WILL this Warrington Wolves team eventually come good?

Some fans have already decided ‘no’, but many remain on the fence.

There is good reason for that.

When there is week-to-week improvement supporters can see signs and feel encouraged.

And many did for a short while with wins against Widnes and Wigan getting the monkey off the back about the potential of the season’s start being as bad as last year’s six straight losses and a draw.

But with the error rate rising again, the penalties mounting up, the injuries and suspensions setting in and the squad looking thin, doubts and frustrations are increasing in those understandably still feeling fragile about 2017.

It is not helping that high-profile, big-money recruits Tyrone Roberts and Ben Murdoch-Masila are yet to live up to fans’ expectations.

Everyone agrees, what we’ve seen so far from The Wire is not good enough for this club.

Two wins from six games may well be an improvement on 2017 but it is well below the standard of a club that pushed for all the honours only a season earlier.

Issues have been identified, head coach Steve Price says they’re being addressed but the work behind the scenes is not yet showing in matches. That’s worrying!

Warrington are still seemingly a distance from chief executive Karl Fitzpatrick’s pre-season remark: “We will need a bit of time to click but when we do, Super League will struggle to live with us.”

There has been plenty of effort on show.

While defensively the improvements have been visible, despite being the most penalised team in the competition (62 against and 46 for in six matches), there’s been little to get excited about when The Wire have had the ball.

A kick across the field is by far the team’s most lethal weapon it seems.

Few, if any, have felt consistently entertained by what’s been served up so far.

An average of two tries per game is a miserly return in comparison to what supporters became accustomed to pre-2017 and demand of a wealthy club with big ambitions.

What has been produced so far was partly warned.

I’m not sure Price and his men were ever going to get patience though from a fan base fed up of having ‘It’s Always Your Year’ rammed down its throats.

No way was this team going to gel straight away, with seven players on World Cup duty late into a pre-season that featured a rewrite of the way The Wire would play this year.

Add to that the number missing a chunk of preparations through rehab from surgery and a marquee linchpin signing, Roberts, having little time on the training field due to a knee injury.

No other team’s preparation was as harsh but fans don’t want excuses they just want wins.

The opening schedule has been tough and some may think the run looks a little easier over the next five weeks.

Trouble now is that nobody’s fearing The Wire, opponents see two points up for grabs and will lift their game accordingly.

All at Warrington Wolves have a huge task ahead to stay in the top-eight frame, never mind the top four.