31 May: CCQF: Huddersfield Giants v Catalans Dragons KO 7.35pm (TV)

[John Drake]

Discuss the Challenge Cup quarter final Huddersfield Giants v Catalans Dragons here.

[Chronicler of Chiswick]

Hudd by 10.

[Harry Stottle]

Speaking with nothing more than personal feelings, I would prefer a Huddersfield victory, just as I imagine they would prefer Leigh to beat Leeds and so draw each other in the semi-final.

[davet]

Could well be the closest match of the round.

A couple of weeks ago, this match would have been bottom v next to bottom, but both are putting a bit of a run together.

Most prob won't be a classic by any means, as defeat would not neccassary be a bad ting for either team, but the incentive of continuning on their respective winning run and only being one more match away from a final should be enough to make sure both sets of players give it their all.

Home win for us Giants.  Would settle for it to by 2 scores so have some comfort going in to the last 5mins of the match.

Will be interested in seeing what the crowd will be.  Thursday night, on TV & not a lot of away fans

[GIANTSTRIDES]

1 hour ago, davet said:

Could well be the closest match of the round.

A couple of weeks ago, this match would have been bottom v next to bottom, but both are putting a bit of a run together.

Most prob won't be a classic by any means, as defeat would not neccassary be a bad ting for either team, but the incentive of continuning on their respective winning run and only being one more match away from a final should be enough to make sure both sets of players give it their all.

Home win for us Giants.  Would settle for it to by 2 scores so have some comfort going in to the last 5mins of the match.

Will be interested in seeing what the crowd will be.  Thursday night, on TV & not a lot of away fans

It will be the sort of crowd that pulls in the usual comments about Huddersfield not deserving a team and being a disgrace etc, etc, etc.

We have had some ding dongers with Catalan over the years and have a decent record against them, Both sides doing better of late so wouldn't know who to back if i were a betting man, Top 8 is more important to me but when i get there i will still be hoping for the win.

 I don't expect it to be a gentle affair, it never is against the Dragons which is not what we really want, us being a very fragile outfit of late , think we are down to about 5 injured players now , which is not too bad but we don't want a good hiding from a bunch of froggies thank you very much.

[Wollo Wollo Wayoo]

4 hours ago, davet said:

Will be interested in seeing what the crowd will be.  Thursday night, on TV & not a lot of away fans

Or home?

[Davc1h]

Great chance for either team to make the semi. From there anything is possible.

Hudds to just get by in a close one.

[fieldofclothofgold]

giants by 4

[fevtom]

I wonder if Huddersfield would get the same comments about crowd numbers if they played in a smaller stadium. Just a genuine question. Wakefield don't seem to get anywhere near the amount of comments about their smaller crowds.

[Ant]

Wakefield, Widnes and Salford all get smaller crowds, and have done habitually.

 

But it's just another thing to have a bash at the Giants for. It used to be because the stadium was the only thing keeping us in SL then we started winning games so it moved on to no fans  (despite being better than others). 

I'm sure if we got better crowds the target would shift again to something else equally bull####

 

 

[Wollo Wollo Wayoo]

11 minutes ago, Ant said:

Wakefield, Widnes and Salford all get smaller crowds, and have done habitually.

I'm sure if we got better crowds the target would shift again to something else equally bull####

 

 

Something like:  Widnes and Wakey fans are paying full whack rather than boosting the bums on seats with freebies and cut price deals?

[Ant]

Yeah weve had that too (often at the same time as Wakey were offering cheap tickets)

There has also been years of "yeah but merger" too so hey ho. 

[WakefieldCityLoyal]

57 minutes ago, Ant said:

Wakefield, Widnes and Salford all get smaller crowds, and have done habitually.

 

But it's just another thing to have a bash at the Giants for. It used to be because the stadium was the only thing keeping us in SL then we started winning games so it moved on to no fans  (despite being better than others). 

I'm sure if we got better crowds the target would shift again to something else equally bull####

 

 

The difference is potential in recent years ,Huddersfield have won the league reached Challenge Cup finals play in a modern stadium sell cheap tickets but don't see any increase.  Can't blame the ones that go it's the ones that don't most clubs have that problem.

Up the Trin 

 

[Ant]

If only that were true.

Why don't Warrington sell out each week then? Why haven't they improved?

 

Why haven't Trin improved their crowds in the last 2 years?

Why has the entirely of SL stayed pretty much level in terms of spectators for a decade? 

But Yeah, it's the Giants fault. Thanks for proving the point

 

[daz39]

2 hours ago, fevtom said:

I wonder if Huddersfield would get the same comments about crowd numbers if they played in a smaller stadium. Just a genuine question. Wakefield don't seem to get anywhere near the amount of comments about their smaller crowds.

Most people connected with the Giants know we get hammered for our 'crowds' when in fact it's the amount of empty seats we get judged on not the amount of people who are there.

As said elsewhere, Wakefield, Widnes and Salford all get less or around the same as us, Cas and Hull KR not that much more but because their grounds are smaller it doesn't look as bad as 20,000 empty seats does for ours.

I remember Eddie on Sky banging on about the crowd flocking to a Cas game a few years back, it was 6,000 something but the next day we were on Sky too and got more but they were on about the lack of a crowd.

There's been a lot to keep the RL fans of Huddersfield away in the last couple of years, hopefully a decent finish to the season and a cup final may just bring some of them back.

[silcoates]

Get back to Fartown where you belong-Before you get kicked out by all the foreigners at Hudd.town.

[Manfred Mann]

Anything could happen in this game. Either side could win.

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

Kenny Edwards registration confirmed by the RFL; "he could make his debut tonight against Huddersfield" says the Dragons' official website.

[Ant]

Not played in months, jet lagged. Expect a massive game from him now lol 

[GIANTSTRIDES]

4 hours ago, silcoates said:

Get back to Fartown where you belong-Before you get kicked out by all the foreigners at Hudd.town.

 

Don't know how or why you think that could happen, K Davy could have kept his 60% of the stadium if he had wanted, No doubt money played it's part but i think he wanted to do the right thing as well. He still owns 20% now so if someone is going to kick him out it's going to cost them.

 Personally i would be happy to go back to a refurbished/ rebuilt Fartown, something Town could do for a quarter of what they will pay for one player, so who know's, seems like a ideal solution to me, Thing is there is a lot more planned for down there so how involved it all is who know's,

Town have certainly spruced it all up and the Giants get full benefit of that so Hey ho.

[DavidM]

Not a big crowd but the good news is the tin can man has turned up

[chuffer]

4 minutes ago, DavidM said:

the good news is the tin can man has turned up

Yay!....see its quality not quantity

[DavidM]

No way , shocking Gigot 

[phiggins]

1 minute ago, DavidM said:

No way , shocking Gigot 

Really is sad to see players using protocols brought in specifically for their own welfare against referees so they can milk penalties.

It's no longer about who's the best at playing the sport, and more about who's the best at playing the system

[Old Frightful]

Well said Brian Carney, Gigot held his nose as soon as he was tackled in spite of not being hit anywhere near.

Gigot is a f***king cheat of the highest order.