St Helens head coach Paul Rowley:
“I’m happy to get two points but clearly it was a tough watch at times. We gave Huddersfield more than ample opportunity to hurt us.
“I always try and find the positives whilst remaining honest in the assessment as well so that will go on behind closed doors but it’s important that obviously I don’t just pretend that it was a very polished performance.
“Some things would fit into the excuse category, some into the reasons category but overall, our simple skills let us down on more than one occasions, our inability to look out and play the play that’s on rather than play within ourselves a bit at times probably left about five or six tries out there.”
Huddersfield Giants boss Jim Lenihan:
“The end result is a bit different but I thought we actually took another step forward today on where we’re going, I thought. We took on a very good side, a good pack.
“A couple of tries we let in a couple of easy ones early, a short side on Sironen and a bit of brilliance from Sailor got two for them.
“I felt like we competed and scrambled hard, we challenged ourselves, we worked hard to be in the contest against Saints and then I felt the longer the first half went on and even the second half, we created a lot of fatigue in them and put them under some pressure.”
[On Lewis Jagger] “I’m not 100 per cent sure with Jags. I think he came off for a HIA but there was some sort of concern that it might have been a little bit of heat as well.
“I think he’s been cleared of his HIA but I’ll find out more about that afterwards.”
St Helens: Welsby; Dagnall, Robertson, Percival, Macdonald; Sailor, Hastings; Walmsley, Clark, Klemmer, Sironen, Wright, Shorrocks.
Interchanges: Delaney, Davies, Humphreys, Suluka-Fifita.
Huddersfield: Flanagan; Kershaw, Jagger, Gagai, Milne; Lolohea, Russell; Rogers, Woolford, Patolo, O’Donnell, Dunford, Powell.
Interchanges: Burgess, English, Cozza, Geyer.
Referee: James Vella.
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