WOLVES cannot afford to ‘sulk’ about their recent form and must work hard to give the Warrington faithful the performances they deserve, says skipper Joel Monaghan.

A 22-14 defeat to Castleford Tigers on Monday was Wolves’ fourth successive loss, their worst run during Monaghan’s career at the club.

But the winger insists his side will be working hard to bounce back with a win against Wakefield Trinity Wildcats on Saturday.

“Four on the trot’s never good,” said the Australian. “I’ve had it before at other teams, but never with a team of the quality we’ve got.

“It’s disappointing. We know we’re off, we’re working hard to go out and fix it and it’s not happening for us so we’re going to go and work harder.

“The crowd here, and the town, deserve better from us and hopefully we can start giving it to them. We can sulk about it or we can try and work harder and get out of it.

“That’s what we’re going to do, that’s what we’re paid to do and that’s what we want to do. We’re going to get in and work hard this week and come up with something to beat ‘Wakey’ on Saturday.”

Monaghan, in his debut season as captain after taking the armband from brother Michael, admits he and his teammates must expect to cop some flak after their losing run.

“It’s tough,” he added. “I think we had only lost two or three on the trot in the rest of my time here and to lose four is disappointing.

“You take a bit more onus on being captain and we can’t get out of it individually, we’ve got to work as a team.

“It shows at the moment we’re not gelling and the only way to get out of it is to stick together and come together.

“We’re going to cop some flak and we thoroughly deserve it. We’ll take it on board and try and get better.”

Confidence is low in the Wolves camp, but the 32-year-old hopes a win at The Halliwell Jones Stadium on Saturday can start to rebuild it.

“Confidence is a big thing, especially in this sport, and at the moment we haven’t got any," explained the former international, who was Super League's top try scorer in 2014 with 28 and has so far crossed twice in six games this campaign.

“We’ve got to work hard to try and get some back, that starts this weekend. We can sulk about it or make Saturday the most important game of the season.

“I think it is the most important game for us of the year. We’re at home again and we owe it to this crowd to come and do better than what we did on Monday and the past few weeks.

“It only takes one good win to turn a team or a season around. It’s about getting that confidence back and gelling as a team.

“If we can get that then we can work on it. At the moment we’re trying hard to get it but we just can’t find it.

“We’ll have to change some things and try something else. It is a long season but we definitely don’t want to lose five in a row and we’ll be doing everything as a team to go out and not do that.”

And Monaghan believes Tony Smith and the backroom staff know where improvement is needed after the loss to Castleford.

“We had our chances,” he said. “We had a fair bit of the ball but just let them off the hook at certain times in the game.

“We’re not building enough pressure on teams at the moment. Our defence is way off so we’ve got to go back to the drawing board now.”