Match report: Hull FC 14 - 6 Huddersfield Giants
Feb 13 2010 by Chris Roberts, Huddersfield Daily Examiner
But, in all truth, that lead should have been just six at half-time as Luke Robinson failed to pass to a supporting teammate with the tryline begging following the scrum half’s wonderful individual break in the 38th minute.
Fortunately, that proved to be a taste of things to come at the start of the second half, with Huddersfield opening strongly.
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And within four minutes they had struck for the first time.
On the back of receiving a cheap penalty, the Giants took the ball to the line for Robinson to work his magic and create the opportunity for Scott Grix to crash over under the posts for his first try in the claret and gold.
Cudjoe converted and, at 12-6, the visitors were right back in it.
Yet despite the major psychological boost, they failed to gain any significant momentum, and after 55 minutes Tickle landed a straight 40m penalty to calm Hull’s nerves.
It looked as if Huddersfield had reduced the deficit five minutes later when Cudjoe’s long pass to the corner enabled Lolesi to finish superbly, but the ball was ruled forward.
Then six minutes later the Giants were denied by the officials again when David Hodgson collected a loose ball on halfway and raced away to score.
But the touchjudge ruled the ball had been spilt as a result of a Giants’ knock-on on the back of Hull losing possession.
It was a case of deja vu once again in the 73rd minute when Crabtree’s offload on the Hull 20 bounced off a defender and into the path of Brown, who would have scored but referee Thierry Alibert ruled a knock-on, despite the obvious howls of protest.
It just summed up Huddersfield’s day.
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