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they’re managing games,” said Stone, whose side have now gone seven Super League games without a win.

“I can’t keep coming in here and defending them.

“They’ve got to start taking some responsibility for some of the things they’re doing out on the field.

“If they don’t start doing something about it, they’re not going to win too many games. We can’t keep serving teams games on a platter.

“We showed how to selfdestruct in 20 minutes and it’s increasingly frustrating. It just digs us into a deeper hole.”

Huddersfield conceded one of the tries while down to 12 men with acting captain Danny Brough sent to the sin bin for disputing match referee Chris Campbell’s decision to award the visitors a 20-metre re-start instead of a drop-out.

“I can see Danny’s frustration,” Stone said. “It was a pretty pivotal part of the game.

“Krisnan Inu clearly takes the ball in the field of play, not the in-goal, and Danny has challenged the referee.

“He takes pride in putting his kicks in the right spot and, as captain he has got the right to ask, but eventually he has got to accept the referee’s decision and move on with it.”

Huddersfield grabbed late tries from Jermaine McGillvary and Sam Wood, while the home fans were consoled by the man-of-the-match performance from Mamo, who made his eagerly-awaited Super League bow after recovering from a broken ankle.

“It was good to see Jake play,” Stone said. “I thought he handled getting our defence right and he was potent when he got the footy. It was one positive from the night and he’s only going to get better because he hasn’t done a heap of running.”