2014 Huddersfield Giants season

This article details the Huddersfield Giants rugby league football club's 2014 season. This is the 19th season of the Super League era and the Huddersfield Giants 12th since promotion back to the top flight in 2003. The Huddersfield Giants came into the season as defending League Leaders' Shield winners, finishing top of the Super League the previous year – their first 1st-place finish in 81 years. Huddersfield Giants hoped to have a play-off place for the sixth consecutive season and a first Super League Grand Final appearance.

Results

Pre-season friendlies

W Win D Draw L Loss

Pre-season results

Date	Versus	H/A	Venue	Result	Score	Tries	Goals	Attendance	Report
11 January	Hull Kingston Rovers	H	John Smith's Stadium	W	20–18	Cudjoe (2), McGillvary, Grix	–	1,300	Hull KR

Super League

League table

Super League XIX

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	St Helens (L, C)	27	19	0	8	796	563	+233	38	Play-offs
2	Wigan Warriors	27	18	1	8	834	429	+405	37
3	Huddersfield Giants	27	17	3	7	785	626	+159	37
4	Castleford Tigers	27	17	2	8	814	583	+231	36
5	Warrington Wolves	27	17	1	9	793	515	+278	35
6	Leeds Rhinos	27	15	2	10	685	421	+264	32
7	Catalans Dragons	27	14	1	12	733	667	+66	29
8	Widnes Vikings	27	13	1	13	611	725	−114	27
9	Hull Kingston Rovers	27	10	3	14	627	665	−38	23
10	Salford Red Devils	27	11	1	15	608	695	−87	23
11	Hull F.C.	27	10	2	15	653	586	+67	22
12	Wakefield Trinity Wildcats	27	10	1	16	557	750	−193	21
13	Bradford Bulls (R)	27	8	0	19	512	984	−472	10[a]	Relegation to Championship
14	London Broncos (R)	27	1	0	26	438	1237	−799	2

Super League results

W Win D Draw L Loss

Super League results

Date	Round	Versus	H/A	Venue	Result	Score	Tries	Goals	Attendance	Report
2 February	1	Wigan Warriors	A	DW Stadium	W	24–8	McGillvary (3), Ferres, Grix	Brough 1/4	16,240	BBC
23 February	2	Hull Kingston Rovers	H	John Smith's Stadium	D	24–24'	Brough, Robinson (2), Wood	Brough 4/4	7,180	BBC
28 February	3	Widnes Vikings	A	Halton Stadium	L	20–22	McGillvary, Cudjoe, Crabtree	Brough 4/5	5,577	SL
7 March	4	Leeds Rhinos	H	John Smith's Stadium	D	12–12	Broughton, Wardle	Brough 2/4	8,759	SL
16 March	5	Bradford Bulls	A	Odsal Stadium	W	66–18	Grix (2), Wardle (2), Lawrence, Robinson, Chan, Ta'ai (2), McGillvary (2), Ferres	Brough 9/12	6,781	SL
22 March	6	Catalans Dragons	A	Stade Gilbert Brutus	L	14–30	Grix, Ferres, Broughton	Brough 1/3	6,600	SL
30 March	7	Warrington Wolves	H	John Smith's Stadium	L	14–33	Grix, Broughton	Brough 3/3	7,068	SL
10 April	8	Hull F.C.	A	KC Stadium	L	6–30	Broughton	Brough 1/1	9,515	SL
18 April	9	Salford Red Devils	A	AJ Bell Stadium	W	42–22	Lunt, Murphy (3), Brough, McGillvary, Bailey	Brough 7/7	5,068	SL
21 April	10	Wakefield Trinity Wildcats	H	John Smith's Stadium	W	36–16	Broughton, Lawrence, Ta'ai, Cudjoe, Chan, Lunt	Brough 6/6	5,487	SL
4 May	11	Castleford Tigers	H	John Smith's Stadium	W	29–28	Wardle, Cudjoe, McGillvary, Grix, Murphy	Brough 4/5, Brough 1 DG	7,195	SL
10 May	12	London Broncos	A	The Hive	W	30–16	Lunt, Ta'ai (2), Mullally, Cudjoe	Brough 5/5	1,035	SL
18 May	13	Bradford Bulls	N	Etihad Stadium	W	54–16	Wardle, Lunt, Robinson, Broughton, Brough, Grix, Ta'ai, Mullally, Patrick	Brough 9/9		SL
23 May	14	St. Helens	A	Langtree Park	L	22–41	Patrick, Blackmore (2), Ferres	Brough 3/4	10,218	SL
29 May	15	Wigan Warriors	H	John Smith's Stadium	W	31–22	Murphy, Lunt, Wardle (2), McGillvary	Brough 5/5, Brough 1 DG	6,106	SL
12 June	16	Leeds Rhinos	A	Headingley Stadium	W	24–22				RLP
21 June	17	London Broncos	H	John Smith's Stadium	W	38–22				RLP
26 June	18	Hull Kingston Rovers	A	KC Stadium	W	26–22				RLP
5 July	19	Salford Red Devils	H	John Smith's Stadium	L	10–36				RLP
11 July	20	Castleford Tigers	A	Mend-A-Hose Jungle	L	30–44				RLP
20 July	21	Bradford Bulls	H	John Smith's Stadium	W	52–26				RLP
27 July	22	Catalans Dragons	H	John Smith's Stadium	W	38–16				RLP
3 August	23	Wakefield Trinity Wildcats	A	Rapid Solicitors Stadium	W	36–18				RLP
17 August	24	Widnes Vikings	H	John Smith's Stadium	W	28–14				RLP
28 August	25	Warrington Wolves	A	Halliwell Jones Stadium	D	24–24				RLP
7 September	26	Hull F.C.	H	John Smith's Stadium	W	38–28				RLP
12 September	27	St Helens	H	John Smith's Stadium	W	17–16				RLP

Play-offs

Play-off results

Date	Round	Versus	H/A	Venue	Result	Score	Tries	Goals	Attendance	Report
18 September	Qualifying play-offs	Wigan Warriors	A	DW Stadium	L	4-57				RLP
26 September	Preliminary semi-final	Catalans Dragons	H	John Smith's Stadium	L	16-18				RLP

Challenge Cup

W Win L Loss

Challenge Cup results

Date	Round	Versus	H/A	Venue	Result	Score	Tries	Goals	Attendance	Report
6 April	4	St. Helens	H	John Smith's Stadium	L	16–17	Lunt (2), Wardle	Brough 2/3	7,150	Report

Players

Squad

* Announced on 14 November 2013:

Transfers

Ins

Outs

References

External links

• Huddersfield on Sky Sports
• Huddersfield on Super League Site
• BBC Sport-Rugby League

This page was last edited on 4 March 2024, at 21:23