After such an outstanding Magic Weekend triumph over St Helens, how is the mood ahead of Sunday’s trip to Widnes Vikings?

It’s obviously positive.

But as I’ve said all season, everyone within the club has always managed to stay positive, even when things were so tough at the start of the year.

And when we were able to field our strongest side of the season – which was the case against Saints on Sunday – everyone saw the results. We showed what a difficult team we are to play against when we put things right.

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Our young blokes who were forced to step up at the start of the season did a fantastic job for us, and in terms of their development it will prove invaluable, but we’re obviously delighted to be able to be calling on more of our senior players once again. They make a huge difference.

So the key now is definitely to keep on building.

That’s something we’ve been doing over the past month or so, to be fair.

During that time, we’ve beaten Warrington, had a League and Cup win over Leeds, were unlucky to lose at Wigan and were unlucky to lose at Catalans by two points just over a week ago.

Now we’ve backed it up and secured a very good win over a Saints side who were just two points off top spot ahead of the Magic Weekend fixtures.

But while I don’t want to take anything away from our achievements on the day, there were still areas that need to be improved.

I want to see those improvements being made at Widnes this weekend.

As well as an improvement in performance, it looked as if the breaks finally started to go your way. Would that be fair to say?

There were one or two things that went for us, but having been on the receiving end of a fair number earlier in the year we certainly won’t be complaining.

There was the forward pass in the build-up to Jermaine McGillvary’s second try at the start of the second half, and then there was Jake Connor’s improvisation for Aaron Murphy’s try later in the half, when he kicked up Danny Brough’s pass, gathered the ball and fed Murph to touch down.

Huddersfield Giants' Jermain McGillvary scores his sides fourth try First Utility Super League XXI St Helens v Huddersfield Magic Weekend 22/05/16 (Pic by John Rushworth)

I’ve subsequently been asked if that was a training-ground move.

Well, if it was, it hadn’t come off until Sunday afternoon!

But they say you make your own luck, and we’re certainly working hard enough to earn some.

And was Ryan Hinchliffe scoring his first Giants’ try another highlight?

We were delighted for him, particularly as he’s been held up more times than I’d care to remember this season.

But there’s no doubt it was a try he’s thoroughly deserved.

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Hinchy has been excellent for us, both on and off the field, and his influence on the side is massive.

And I also like the way him and Kyle Wood are working together as our hookers.

Huddersfield Giants' Ryan Hinchcliffe (kneeling) celebrates scoring his sides eighth try First Utility Super League XXI St Helens v Huddersfield Magic Weekend 22/05/16 (Pic by John Rushworth)

Hinchy is very solid and provides us with a strong opening platform, and then Woody comes on and speeds the game up for us, just as Kruise Leeming does when he’s in our side.

So, as well as being delighted for Hinchy, I was also delighted to see Woody score.

I have to tip my hat off to him. After a real tough time on the injury front, Woody has eased himself back into action over the past month and is now having a very positive influence on the team, and the more times Woody and Hinchy operate together, the better the Giants will be.

But were their efforts eclipsed by those of Sebastine Ikahihifo on his debut?

It wasn’t a bad start, was it?

He definitely packs a punch, and his impact off the bench was just what we needed.

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And the positive thing is that he’s only going to get better, because his first week with us was far from ideal.

He received his visa on the Friday, was on a plane on the Saturday, had to be picked up from the airport by a stranger on Sunday – because we were all travelling back from Catalans – and dumped in a hotel that night before I picked him up on Monday morning, sorted a few things out for him, dropped him off at his house and told him to get ready for training the following day.

On top of that, he arrived on his own, as his family are still waiting to receive their visas.

Huddersfield Giants' Sebastine Ikahihifo in action First Utility Super League XXI St Helens v Huddersfield Magic Weekend 22/05/16 (Pic by John Rushworth)

But he turned up at training on the Tuesday with a smile on his face, got straight down to business and obviously made a massive first impression against St Helens.

As yet, we haven’t worked out what role will be best for him.

The key at the moment is to spend more time around his new teammates and get to know what’s required of a Huddersfield Giants player.

His fitness isn’t too bad, because he’d been playing big minutes for St George reserves in the New South Wales Cup, which is pretty similar to the ever-improving Championship over here, but it’s a case of him building on such an encouraging start.

To be honest, he was a player we’d looked at trying to bring here for the start of the season, but when he left New Zealand Warriors he was wanting to stay in the Australian NRL at that stage.

But because things weren’t working out the way he’d planned, we were able to make our move, and you can already see why we were so keen to sign him.