Liam Finn slams Huddersfield Giants' resilience after Leigh Leopards defeat
Liam Finn has criticised Huddersfield Giants' resilience following Thursday's 30-16 defeat at Leigh Leopards.
The Giants won Finn's first two games in interim charge but that proved to be a temporary form spike for the Super League strugglers.
Fresh from conceding 56 points at home to Leeds Rhinos, Huddersfield shipped six more tries against Leigh.
"There were some decent periods for us but we haven't got enough resilience when we're under pressure," said Finn, who took the reins on a temporary basis last month in the wake of Luke Robinson's sacking.
"We make errors in clusters and don't show enough steel defensively on our tryline. We don't control enough rucks or lock the ball up so we concede too many offloads.
"Resilience is an issue that you don't fix overnight. You have to keep pushing it and work together to build that over time. Clearly we're not building that fast enough."
Huddersfield fell 20-4 behind inside the opening half an hour at Leigh Sports Village and failed to recover.
Adam Swift, Taane Milne and Jacob Gagai all crossed for the Giants but they were well beaten.
A seventh defeat of the campaign leaves Huddersfield joint bottom with Toulouse Olympique after nine rounds.
"We have to keep working on the issues in training," added Finn. "Like I've just said to the team in there, there's no silver bullet.
"There are no troops coming back or numbers coming back in the next couple of weeks. We've got what we've got.
"We've got a few players back that we missed long term, which is nice, but we're still around the 18-19 fit players mark, like a lot of teams.
"There isn't room for wholesale changes so it's about what our attitude is like in training and chipping away at being better."
Leigh won just two of their opening seven games but back-to-back victories have left Adrian Lam's side in sight of the play-offs.
"Confidence has been down and we just needed to win," said Lam, whose side are bidding for a fourth consecutive top-six finish.
"It is two in a row now so that helps build confidence and that trust back in each other. It was definitely our best game this year in terms of shape and executing what we have trained."