Huddersfield Giants coach Liam Finn says his side were “rightly” booed off at half-time in their defeat to St Helens.
The Giants lost out 26-18 to the Saints at the Accu Stadium, but at the break they trailed 24-0 after an awful start to the game saw them leave too much work to be done in the second 40.
Adam Swift, Asher O’Donnell and Niall Evalds crossed for tries, in a second half that they actually won 18-2, but their shocking first half display meant that that wouldn’t be enough to take home the points.
Describing Huddersfield’s efforts post-match. interm boss and assistant coach Finn said: “[It was] a game of one and three-quarters.
“First 20 minutes, [we were] absolutely nowhere near. Miles off. Unacceptable on any level, never mind a Super League and professional level.
“Five errors in the first 10 minutes against any team, you get punished. We got punished, got what we deserved.
“Got booed off at half-time, and rightly so. People are paying money to watch that. Scandalous, really, from us.”
On those boos, Finn later added: “They were rightly deserved.
“People pay good money to come watch us and what they got shown in the first half wasn’t acceptable.
“We addressed that at half time and said plenty of things that were honest enough, nothing I haven’t said in here and probably a bit more.
“To be fair to the lads, we got a reaction in the second half and as I said to them after the game, the fundamentals of this game: catching the ball, running hard, tackling, hitting and staying on the man rather than ricocheting off and bouncing into another man and into another man, they’re the things that you teach your junior teams under 8s, under 9s, under 10s.
“Committing to that and doing it properly gets you a chance in any game and obviously we didn’t do that until 40 minutes plus and we were already 24 points down.”
