For the Giants will host rivals Bradford at the Galpharm Stadium on February 5 after the 2010 fixtures were revealed today.

Australian Orford has been drafted in by Bulls coach Steve McNamara to replace Paul Deacon, who has joined home-town club Wigan Warriors, and Brown knows his fellow countryman can be a big hit with Odsal supporters.

The Giants follow up Bradford's visit, with consecutive trips along the M62 east to Hull. They play Hull FC at the KC Stadium on February 12, before returning nine days later to face Hull Kingston Rovers.

Huddersfield finish the opening month by playing host to Tony Smith's Warrington Wolves – a replay of the Carnegie Challenge Cup final in August, as Brown will be out for a slice of revenge after defeat at Wembley.

"It's a pretty tough start, last year was the first year in a long time Bradford haven't been involved in the finals," said Brown.

"They showed some form towards the back end of the year when they had their players fit and they missed out by one point.

"Their recruitment this year has been really good, particularly with the Australian players they have brought in.

"Matt Orford is a good player, half-backs are hard to find and with Sam Burgess leaving that's obviously given them a bit of spending power. Orford will definitely improve their team; there is no doubt about that."

Champions Leeds Rhinos will begin their defence of the Super League title in unfamiliar surroundings with a match against Crusaders at The Racecourse Ground in Wrexham on Friday, January 29.

Leeds, who completed an unprecedented hat-trick of titles with their 18-10 Grand Final victory over St Helens last month, face Brian Noble's rebranded Crusaders in one of two fixtures played a week before the first full round of engage Super League XV.

The match is a Round 4 fixture which has been rearranged because of the Rhinos' involvement in the World Club Challenge against Melbourne Storm at Elland Road, Leeds, on Sunday, February 28.

Melbourne, the NRL champions, will warm up for the world club title decider with a match against Harlequins RL, whose Round 3 home match against Wakefield Trinity Wildcats will be played on Saturday, January 30.

Next season starts a week earlier because of England's involvement in the 2010 Gillette Four Nations, which will be played in the southern hemisphere in October and November.

Next year's Challenge Cup final is on August 28, a date already pencilled in Brown's diary as he looks to build on last year's success at Huddersfield after taking the Giants to Wembley and a top-four finish in Super League.

Not that Brown is too worried about how the fixtures have come out for Huddersfield.

"It's a tough start for us but you have to play everyone at some stage and it's irrelevant whether you play teams at the start, the middle, or the end of the year," he said.

"The key for us is to build on last year, which was obviously a successful year for the club. If we can do what we do well and make some improvements, we showed last year that it doesn't matter who we play, we can compete.

"Being home or away doesn't mean too much to me, I think it gets talked about a little too much.

"At the end of the day, you have a field and a ball, and as long as we keep working hard at what we do and get some improvements from last year, then where we play the sides should be irrelevant."

Murrayfield hosts the Magic Weekend next year for the second consecutive season.

The draw for the seven matches in Edinburgh over the weekend of May 1 and 2 will be made live on Sky Sports News today at 1.30pm.

All seven matches in the Scottish capital will be broadcast live by Sky Sports, who will once again screen live matches every Friday and Saturday throughout the Super League season.

The Sky cameras will have covered all 14 clubs by Round 5 next season and will have covered the action at every club for at least two home games by Round 14.

Other highlights for 2010 include the Round 13 encounter between St Helens and Leeds at Knowsley Road on Friday, April 23, the first time the two sides will have met since this year's Grand Final.

Noble, the former Wigan Warriors coach, returns to his old club for the first time since his appointment as head coach of Crusaders on Friday,
February 5.

His successor, Michael Maguire, has already ruled out any more new signings after being officially unveiled as the coach of Wigan yesterday.

That means former Great Britain scrum-half Deacon, recruited as a player-coach, is likely to be the only addition to the playing staff ahead of Super League XV.

Maguire said: "As you see it now is the way it is. It is a very young playing group and a very exciting group."

A bumper round of derbies takes place over the Good Friday Bank Holiday weekend, starting with Leeds versus Bradford on Thursday, April 1. The following day sees the Hull derby between Hull FC and Hull Kingston Rovers at Craven Park, St Helens versus Wigan and Wakefield versus Castleford Tigers.

Crusaders will play home matches at Rodney Parade in Newport and the Racecourse Ground, Wrexham, in 2010 and are still in negotiations with the owners of both stadiums.

The Super League play-offs begin on the weekend of September 11 and 12 and climax with the Grand Final at Old Trafford on Saturday, October 2.