York head coach Mark Applegarth told BBC Radio York:
“Congratulations to Huddersfield – they’ve been in a lot of close games of late and they were due to get one over the line. Unfortunately for us, we’ve given them that opportunity.
“We’re very inconsistent at the moment – it feels like we make three steps forward and then a couple back. We’ve got to keep on chasing that consistency in our performances, first and foremost.
“I definitely don’t want to take anything away from Huddersfield, they deserved the victory.
“It’s frustrating when you’re coaching and we’re making some simple errors. It’s nothing like rocket science that we’ve got to fix, but we have got to fix it up if we want to compete regularly at this level.”
Huddersfield head coach Jim Lenihan told BBC Radio Leeds:
“It’s a little bit more [a feeling of] relief and I’m happy for the players more than anything else.
“We’ve been working really hard at trying to better ourselves. We’re changing the way we think about ourselves, we’re changing the way we’ve defended, we’ve changed the way we’ve attacked.
“This win has probably been a long time coming, in the fact that we’ve put ourselves in games and some inconsistency at different times has undone it.
“We always said it was never going to be that we would lose by a lot and then suddenly start winning by a lot. We were going to have to tough our way out and defend our way out at the back end of a game and it was good that happened.”
York: Mata’afa; Bennison, Galeano, Williams, Nofoaluma; Hunter, McShane; Thompson, Inman, Va’a, Wood, Field, Hingano.
Interchanges: Balmforth, Vaughan, Martin, Foster.
Huddersfield: Evalds; Flanagan, Wrench, Gagai, Jagger; Rush, Lolohea; Patolo, Woolford, Rogers, Hewitt, Dunford, Rushton.
Interchanges: King, Greenwood, Cozza, Geyer.
Referee: Tara Jones
