I have no problem with Huddersfield doing this. How could I after us doing it in the past? I'm happy with you gifting us the points and, if it's not competitive, as long as we win, I don't care.

However, it might be worth noting that the one time we did it the week before the final in 2002 (the 2004 one was two or three weeks before), we came badly unstuck in the final and the players looked just that crucial bit short of sharpness and cohesion.

In fact, going back over the years, I remember Saints doing it in 1987 and Leeds in 1994 too and it didn't work for either of them.

I hope this does not backfire on you the same way it did with us, but I'm just not so sure it's the right policy at all.

I hope we dont come unstuck too

That said, I do think some of them are genuine injuries that need resting, Wild for certain, Jammer too

Last year you made 6 changes (and i think the same the year before) playing guys who had not played all year.

In 07 and 08 Wellens/Pryce and Fa'asavalu all missed the pre CCF game and then recovered for the CCF!

COCKNEY GIANT wrote:INJURED FAIUMU REPLACED BY WORTHINGTON IN SQUAD Huddersfield Giants have have been forced to amend their 19 man squad for tonights game against St Helens as David Faiumu has pulled out with an injured groin sustained in training. Scrum half Greg Worthington is brought into the squad. The Giants 19 man squad is as follows: 2) Martin Aspinwall 8 ) Eorl Crabtree 9) David Faiumu 10) Darrell Griffin 12) Andy Raleigh 14) Simon Finnigan 15) Paul Jackson 18 ) Danny Kirmond 19) Michael Lawrence 20) Scott Moore 21) Leroy Cudjoe 24) Shaun Lunt 26) Tom Hemingway 28 ) Josh Griffin 29) Keal Carlile 30) Larne Patrick 33) Danny Sculthorpe 34) Elliot Hodgson 36) Alex Brown 37) Greg Worthington http://giantsrl.dnsupdate.co.uk/latestN ... Index=2968 Are there 2 fooey's in our squad :lol: :wink:

COCKNEY GIANT wrote:INJURED FAIUMU REPLACED BY WORTHINGTON IN SQUAD Huddersfield Giants have have been forced to amend their 19 man squad for tonights game against St Helens as David Faiumu has pulled out with an injured groin sustained in training. Scrum half Greg Worthington is brought into the squad. The Giants 19 man squad is as follows: 2) Martin Aspinwall 8 ) Eorl Crabtree 9) David Faiumu 10) Darrell Griffin 12) Andy Raleigh 14) Simon Finnigan 15) Paul Jackson 18 ) Danny Kirmond 19) Michael Lawrence 20) Scott Moore 21) Leroy Cudjoe 24) Shaun Lunt 26) Tom Hemingway 28 ) Josh Griffin 29) Keal Carlile 30) Larne Patrick 33) Danny Sculthorpe 34) Elliot Hodgson 36) Alex Brown 37) Greg Worthington http://giantsrl.dnsupdate.co.uk/latestN ... Index=2968 Are there 2 fooey's in our squad :lol: :wink:

and 20 players!

the thing about the final is there is always one loser. If we win it worked, it we don't it didn't. Regardless of how it pans out on the day that will be the assumption.

a week off for some of the players should do a power of good, worked against hull a week before saints and also look how hull kr and bradford did last week after there week off

No disrespect to Super League, but TBH I can't wait for the game tonight to be over so we can fully focus on the final.

my personal thought on this is thus:

do we play a weakend side against a more or less full strength saints and risk a heavy defeat which could demoralise the whole squad and go into the cup final on the back of 2 poor defeats

or

do we go there all guns blazing with as strong a team as we can muster i know we have at least 4 genuine injuries, wild,lolesi,fatz and hodgson,and go for a famous win which will boost confidence even more throughout the squad going into the cup final?

fair enough by playing our main men we run the risk of losing them to injury before wembley,but what effect would a potential shattering defeat have on us?

I have a funny feeling...

Could be wind, but could be something else.