Wolves a constant thorn in Giants’ side

WITHOUT a set date for a future return of rugby league, we’ve decided to look back at the peak of Huddersfield Giants’ recent past.

Of course, we’re talking about the 2013 season when the League Leader’s Shield came to town and Giants were on top of the world – well, England at least.

You could look back at this season with a tinge of sadness that Giants, for all their promise and success, didn’t lift the Super League Trophy.

However, for most, it was a year of joy and a year in which Giants were the team to be feared, both home and away, except by one club.

Huddersfield lost just two home games all season and only one side completed the double over them, Warrington Wolves.

As you will discover, throughout Huddersfield’s journey during Super League XVIII, Warrington became a constant thorn in their side, a thorn which would eventually cost them everything.

Huddersfield’s season, much like it is right now, started with four victories in their first five games, with defeat to Bradford Bulls their only blight on a thus perfect record.

However, defeats to Warrington and Salford in rounds eight and nine put a dampener on the mood at Huddersfield, especially considering Warrington kept Giants scoreless, bar a Danny Brough penalty, the only time in the whole of 2013 they failed to register a single try in a Super League game.

Following this blip, Giants won seven of their next eight games to ascend to the upper echelons of the table and I would say who the side to beat Giants were, but I think you already know this.

After round 17’s win over St Helens, Giants would taste defeat just twice more in Super League until the end of the season, including against Bradford Bulls in a dead rubber;