LEAGUE Leaders Shield holders Warrington will be hoping to add another Carnegie Challenge Cup to their cabinet.

In 2011, the Wolves ran away with the crown by beating Leeds 30-6 and the previous year saw them break Huddersfield’s hearts, beating them 25-16.

They were coach Tony Smith’s first two seasons in charge, and since then, they seem to have gone from strength to strength, and in this campaign they look to be contenders on all fronts once more.

Their playing roster is one of the best that Super League has to offer and there does not seem to be a weak position within their team that the Giants could exploit.

Particularly dangerous players they boast include international threequarter pairing Ryan Atkins and Joel Monaghan, who are two of the most deadly finishers in the competition.

In the forwards there is the same depth of quality, chief among which are England trio Adrian Morley, Garreth Carvell and Ben Westwood, who all provide sufficient grunt to trouble any team.

On Monday night they grinded out a 15-6 victory over fellow high-flyers Catalans at the Halliwell Jones stadium, with those shining lights mentioned currently in fine form going into this all or nothing encounter.

And they will believe that the current form they find themselves in, along with Huddersfield’s slump, will cumulate in Warrington getting to their third Cup final in four years.

MICHAEL Monaghan is just one of the men that Huddersfield will need to be aware of this Sunday.

The former Manly Sea Eagles scrum half has been a revelation since he switched to hooker, and has been one of the competitions top no. 9’s in recent years.

Monaghan will also be itching to play after a long lay-off only saw him return in their win over Catalans on Monday.

With that game now behind him, he will sure prove a difficult threat that the Giants have to distinguish if they are to have any chance of making the journey down to Wembley in August.

AUSTRALIAN Tony Smith knows exactly what it takes to beat Nathan Brown’s Huddersfield in the Carnegie Challenge Cup.

In 2009, it was the Wolves that ended Nathan Brown’s dreams of a near perfect opening season at the club, by defeating his Giants in the 2009 final.

And this time, former Huddersfield coach Smith will want to end his former team mate Brown’s swansong season at the club at an even earlier stage of the competition, before they lock horns again in 2013, as Brown takes the reigns at St Helens.