WARRINGTON Wolves’ young left-side caught Tony Smith’s eye in the 80-0 hammering of Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.

Nineteen-year-old debutant stand off Declan Patton operated on the left alongside back rower Ben Currie, aged 20, centre Toby King, aged 18 – a late call-up making his second Super League appearance, and Gene Ormsby, aged 22, playing his first Wolves game of the year.

Currie, King and Ormsby each scored two tries each, with Patton playing a big part on the creativity side as Wolves ended a four-match losing run in style against an injury ravaged bottom-of-the-table Wakefield team that suffered its eighth loss in a row.

“All we can do is do our job and I thought we did our job very well - with some changes and with some people who came in and did a really strong job well above their years,” said head of coaching and rugby Smith.

“It was a great first game for Declan. I thought he was fantastic and directed us around like a player who has been there for a long time.

“He combined really well with not only Richie Myler (half back partner) but all the players around him. I thought he was terrific.

“The whole left side did well. I thought Currie was absolutely on fire and he’s almost unstoppable when he gets in those sort of modes.

“We’ve seen it before from him and he’s a terrific young player. He was absolutely awesome along with Toby who got a call. The night before last (Thursday) we knew that he might be a chance of playing, so he’s had one training session with the first team before the final team run and went out and performed like that. It shows what a great talent he is.

“And Gene took his opportunity on the wing as well. I thought he had a great start and performed really well.

“So that left side was really on fire. Everybody played well but I thought that left side was terrific.”

Smith side his team will not be getting carried away by the victory though, the first since beating Leeds Rhinos at home on March 13 and following losses to St Helens, Huddersfield Giants, Widnes Vikings and Castleford Tigers.

“I feel for our opponents,” said Smith. “I don’t want to take anything away from our boys but it’s a tough old weekend for our opponents and that’s what you get after Easter sometimes.”

The Super League schedule handed all clubs two games over Easter, with Wakefield falling to Catalans Dragons and Leeds Rhinos in the space of five days and then backing up against Warrington who had a similar hectic run.

“Wakefield have been bashed from pillar to post and are down to the bare bones,” said Smith.

“It’s tough to keep picking yourself up off the ground unless you’ve got a strong outfit, a really talented outfit.

“We were beaten over the Easter weekend but we didn’t get bashed from pillar to post and we knew that we could go back to hard work and work things through.

“But our poor old opponents are right at their limits at the moment and we got them at a great time. I don’t want to take anything away from my boys but at the same time we’re not going to get carried away because if you look back over history it is happened to a lot of teams after Easter where they’ve flattened and been flattened.”