Watto: Are you watching Shaun?
IAN Watson says former Warrington prop Chris Hill deserves an England recall and believes national coach Shaun Wane should also be looking at several more of his players following the Huddersfield Giants’ great start to the season.
The 34-year-old Hill is enjoying a resurgence following his closeseason move and the Claret and Gold head coach says former England forwards Josh Jones and Joe Greenwood are also playing well enough to be in contention for the World Cup.
Lolohea added the angled conversion and kicked a penalty in the 19th minute for a high tackle to extend the Giants’ lead to 8-0 as they began to dominate.
The home side ought to have made more of a break by former Hull second-rower Josh Jones and when winger Ashton Golding, deputising for the injured Jermaine McGillvary, crossed at the corner, he was brought back for a forward pass.
Unable to make much impression on the Giants’ defence, Hull needed a lift and it came with the introduction from the bench of fit-again Australian stand-off Josh Reynolds, whose delicate
“Shaun says he’s going to be picking on form and, if he’s picking on form, then at the moment you’d be looking at Chris Hill and also Joe Greenwood is doing phenomenally well,” kick on the last tackle created a 27th-minute try for Joe Lovodua, which captain Luke Gale goaled.
The Giants responded five minutes later with a trainingfield move in which Cogger switched the point of attack and Lolohea kicked into space for second-rower Chris McQueen to score their second try.
Lolohea kicked the conversion and added another penalty awarded for offside on the stroke of half-time to make it 16-6.
The Black and Whites stayed in the contest when secondrower Andre Savelio went through a gap in the Huddersfield defence for a 49th-minute try and they almost scored
Watson said after guiding his side into the Challenge Cup semifinals.
“We’ve got some good British players here. Josh Jones has been very solid again today. If Shaun’s watching, you would think there will be players he’d be keeping an eye on from Huddersfield.”
It is 69 years since Giants last won the cup and Watson says it would be a fitting reward for owner Ken Davy if they could end that wait this year.
“It would be awesome for him, but first we’ve got get back on the horse in Super League and, again after centre Josh Griffin pounced on a handling error by Fages.
Lolohea got back to make the tackle and Griffin lost the ball as he stretched for the line.
The miss began to look costly on 61 minutes when Huddersfield captain Luke Yates broke through the heart of the visitors’ defence and Lolohea had enough pace to finish off the move from 40 metres out.
The full-back converted his own try and kicked a third penalty to maintain his 100 per cent record but Hull had the final say when former Giants winger Darnell McIntosh went over for a consolation try six minutes from the end. when the semi-final comes around, we’ll focus on that,” he said.
“I’m just glad to be in the semifinals. This is where we want the club to get to and to do that you have to have the right people.
“Theo Fages and Chris Hill coming here have brought the right mentality to make us better in these big games. It’s that little bit of experience that our young lads need.
“I thought we played really well. We had a loss to them a couple of weeks ago when we felt contributed to that defeat. We wanted to rectify that.”