OH, what a night!

Huddersfield Giants made a triumphant return to the Galpharm Stadium after a two-month absence to get there Super League campaign firmly back on track.

But there was obviously far more to the Giants’ night in the sun than this.

With coach Nathan Brown’s men producing an eight-try blitz to beat the Robins, Giants chairman Ken Davy couldn’t have chosen a better time to announce the club’s almost unbelievable season-ticket offers for 2012.

Incredible £50 deals for the whole of the Super League XVII campaign had the fans purring with delight when the proud Giants owner unveiled the details at half-time.

And his players then put the icing on the cake by rattling up a big top-flight win on the luscious new Galpharm turf to send the claret and gold faithful home in the most upbeat of moods.

There were times during the contest when it looked that things might not be going according to plan, with the stubborn Rovers putting up brave resistance throughout.

But in the end, the Giants romped away to a victory that was even sweeter given the make-up of the side on show.

A total of seven established front-line stars were ruled out in the build up to the game in Kevin Brown, David Fa’alogo, Shaun Lunt, Keith Mason, Luke O'Donnell, Jamie Simpson and Joe Wardle.

Then during the final run-through the day before, Dale Ferguson (back spasm) and Michael Lawrence (ankle) also bit the dust to leave the Giants down to the bare bones.

Yet that didn’t seem to matter at all.

While the senior players led by example, the Giants youngsters manfully rose to the occasion.

Jacob Fairbank marked his Super League debut with an assured performance in the loose-forward role, Kyle Wood put in another great stint off the bench and young prop Adam Walker took the ball up strongly during a rock-solid final 10-minute spell.

In fact, all four of the Giants substitutes proved their weight in gold, with Larne Patrick back to his explosive best and Andy Raleigh making the most of a rare recent appearance to stake a very serious claim for a more regular run-out.

Having said that, when the Giants travel to St Helens for their next game on Friday week, all 17 who faced Rovers could feel a little aggrieved if they don’t hold onto their spots.

That’s because every single Giants player contributed 100% to the cause.

Defensively, it was far from perfect, but on attack there were so many positives, with great approach work paving the way for four first-half scores and a further four after the interval.

After conceding an early try to Scott Taylor, converted by Michael Dobson, and then being forced to drop out in the 11th minute, the Giants began to settle to the task.

By the 16th minute they had drawn level when Luke Robinson kicked high to the corner on the sixth tackle for Leroy Cudjoe to out-jump his marker and touch down.

Scott Grix converted and added a second three minutes later.

That came after a Danny Brough ‘bomb’ had been fumbled by the Hull KR defence and from the subsequent scrum David Faiumu shot over from dummy half close to the line after a strong Danny Kirmond charge.