Giants v Wolves: Teams
Warrington new boy Brett Hodgson lines up against his former employers Huddersfield in the season-opener.
Last Updated: 11/02/11 4:32pm
Brett Hodgson gets an immediate chance to show his former team what they are missing when Warrington Wolves take on Huddersfield Giants in the first match of the engage Super League's opening weekend in Cardiff.
Goal-kicking full-back Hodgson spent two prolific seasons with the Giants but they refused to offer him a two-year contract extension, prompting his switch to the Wolves.
He will not be the only high-profile Australian recruit on show in a Warrington shirt at the Millennium Stadium as Joel Monaghan is also included in the squad.
Monaghan, who plays centre or wing and represented the Kangaroos at the 2008 World Cup, left Canberra Raiders in disgrace after a lewd photograph of a drunken incident at an end-of-season party surfaced on the internet.
Wolves coach Tony Smith has otherwise kept faith with the squad that made a successful defence of the Challenge Cup last season and finished third in the Super League table - before crashing out of the play-offs with losses away at St Helens and home to Huddersfield.
Smith could find no place for hooker Jon Clarke or winger Chris Riley in a full-strength 19-man squad.
The Giants, meanwhile, have enjoyed an encouraging pre-season with successive wins over Hull KR, Wakefield and St Helens.
Australian international Luke O'Donnell and back rower Jon Molloy are both in line for their competitive debuts after being named in coach Nathan Brown's 19-man squad.
Half-back or hooker Luke Robinson is Huddersfield's only injury absentee, while new signing Jamie Simpson must wait for his first taste of the English game after only arriving in the country earlier in the week.
Giants 19-man squad: Grix, Lawrence, Cudjoe, Gilmour, Hodgson, Brown, Brough, Crabtree, D. Griffin, O'Donnell, Fa'alogo, Faiumu, Lunt, Mason, Patrick, Horne, McGillvary, Carlile, Molloy
Wolves 19-man squad: L. Anderson, Atkins, Blythe, Bridge, Briers, Carvell, Cooper, Grix, Harrison, Higham, Hodgson, King, M. Monaghan, J. Monaghan, Morley, Myler, Solomona, Westwood, Wood