Huddersfield Giants secured their first Betfred Super League victory of the season with a comfortable 20-6 success against Warrington Wolves.
Warrington winger Tom Lineham collected a perfectly-weighted kick from Stefan Ratchford to put the visitors into a fifth-minute lead.
However, Huddersfield hit back with two tries in a five-minute spell through Dale Ferguson and Darnell McIntosh to move 12-4 ahead after 18 minutes.
#SLHudWar@Giantsrl ON FORM tonight as they hand @wolvesrl their second defeat of the year pic.twitter.com/OAhsm8BFIY
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Jake Mamo thought he had put the Giants further ahead when he crossed the whitewash, only for referee Ben Thaler to chalk it off for obstruction before Danny Brough and Wolves centre Bryson Goodwin traded penalties before the break.
The third quarter of the match remained scoreless as Warrington pushed to get back into the match but Huddersfield continued to hold firm in the wet conditions before Jordan Turner pounced on Matty Russell's mistake to move 20-6 ahead with 17 minutes remaining.
Defeat leaves Steve Price winless in his opening two matches in charge of the Wolves and he will search for his first victory when his side travel to Widnes Vikings next Friday.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">1ï¸âƒ£ Home Game<br>1ï¸âƒ£ Win ✅ <a href="https://t.co/4QznvAfJ52">pic.twitter.com/4QznvAfJ52</a></p>— Huddersfield Giants (@Giantsrl) <a href="https://twitter.com/Giantsrl/status/961725728592146433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
"It’s not the standard that we accept as a footy club," Price said.
"We were very confident leading into the game, we got off to a reasonable start and to come out with a display like that is very disappointing.
"With the conditions and Danny Brough’s kicking game, I thought he was the difference in controlling the game, I thought he kicked outstanding but we didn’t combat that too well."
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Buzzing to be back out there with the lads. Always good to get a home win for the fans 👊ðŸ¼</p>— Dale Ferguson (@fergiefergz12) <a href="https://twitter.com/fergiefergz12/status/961725352748945408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Huddersfield head coach Rick Stone said: "We have had a good response considering how we went in the second half last week (at Hull FC).
"I thought our effort was great. Seventeen players had a real crack and competed for the whole game. That was the most pleasing part.
"It was good to see everyone stand up. The pleasing part from us in the second half, compared to last week, is we came back and tried to repeat what we did in the first half and we got through."
