Match report: Giants 4 - Salford City Reds 24

May 18 2009 by Chris Roberts, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

The full-back then added the touchline conversion, and the Giants had been given the wake-up call.

And by the 15th minute it looked as if they had heeded the warning as they struck back.

A high Luke Robinson ‘bomb’ on the sixth tackle failed to be dealt with by the defence and Jamahl Lolesi was on hand to feed Robinson to squeeze in at the corner.

Leroy Cudjoe was unable to add the extras.

But, at that stage, the general feeling was that the fourth-placed Giants had weathered the storm and would soon be putting the second-bottom City Reds firmly in their place.

That couldn’t have been more wide of the mark!

Rather than kicking on, the Giants continued to make mistakes with monotonous regularity.

Having said that, however, who knows what might have happened had winger Mark Henry not tracked back heroically to deny Paul Whatuira following a stunning length-of-the-field move in the 22nd minute?

Had Whatuira just made it a further couple of metres, the Giants would have had the lead, and the final outcome could have been completely different.

Instead, the defence came up trumps, a minute later the home side were penalised inside Salford territory and within a few plays Darrell Goulding was finishing off in the corner for Wilshere to convert and make it 12-4.