Nathan Brown column: Giants can’t afford to dwell on Leeds defeat

Apr 23 2009 by Chris Roberts, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Are you still feeling very disappointed with the way things went against Leeds last weekend?

We’ve drawn a line under that now and moved on.

As I said straight after the game, Leeds were too good for us and we couldn’t offer any excuses.

We had times during the first half when we defended ourselves back into the game, but then dropped the ball on play one and two when we were in good positions.

So we never really got the chance to challenge them because we kept dropping the ball.

All we can do is learn from the mistakes we made and make sure that when we play them next time we’ve improved in the areas of our game that still need a slight improvement.

Were you able to take any positives from the game?

That’s always difficult when you’ve just suffered such a disappointing defeat.

But I thought Eorl Crabtree played well when he came on and caused the Leeds’ defence problems.

And, once again, Bruno (Michael Lawrence) handled himself very well.

He was marking Keith Senior, who’s been a fair player over the years, and I felt he did a reasonable job against him.

At this stage in the week, are you planning on making any changes for the trip to Warrington Wolves?

We’ll have to wait and see.

Although we’ve had some very disappointing news over the knee injury to Andy Raleigh (he’s out for six weeks rather than just two) and Liam Fulton’s obviously out for a fair while, all 17 players who featured against Leeds came through OK and should be available for selection.

We’ve also got Martin Aspinwall and Shaun Lunt waiting to return after they were omitted from the final 17 after being named in the 19-man squad.