Hunslet RLFC coach Dean Muir

Yorkshire Evening Post

Hunslet RLFC coach Dean Muir discusses his side's Challenge Cup victory at Lock Lane, the prospect of facing Super League Huddersfield Giants in round three and how his squad is shaping up for the new season.

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00:00Dean, congratulations on the win, good way to start the season, your first competitive

00:06game, what did you make of it?

00:07Yeah, really good, I thought for the first 60 minutes we were really professional, I

00:11thought we looked fast, we looked sharp, we showed some good skills, some boys that had

00:15not played for a long time got through some good minutes and we did some really good stuff

00:19so I was quite happy with that.

00:20Maybe lost a little bit of concentration towards the end but I suppose that's to be expected

00:24when you're that far in front.

00:25Yeah, we pulled away and then I think the whole game went a little bit flat, we just

00:29spoke about that there internally about making sure we maintain our standards no matter what

00:33and I thought we dropped off towards the back end and we all identified that and we know

00:37it's not good enough but that's something we can fix.

00:39First hit out, quite happy, pretty comfortable.

00:42And on to Hubsfield Giants at home now in the next round, I mean that's going to be

00:46a good sort of test for you obviously but nothing to lose, a chance to see what you

00:51can do against very good opposition.

00:52Yeah, similar to the Championship, everyone wrote us off, you're going to go there and

00:56Hubsfield will come to South Leeds and beat you but we're going to go about our business

00:59and we've got some internal goals that we need to achieve so we'll focus on ourselves

01:04and what we do and go represent the club and each individual will do their job and we'll

01:08go out there and we'll see what happens.

01:10You're happy with the squad you've put together and Greg Eden obviously is the latest and

01:14I think the final piece of the jigsaw, he's obviously a very good signing, played at the

01:18top level here and in Australia.

01:20You seem to have some good young kids in the squad but some experience as well.

01:25Yeah, really happy with the blend, we had four or five very experienced players, there's

01:29a couple of experienced players that didn't play today and they can come back into contention

01:33in the next few weeks.

01:34Adding Greg into that mix, he gives a lot, obviously you had Mackenzie Turner, Mackenzie

01:39Scurr out on the wings, both young lads and no boos in there on Longford Wakey, also a

01:43young lad but they've got loads of pace, they've got good skill and what was pleasing was Billy

01:47Jarrett got through the game again today coming back from injury and I thought he was excellent,

01:51he was turned up and his yardage carries and what he gives us defensively, I thought he

01:55was really smart.

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