HEAD COACH RICK STONE’S MEN SEND THE WOLVES PACKING AND SET SIGHTS ON TOP EIGHT

final margin of their victory wasn’t even bigger then the final 44-4 scoreline.

The Giants were certainly good value for their 14-0 advantage at half-time. They looked hungrier and far more energetic than their visitors, who were clearly lacking in form and confidence.

The fact Huddersfield had not played on the Monday against St Helens because of Town’s Wembley play-off game and Warrington had played host to Salford that day definitely showed. Stone’s side were far more alert.

But they still needed to work hard to build up their interval lead.

It took them just five minutes to open their account when the ball was run on the last tackle for Danny Brough to feed Oli Roberts to crash over from close range.

Brough added the extras and Huddersfield had made the best possible start.

Both teams then struggled to get a stranglehold on the contest until the 25th minute when the home side grabbed their second try on the back of a brilliant Brough 40-20.

From that advanced position, the ball was eventually forced to the right for Kruise Leeming’s blindside pass to put Jermaine McGillvary over in the corner.

Then, nine minutes before the break, the lead was extended.

Ryan Hinchcliffe’s 30m break took him to just short of the posts on the first tackle, and the ball was immediately whipped to the left for Aaron Murphy to finish in the corner.

Good Giants defence was required to force Benjamin Julien to lose the ball over the tryline to prove the Wolves were far from finished.

But at the break, the mood in the home camp was certainly very positive.

The lead was extended almost immediately after the second period got under way, but Brough