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“Broughy produced two neat kicks for the first and second tries, and then at the end produced a couple of kicks from defence that helped calm things down, when we needed to settle again after Widnes had scored.

“He definitely showed his experience and his worth to the team.

“We are very comfortable with Danny and he is a very useful commodity for the Giants.”

And Stone is pleased to get back to winning ways with the Giants second victory of the campaign.

“We picked up two competition points, which is something we have failed to do in recent weeks,” he added.

“Home wins are tough enough to come by, so to get points away at a really tough team was good.

“It wasn’t easy and even at 20-0 up I felt that Widnes would not give up without a fight – and sure enough they came back with three tries, which we’ll have to look at.

“But the objective for us was to get a win and I felt the best part of what we did was the way we controlled the first half.

“In fact we perhaps should have had a few more points by half time, but overall our defence was stronger and we were more consistent across the pitch.

“We defended really well for 60 minutes and the intensity was there, which was important because Widnes are a talented side who can be a little bit unpredictable.

“They attack more offthe-cuff than other sides and they always having something up their sleeve to test you.”