NO SATISFACTION OUT OF NOT BEING DISGRACED FOR WOLVES (From Warrington Guardian)

NO SATISFACTION OUT OF NOT BEING DISGRACED FOR WOLVES

IT may have been Warrington Wolves's best result at Wigan for seven seasons but the players took little or no compensation from that.

Scrum half Lee Briers, who again played with a calf injury, revealed the team's disappointment.

He said: "We're not a team which takes defeat lightly. This is not like the last two years when we would have probably gone away from Wigan happy with a 24-10 result. This is a new team and this year we want to finish in the top five and we want to win every game we play."

Briers was outstanding in the second half at Central Park. His '40-20' kicking had Wigan on the back foot and he played a big part in both of Warrington's tries but he was not happy with his first half show.

He said: "The game plan never worked in the first half. The plan was to drain Wigan, because you can't afford to give the ball away to them. But my kicking was awful and we weren't keeping the ball long enough and the plan wasn't working.

"Darryl gave us a good talking to at half-time and I thought we all responded well. But if we had played in the first half like we did in the second half I think we would have come away with two points."

Briers has proved himself to be one of the best '40-20' kickers in the British game this year - it is a massive play for a side to be able to kick to win a scrum with the feed inside the opponents' 20m area.

The Wolves scrum half said: "I like the '40-20' rule. I have a lot of pressure from the older lads like Danny Farrar and Simon Gillies to help out the forwards by putting in the long kicks.

"Most of the time it is the luck of the bounce but I'm glad to see them going in at the moment."

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