CAN Nathan Brown end his four-year reign by bringing silverware to Huddersfield?

That’s the burning question as the Giants’ highly-popular head coach prepares for his final Super League campaign at the Galpharm helm before heading back home to Australia.

In his first season in 2009, he helped Huddersfield reach the Challenge Cup final at Wembley and 12 months later became the first Giants coach to take the club to within one game of the Super League Grand Final at Old Trafford.

Although Brown secured a fourth-place finish for his side in 2011, a heavy injury list took its toll and Huddersfield fell short in the play-offs.

It’s a scenario the former St George Dragons coach in the Australian NRL is desperate to avoid for a second time, with drastic steps having been taken to ensure there’s no lack of bodies at the business end of the season once again, hence the fact so many members of his squad underwent major surgery at the end of last year and will miss the start of Super League XVII.

Whether it’s an approach that pays off obviously won’t.be known until this autumn.

But Brown is confident it can prove a winning strategy and his end-of-season leaving party can also be a celebration of the Giants’ most successful ever season – which, as far as he’s concerned, means everything, with his departure of secondary importance.

In Brown’s eyes, whether it’s his final season or not, he wants to win Super League and the Challenge Cup!

“I have been asked if I’m more determined than ever to win something this year, because it would be the perfect way to end my time here,” said Brown.

“People may feel this gives me extra motivation to succeed, but that’s not the case.

“Whether it’s my first game or my last, I want to win. Always have done and always will do, so in that sense it makes no difference that it’s my final year.

“My desire to bring silverware to this club remains as strong now as it did on day one.

“Obviously, I’d love to return home knowing the Giants had won a major trophy while I’d been head coach, and I know that’s got to happen this year.

“That’s what we’re all focusing on as a club, and the fact this is my final season isn’t part of our thinking.

“It’s just the winning that matters, and that’s something this group is capable of achieving.”

Brown is well aware the Giants face a massive early challenge, with so many senior players ruled out for the start of the season.

For the opening game of the Super League XVII campaign, Kevin Brown (ankle), David Fa’alogo (back), David Faiumu (shoulder), Keith Mason (groin), Luke O’Donnell (knee), Larne Patrick (wrist) and Tony Tonks (suspended) are all sidelined.

But Brown still feels he has the squad capable of mounting a serious top-flight challenge.

“As the weeks progress, we’ll slowly start to get blokes back and then we’ll get stronger and stronger,” he added. “To be fair, even without those who are missing, we’ve still got a reasonably formidable squad at our disposal, which underlines the depth of the squad we’ve now got here.