I hear what you're saying danril and you are right that the club has been through alot of crap and the fans who have stood by the club through thin and thinner are very special, rugby league diehards. I do think era of the biff has a valid point though, far too many of the 'fans' who came to the final were daytrippers who wanted to see wembley and have a day of fun in the sun. Sat in the stand the saints fans we had sat with us made more noise for the Giants than the bulk of Giants speccies in our block and it really does my nut. I'm not really bothered about how many trophies we win or whatever because like you I will stay Huddersfield come what may, I love the club. Admission is cheap, we have great deals on season tickets and family ticket packages but all of this has not done as much as it should to get a really strong, loyal following. I feel for Davy, he has my total respect....he must feel like calling it a day every now and again when he looks at the empty portions of stands and then see's support like the wolves today. Huddersfield is a soccer town, sad but true.

Just thank the Lord that you are'nt an Hull F.C supporter, we are served up the same crap every week, just have a peep at our forum to get a flavour!

At times it is really, really annoying.



To a degree I think we do need to improve our marketing of the games though. We could take a leaf out of Wigan's book, their marketing is the best in the game IMO. I also think there should be some central marketing arm with the RFL that could go and work with all the clubs.

Having said that, you will be getting Tickle next season!

Bloody hell that's a bit unfair on Salford isn't it?

We wouldnt have won a Challenge Cup tie this weekend no matter who the opposition playing as we did today. Salford beat us the other week - a sign of things to come.



Looking at the players today - has NB lost the dressing room one wonders. I know its only one game but if we play like that next week we'll get another tonking against the pies.



With regard to marketing I dont think the club can do much more - lets just face it the people of Huddersfield just cant be bothered!?. Cheap season tickets, etc etc and walking through Town today they would much rather go shopping or watch it on TV. I sell Golden Gamble tickets before the game with my seven year old son who stands with me freezing cold (it was cold today) collecting the money because we care about the club. We only come from Shipley but we still make the effort, Durham obviously comes a long way good on him as do other supporters, and people who buy golden gamble tickets care about the club - they are a quid for goodness sake but for those that buy them I salute you - thank you.



It saddens me however that a Town with such proud sporting traditions of the past breeds such apathy.

Couple of points on this thread that deserve commenting on. You won't talk to any Wire fan who was expecting that today - we've known for a while we've had it in us & you only have to look at Lee Briers pulling out the bag of tricks in the 2nd half to appreciate that it was one of those special days for a rugy team where everything works. However we certainly didn't expect a performance like that against a team like the Giants & will expect a much more competitive game in a fortnight.



As has been said also, it was a game where as much as everything went right for us, nothing went right for you. Silly errors, knock-ons, missed touch, bounce of the ball & 50/50 decisions all went against you. Your players were off the boil & while you can afford to carry a couple in a game not firing on all cylinders you can't afford to have 12 or 14 having a bad day as you did today. 12 months ago Harlequins (yes Harlequins) put 60 on us at the Stoop & we moved on - same as you will move on from today. You have a rotten schedule of fixtures playing us & Wigan twice each in 4 weeks, but then us & Wigan would say the same to play you twice would be difficult games. You'll bounce back I have no doubt.



As for fans, well it was a pretty poor turnout today - 6000 with half being away fans is a pretty poor show. However scheduling a cup round the week after Magic Weekend isn't the greatest idea ever. And 20,000 at Wembley, well so what if they were glory hunters - had you won you'd be over 10k average attendance this year and at least you can fit them all into the ground! We took 30,000 and can only squeeze 14k into our ground so plenty of glory hunters there!



Good luck v pies next week & see you in a fortnight.

Salford battered us at theirs too!

Salford knew we were disrespecting them with the squad we put out and went right at us and we had no answer. That was a shocking decision by Nathan to rest the players he did, Salford are a bit of a bogey side for us as well. I was happy for Salford that day, good club and decent fans and we got exactly what we deserved. Although to be fair our support that day was great. Typical the time we get a good away following, the team cacks it's pants.

something has gone terribly wrong at Huddersfield

strangely enough since you signed a certain Danny Brough...

Spot on by Magic Piano



Bad day at the office. All those who are about to slit their wrists get a grip.



Onwards and upwards.

How do you work that out? We've just recorded our 2 biggest average attendances ever in the last 2 seasons when we finished 11th and 12th