Huddersfield Giants have lost their way - Nathan Brown

Brown will leave the Giants at the end of the season

Huddersfield Giants have lost their way in recent weeks, head coach Nathan Brown has admitted.

Sunday's 36-20 defeat at Warrington was the Giants' fourth on the bounce and they have slipped from third to seventh in the table.

"We have lost our way a bit and lost the consistency we had at the start of the season," Brown told BBC Leeds.

"We have to rediscover our resolve in defence and the art of building pressure in attack."

The Giants' last four matches have seen them lose twice to Wigan in the league and twice to Warrington - once in the league and once in the Challenge Cup.

"We need to start earning the right to score points by improving in key areas and cutting out the basic errors," said Brown.

"The last three or four weeks have seen us lose our way and has been hard. You can maybe put up with one or maybe two poor weeks but three and four sees it become a bit embarrassing.

"We have to change it and change it soon, because if we don't it will be a very long second half to the season.

"If we do change and improve then we have a side good enough to give ourselves a good shot.

"We have to make the players aware of actually what pressure they put their teammates under when they don't do the basics right.

"If we'd come back and won this game I think it would have just been putting the wallpaper over the cracks.

"I'd have rather have lost than come back and won because then everyone would have thought what's gone on in the last few weeks was acceptable and it's simply not acceptable.

"Last week we took steps forward we didn't this week and it's very disappointing. I'd have rather lost this game playing well but that didn't even happen.

"We know we have the side to go all the way this season, but we need to improve if we are to do that."