The brace from 34-year-old Charnley in 11 second-half minutes knocked the stuffing out of the Giants, who saw a 10-point deficit doubled with 11 minutes left.<\/p>\n
Jacob Gagai grabbed Huddersfield’s third try just before the hooter, finishing a burst from halfway down the left flank, but in truth they were never close enough on the scoreboard to trouble their hosts.<\/p>\n
This has been a puzzling season for Leigh, who started it by beating Leeds Rhinos on the opening weekend but then won only one of their next six, a Golden Point win over Toulouse at the end of March.<\/p>\n
That narrow win seems to have ignited belief within the dressing room with the Leopards having won three of their last four to make some upward progress.<\/p>\n
Victory never looked in much doubt from the moment Towse went over on the left flank.<\/p>\n
Huddersfield might point to a host of marginal calls which went against them, including a possible knock-on in the build up to that first try.<\/p>\n
But while Adam Swift levelled matters with his first try of the Super League campaign, Leigh responded immediately as Senior and Lam extended the lead to 16-4.<\/p>\n
Giants had a try from Asher O’Donnell ruled out for obstruction but Taane Milne did barrel over to make it 20-10 at the break.<\/p>\n
The second half proved to be all about Charnley, exactly 16 years to the day in 2010 when he made a first senior appearance for Blackpool Panthers on loan from Wigan. <\/p>\n
His first try was a brilliant one-handed finish tight against the right touchline which showcased all his skill, while his second proved he remains a formidable force on the hoof with a muscular charge driving through Niall Evalds’ defences.<\/p>\n
The veteran winger came within inches of marking his milestone with a hat-trick, only to narrowly fail to gather a pass with the line beckoning.<\/p>\n
But his two tries still moved him closer to Leeds Rhinos veteran Hall, who has four in seven appearances this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The brace from 34-year-old Charnley in 11 second-half minutes knocked the stuffing out of the Giants, who saw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-547218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}