Super League: Warrington Wolves 32-10 Huddersfield Giants - Thewlis scores treble

Josh Thewlis' hat-trick from full-back helped Wire to a big win

Josh Thewlis scored a hat-trick as Warrington outplayed Huddersfield with an impressive home performance in Super League against high-flying visitors.

Ian Watson's Giants were off-colour and slumped to back-to-back losses for the first time in 2022, with only Innes Senior and Luke Yates tries to cheer.

Thewlis scored his first two tries in the opening 40, along with a score from Toby King for Daryl Powell's side.

Wires' Connor Wrench, Thewlis and Ben Currie all crossed after the break.

Warrington's win was made all the more impressive by the makeshift nature of parts of the spine, with Peter Mata'utia pressed into service in the halves alongside Riley Dean.

With Thewlis deputising for Stefan Ratchford at full-back, only Daryl Clark remained from what would normally be Powell's first-choice base, but the stand-ins impressed.

Dean showed his passing range to tee up Thewlis and put the ball on a string with the boot for the same player and King.

Giants were hampered by ill-discipline, with playmaker Jack Cogger twice sin-binned, and their late industry for Yates' try was merely consolation.

Warrington head coach Daryl Powell:

"The effort and energy in the performance was great. There were some really good individual performances and it was a big step forward for us."

"I thought Thewlis was class. He's got a real eye and an instinct for the game. I was really pleased with Riley Dean too.

"Our pack was great - defensively they really got after Huddersfield - so that was pleasing. We got a good start and moved the ball to good areas. We played the game smartly around the sin-binnings.

"I just felt we had complete control of the game."

Huddersfield head coach Ian Watson:

"We were awful. We lacked energy and effort which is something I've not had to say before about our team this season. It was probably our worst performance this year.

Yellow cards are always disruptive but I thought we stayed in the game during those periods.

"It was the worst half of football we could have played. Warrington were picking us off on the right edge where Cogger was missing. The yellow cards are not the reason we lost.

"I was really confident of coming here and putting on a performance. We didn't start well enough defensively and I think Warrington completed something like 95%."

Warrington: Thewlis; Charnley, Wrench, King, Ashton; Mata'utia, Dean; Mulhern, Clark, Cooper, Currie, Holmes, Davis

Interchanges: Philbin, Bullock, Walker, Magoulias

Huddersfield: Lolohea; I. Senior, Leutele, Wardle, McGillvary; Russell, Cogger; Wilson, Levi, Hill, McQueen, Jones, Yates

Interchanges: Lawrence, Ashworth, Greenwood, Golding

Referee: R. Hicks.

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