HUDDERSFIELD need to cut out the defensive errors as they bid to get their first win of the season when they take on National II North new boys Stourbridge at Lockwood Park tomorrow (3.00).
Although Huddersfield scored four tries at Otley last week, therefore securing them a bonus point, they did let in six tries at the other end, which was disturbing from head coach Dan Hyde’s point of view.
“They scored two directly from kick-offs, and another from us kicking too deep, which really was the big difference, because I felt we very much had parity in open play,” said Hyde.
“So really, the tries that they did score, they didn’t have to work very hard for.
“It was frustrating at Otley (Huddersfield went down 45-27), but on the positive side we came away with four tries of our own, which I was very pleased with, so we are not a team in crisis.
“Obviously with the players we have lost we are going through a transitional phase at the moment and we are still settling in and the lads who are coming in are learning all the time.”
With a number of fitness tests planned tomorrow morning, Hyde has named a squad, and will select a final line-up prior to kick-off.
Huddersfield (from): Stringwell, Murphy, Battye, Lancaster, Bell, Armitage, G Rhodes, Hanson, N Rhodes, Sharpe, Hoyle, Hinchliff, Thornton, Hinchliffe, Owen, Andrews, Whitfield, Meakin, Mitchell, Knight, Scrimshaw, Moon, Brooke.
