Giants back in business!

Aug 12 2002 By Chris Roberts, The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

He added the conversion for good measure and at 16-0 the Giants had made their intentions clear.

Yet straight from the restart prop Heath Cruckshank knocked-on Thorman's pass close to his line and within two plays Jamie Bovill had crashed over from close range.

Dane Dorahy landed the conversion and six minutes later, repeated the act, after a period of slack Giants play.

This time Whetu Taewa took full advantage after Huddersfield's defence failed to defuse a Hull KR bomb on the sixth tackle.

Suddenly the gap was closed to 16-12 after 21 minutes, and the balance of power had shifted considerably.

But the final five minutes of the half were to prove crucial as the Robins made two critical errors which the Giants gratefully accepted.

First, Lynton Stott knocked-on in his own 25 and from the scrum, Thorman set up Paul Reilly to score.

Then, after winger Alasdair McLarron was forced out of play by Thorman's kick to the corner and Ben Cooper's pressure, Reilly grabbed a second from a scrum move after slipping out of Jummy Walker's woeful tackle.

In the space of five minutes the Giants had moved 16 points clear.

It was just the lift the home side required.