though and after Handley went off we struggled to isolate the outside defender.

Re: Friendly | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Sun Mar 14, 2021 5:39 pm  

Shabino wrote:

Hmmm. Could be a couple of months out......
Surely Broadbent will deputise....

I am not a medical genius but i think if it is medial then it may well be alot longer than 2 months

Re: Friendly | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Sun Mar 14, 2021 5:45 pm  

ploinerrhino wrote:

I am not a medical genius but i think if it is medial then it may well be alot longer than 2 months

Depends if its torn. If it's just strained could be back in a couple of weeks.

Re: Friendly | Huddersfield Giants (A) : Sun Mar 14, 2021 5:57 pm  

Harrigan wrote:

Id definitely give Broadbent a run at centre if Newman isn't ready for the start of the year. Didn't look out of place at centre or fullback and was probably our best on park. Bodene had a very good game too. He should get a bench spot for game 1. Deserves it on todays performance.

At the end of the day it was an average trial game. Plenty of errors and penalties and two teams that on paper should have been mismatched. Leeds defensive structure looked good which was a major positive for me. They scored two tries down Hall/Tindalls wing but apart from that, didnt really create much. Even though we didn't execute very well either I liked our set up plays in their 20 as well. With our first choice halves playing and some more decisive hole runners we will break a lot of teams down with the spaces we created today. Having a centre at 6 and a ball running 6 at 7 didn't really help us do anything today though and after Handley went off we struggled to isolate the outside defender.

Koni and Liam Sutcliffe will be centres week 1 i wouldve thought. Jack did himself a lot of good again today tho.