New Zealand Test star David Solomona repaid a chunk of his £90,000 transfer fee by orchestrating a tense opening Super League win for Bradford.

The 29-year-old, a close-season capture from Wakefield, was played out of position at stand-off following Iestyn Harris' late withdrawal with flu but still demonstrated his wonderful ball-handling skills.

Fellow newcomer Glenn Morrison also scored his first try for the Bulls to deny brave Huddersfield a first Super League win over Bradford.

The Giants, returning to the scene of last July's Challenge Cup semi-final triumph over Leeds, led 14-12 until Morrison grabbed the all-important score 10 minutes from the end of a match littered with penalties.

Huddersfield, who pushed St Helens in their opening fixture, caused plenty of problems for the 2005 champions through their giant-sized forwards, a strength not so long ago associated with the Bulls.

They took a 10th-minute lead when centre Jamahl Lolesi won the race to Chris Thorman's kick to register his first try in Super League but Bradford hit back with a copybook score, Shontayne Hape following up Paul Deacon's grubber.

The score remained at 6-6 until four minutes before the break when Solomona tore through the Giants' defence for his solo try, to which Deacon added his second conversion.

Thorman's penalty on the stroke of half-time cut Bradford's lead to four points and they regained the lead six minutes into the second half when second rower Stuart Jones won the race to Brad Drew's kick to the posts.

Bradford were down to 12 men at the time with debutant full-back Michael Platt in the sin-bin for an obstruction on former Bradford favourite Robbie Paul, an act that began to look costly.

Huddersfield were good value for their lead but a run of seven successive penalties enabled Bradford to switch the momentum and their pressure finally told when Morrison went through a gap in the visitors' defence.

The game was held up for five minutes to enabled Bradford's promising forward Sam Burgess to receive treatment before being carried off on a stretcher.