HUDDERSFIELD GIANTS head coach Jim Lenihan took some encouraging signs from the 38-6 defeat at St Helens.
He said: “We did get some improvement on our game from last week (a 36-12 loss at Hull FC). We took on their middles a little more and we dragged them down.
“Twenty minutes into the second half, at 18-6, we hit a bit of a red line at the back end there; George (Flanagan) went off with cramp and we had a few HIAs to contend with through the game. We just probably fell away a little.
“Given the way we started the game and the way that we got into our second half, we created the weakness in them and put them under fatigue; we worked really hard at that. Now we’re on the journey of working through our own fatigue and getting better in that space.
“There are certainly some green ticks in there today, but with some things we’ve got to keep working on.
“But the contact and the effort that goes into creating weaknesses in the other team were really important for us today and we did that.”