In situations like today context and perception goes a long way to defining the mood of a fan base.


If we had lost narrowly to Wire, in a decent performance, but had won yesterday, especially if it came off a battling second half performance with a man down, then we would still be on eleven points from ten games but the mood on here would be wholly different. None of us would be feeling quite as deflated as we have been since yesterday's game.


I think the problem for most of us is the creeping feeling that, after the completely unexpected opening few games to the season, there is now an air of us slowly sliding backwards again with some of last year's bad traits beginning to resurface once more, chiefly indiscipline.


If we win at Headingly then everyone's going to be buoyant again, writing off yesterday as one bad game in a decent season so far, but if we lose these three upcoming away games we'll go into the Cas home game in June feeling under tremendous pressure to get a win in order to stop the rot which in turn is likely to make everyone apprehensive and nervy again.


Like I said, it's context and perception here. We're feeling that the direction of travel, after yesterday's disappointing display, has suddenly become backwards and downwards again. The spectre of last year's horror show is never too far from all of our minds, a dread of it returning to haunt us again. Somehow, Cartwright needs to reset the squad and alter that perception that we are starting to slide backwards again. If we go into the Cas game on the back of one win in eight then we will be back in familiar territory once more with everyone wondering where the next win is coming from.


Watching the games over the weekend I wasn't overly impressed with any of Cats, Leeds or Saints, so that middle group still looks wide open to me, but we need to rediscover how to win games again fairly sharpish or this run will turn into a mid season rot.

A  minute after the decision to give a knock on against swift was overturned when it was more of a knock on

The key moment for me is the Cust no-try. If he grounds the ball we go in at the break 12-8 up and, more importantly, those two minutes of madness hasn't happened. In that scenario I think we ease away to a comfortable win. Huddersfield were still poor even with the man advantage.


Even playing with a man down all it would have taken is one half break in that last twenty minutes and we come away from the afternoon with two scrambled points and we're still inside the top four. Whatever the circumstances it's still annoying that we let it slip through our fingers. On that showing Huddersfield aren't going to be winning too many games this year even with players returning from injury. They looked clueless for large parts of yesterday.


But we still need to get back to winning ways as soon as so this doesn't turn into a developing rot.

Without the ball, he's a decent player, but with the ball, the stats speak for themselves.

Obviously doesn't think Wainhouse is ready yet.

I'm also starting to think burough is just another Danny Houghton. Decent defence but not offering enough in attack and distribution from dummy half is hit and miss

Bourouh will be fine if he is spelled and calms down a bit, got a decent scoot and can set up a near the line, just not an 80 minute player. Is there another hooker in SL who regularly plays 80 mins at hooker.


Not sure what our obsession as a club is with it.