In true Giants fans style the season is off to a flying start....blame and double standards abound!
We have a pile of injuries, must be somebody's fault, let's ignore all the injury types and blame the conditioning team!
There's a clamour to bring players in, the club take a punt on giving Jamie Foster a TRIAL and this is immediately criticised...give it a chance it may or may not come off but at least they are doing something and he has experience.
I'm sure they are looking for others but at this point it won't be easy.
Often criticised for not giving the kids a chance, now complaints because we are playing kids and not experienced stand ins
Scott Grix place is constantly questioned and is slated but now he's injured he is suddenly a big miss!
Same applies to a large degree with Robbo ..
Patrick is slated after ONE game back for a dropped ball under pressure in torrential rain and a slightly low pass....Jerry drops a dolly of a pass first tackle under posts...no comment made
If there's a stadium cat it had better beware it will be to blame soon!
We have a tough few weeks ahead with injuries, as others have had, surely its time to get behind the team, whoever plays .. time to stop looking for scapegoats and excuses and get on with it, it's all part of sport with no guarantees.
And please look at what all players do ... mistakes are not confined to the same one or two.
Whatever the team we put out on Friday I do believe we can win!!!

IF we lose on friday then anyone who criticises wants to give their heads a massive shake and bang it against a very hard brick wall.

looking at that squad, we have no right to get anywhere near Wigan, so let's get behind the lads who do play and back the boys for 80 minutes!

Not sure what is the most annoying the pitchforkers or the holier than thou types.

You cannot lump every issue in together because you will so readily miss the point.

Some of us said at the END of last season that our squad was not big enough or had the quality to move forward from where we were.

Some of us said that there have been concerns about club recruitment and retention for a long time EG giving contracts to players who had their best years behind them,

Some of us said that we needed more quality in the team. Not last week but last year.

Some of us said we should go for Hampshire. Apparently he was offered to us but we said he had to play at Full back and he wanted to be in the halves so now he is at Cas.

We have a mixture of an ageing squad with lots of raw youngsters we do not seem to have enough in the middle whi h is why when players get injured we now struggle to get them together.

My criticism about foster is not that about his quality or lack of it but the fact that i think our club mangers are so daft they would give him a long contract out of desperation.

The issues are about the management of the club which IMHO leaves something to be desired.

All the holier than thou types seem to ignore this and any criticism of the club is just pigeon holed and ignored.

Maybe we could try and get Hampshire on loan then as he was surplus to requirements for cas last week?

It's true Hampshire was offered to you, but it was himself what declined the move because your coach wanted him to play at FB, which as Rocky said I might as well stop at Wigan and play full back as go there.

i agree with Durham why the hell the didn't try and sign Jones a second row who can play is beyond me .but we are where we are the one thing i have noticed over the years when a club has a injury list like this is that more players get injured before players return. maybe this happens because players who would normal be rested due to the normal strains of the game just have to play on. we can just hope that the cavalry turns up in time to get us into the top 8

As long as we don't panic that's the main thing...

how do we know he didn't try and sign Jones?

total rugby league news meast reported before he went to Salford that we where not intrested

could just be the "official" word, could also mean the player wasn't interested in us.

anyway, like i said, no one could have known 2 weeks ago how bad things would get.

Yes they could.!!!!!!









If you have a very small squad to start with and some players who have medical problems and are carrying knocks like a half back who has been struggling for a couple of seasons with a hip problem and can only play with injections. Some teams might say actually he is a risk we should replace him at The Giants we say Give him a two year extension !!!!!! it is not rocket science to think if we have a few injuries we might struggle. Particularly if you look at the squad and say

IF we lost two backs who would we bring in ?

That is called risk management/ planning/ etc.

Look at the first team squad. Look at the number of experienced players and think if they got injured how many of the youngsters could step up and play week in and week out, how many can we rely on in a big game. We had a really small squad .

I admit the ferres saga left us in the doo dah but Robbo has himself said he has been struggling for two years. Anderson and Thewlis must have known that last season ,

I don't know why you bother Durham, you've stopped attending games and you don't have a good word to say about the players, the coaching staff, the directors or other fans of the club
Perhaps you should start supporting another team.....