THAT’S First Nou Camp, now Anfield gets a taste of Dragons fire
FURIOUS Lee Radford let rip at his players after this humiliating 10-try thrashing.
Hull could have gone third with a decent win but they threw in the towel and never looked like they had the stomach for a fight.
Radford moaned: “It puts us on that rollercoaster again. It is not good mentally as a coach and it cannot be good for the players.
“If I knew the answer we would not be tossing up performances like that. We train consistently but once they cross the white line what goes on between their ears is not up to me.”
Radford insists it’s time they stopped yo-yoing. He said: “The one thing this team is consistent at is inconsistency. If we had won by that scoreline I wouldn’t have been surprised.”
The win lifts the Giants up to eighth and within two points of the play-offs places, as well as crucially boosting their points difference.
Coach Simon Woolford said: “Our for and against is not great but today was the closest we’ve got to getting our attack right.
“We didn’t start the season so great but that was a complete performance. There are more to come, I’ve no doubt about that.”
This was Huddersfield’s ninth win from 13 Magic Weekend games and Woolford said: “The guys made a pact that Hull were not going to score in that second half.”
Brothers Joe and Jake Wardle both scored early on to get the rout under way and Adam O’brien and Darnell Mcintosh scored further first-half tries.
Marc Sneyd kicked a Hull penalty to make it 21-2 at half time before the floodgates opened in the second half.
O’brien and Mcintosh grabbed their second tries, Jermaine Mcgillvary also scored twice, with the other tries coming from Alex Mellor and Aaron Murphy. STEVE MCNAMARA’S big game stars grabbed themselves the glory in a second successive high profile showdown.
Catalans brushed aside Wigan when the two clubs made Super League history in Barcelona’s Nou Camp last weekend.
This time it was Liverpool, and Magic Weekend’s debut at Anfield, that brought out the fighting spirit in the Dragons. Mcnamara said: “It was really difficult for us after last week because that was such a big game for us.
“I was extremely proud then because that was a huge event for the club but to come to another big occasion and win is great.”
Dominated
The French side dominated the first half and led 12-0 with tries from Fouad Yaha and man of the match Tony Gigot.
They got lucky with their second touchdown though, with Kenny Edwards throwing out an obvious forward pass in the build-up.
POWER PLAY It came minutes after Wakefield had a Mason Caton-brown chance ruled out because of a pass by Max Jowitt which was nowhere near as clear-cut forward as Edwards’.
Trinity responded well to the double whammy, coming out for the second half on fire and within five minutes the game was all square thanks to tries from Kyle Wood and Danny Kirmond.
Mcnamara added: “It was really interesting to see how we would react because at times in games when we have been put under that pressure, and put on the back foot, we have not dealt with it in the right manner.
“But we did enough to get back in the game, stay in it and win. We were down a bit on energy from the week before and we weren’t at our best but it was a very important two points.”
Wakefield threatened to take control in the opening 20 minutes of the second half but James Batchelor wasted a chance and Mason CatonBrown had a try disallowed.
The l et- offs allowed Catalans a way back in, to leave disappointed coach