Huddersfield Giants

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Huddersfield had a trial against Batley today.

Batley 06 def. by Huddersfield 30

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Well I was out at the game last night and got to catch up with a few people from the TRL forum... bloody alot of fun out in Hudds and got to hang out in a totally League only pub!!!!! I never thought that would happen in the UK

Anyway some observations...

Galpharm Stadium: I love it. Its a really nice stadium lots of room to get around and easy enough access. Have a great view of the field from where I was and even with nearly 11,000 in there had a good atmosphere.

Segregation: Its sad to see that this is in RL now. The Hull fans all to one end, though making lots of noise I love it in Aus when the fans are all mixed in and and you get the banter between stes. I am told thuis has come in due tio the FC/KR rivalry?

The game itself. Was pretty good over all. Hull FC were very good at retaining and completing tehir sets of six, Hudds just kept dropping that ball and could not get enough momentum going. The ref Smith was Fucking useless. Jeez how many forwardn passes can a man miss! I think I counted 4 blatant ones by like a meter that were in front of me.

Huddersfield: Great little town... got dragged to the most obscure part of touwn for beers and then a sports club... but it was ll rugby league and nothing else. We then had an easy 10 min walk to the stadium which looks great coming over the hill. I am now not as critical of the RFL decision to use this place... the poms have to just stop whinging and go to the NZ game!

Hodgson: is a club favourite. Apparently hes been spectacular in their first three games but last night, though solid was nothing overly special from what I remember in the NRL. His kicking is useless as always though.

So just a few comments.

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www.superleague.co.uk/report.php?id=3089714

Former Great Britain winger David Hodgson scored his first hat-trick of tries for Huddersfield as the Giants edged a thriller to bring Castleford Tigers’ winning run to an end.

The Tigers were on course to make it four engage Super League wins in a row for the first time for seven years when they led 12-6, but the visitors demonstrated superior finishing to nudge in front by the break.

And the Giants then defended superbly despite being reduced to 12 men through the sin-binning of Leroy Cudgoe to clinch a third away win of the season.

Huddersfield, who gave a debut to 20-year-old back row forward Larne Patrick in the absence of five regulars through injury, made a dream start with a try after just 23 seconds.

They collected the ball from their own kick-off thanks to a piece of opportunism by hooker Scott Moore and caught the Castleford defence unawares with Luke Robinson sending second rower Jamahl Lolesi through a yawning gap.

Unshaken, the Tigers attacked with confidence gained from consecutive wins against Wigan Warriors, Salford City Reds and Catalans Dragons and struck back with two tries in a four-minute spell.

A break down the left by winger Richard Owen set up the position for centre James Evans to cross on the right, courtesy of Brent Sherwin’s long pass, and then prop Craig Huby took Ryan Hudson’s pass from dummy half to crash over by the posts.

Kirk Dixon added both conversions to put the home side 12-6 up but Huddersfield scored a second try on 15 minutes when left winger Hodgson easily won the race to Kevin Brown’s kick to the corner.

Castleford dominated the rest of the half, with Sherwin pulling the strings to telling effect, but they failed to add to their score.

Centre Michael Shenton got to the line but was turned on his back by defender Cudjoe while second rower Brett Ferres suffered the misfortune of dropping the ball over the line.

The misses began to look costly when Brown and Brett Hodgson combined to get David Hodgson over for his second try five minutes before the break.

And the ex-Halifax, Wigan and Salford winger completed his hat-trick eight minutes into the second half following superb work from Cudjoe.

Brett Hodgson’s second conversion put his side 20-12 in front but they spent the next 10 minutes camped inside their own half and the pressure told when the Tigers touched down twice in four minutes.

Full-back Ryan McGoldrick got Huby over for his second try and three minutes later Ferres made up for his earlier blunder by crossing wide out to tie the scores.

Brett Hodgson then took a decisive hand to determine the outcome of the match, pulling off a last-ditch tackle to deny Owen before forcing his way over from dummy half for the Giants’ fifth try.

The drama continued when Cudjoe was sin-binned for holding Rangi Chase down in the tackle and Castleford immediately made their numerical advantage pay by working the ball out wide for Ferres to score his second try.

Dixon had a chance to tie the scores but his difficult conversion attempt drifted wide.

Brown fluffed a glorious chance to wrap up Huddersfield’s win when he raced 60 metres after intercepting Sione Faumuina’s kick but the visitors hung on for a fortuitious victory.

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Finally the clip from when I went to see Hudds and Hull at the Galpharm.

A bit of Leigh v Loko on the end too.