Huddersfield Giants made sure they got their Super League XX firmly back on track with an emphatic victory over Catalans Dragons.

After the attacking frailties that were on show in their narrow defeats to Salford, Hull KR and St Helens, coach Paul Anderson’s men had little trouble putting that right with a seven-try success over the out-played French.

They dominated from start to finish and could count themselves a little unlucky not to have recorded their triumph by a far wider margin.

By half-time the Giants had built up a commanding and thoroughly-deserved 22-8 lead.

Apart from the Catalans’ 20th-minute try, which was scored and converted by Scott Dureau after some great individual work from Elliott Whitehead and one Dureau penalty to give them a two-point lead after 23 minutes, it was all Huddersfield.

By the time the hosts had opened their account after 14 minutes, there were already signs they were up for the challenge, with the likes of the strong-running Eorl Crabtree, Luke Robinson and Kyle Wood all halted on the line.

Those efforts to keep the Giants at bay did, however, help soften up the Dragons, who were unable to prevent Scott Grix and Jake Connor combining to send Aaron Murphy over for the opener. Brough added the first of his three first-half conversions.

But it was the captain’s boot in open play which proved the most significant strike weapon, helping to set up his side’s other opening-period scores.

Brough’s grubber-kick on the half hour brought try number two as Michael Oldfield failed to collect cleanly and Ukuma Ta’ai took full advantage to power over.

At 22-8 it was looking good

Then seven minutes later, Brough went to the air and Connor rose superbly to collect under heavy pressure and feed Murphy for his second.

And on the stroke of half-time and following a Brough break from deep, the in-form stand-off hoisted the ball to the opposite flank for the lively Leroy Cudjoe to gather and score.

At 22-8 it was looking good.

Jamie Ellis almost collected a ball to score within a minute of the restart to extend the Giants’ lead.

But instead it was the Dragons who struck first as Julian Bousquet powered over under the posts on the back of another soft Huddersfield penalty having been conceded at the start of the set.

Although Brough kicked the restart out on the field, the Giants soon regained their composure and responded with four points of their own 12 minutes later when the ball was kept alive on the sixth tackle and the hard-working Jermaine McGillvary squeeze in at the corner.

To make matters worst for the visitors, they were reduced to 12 men midway through the half when Willie Tonga was sin-binned for a head butt on Cudjoe and moments later Craig Huby fed Ta’ai to fall over the line for his second try and Brough converted to make it 32-14.

It took just two minutes for the Giants to extend their lead when Cudjoe strolled through the gap vacated by Tonga and fed the supporting Scott Grix to race in at the corner for Brough to land another excellent conversion.

That might have been the final score, but after the blank Easter programme no-one was complaining.