GOING to a Salford away match since they moved to their new stadium makes me feel a bit like an explorer from hundreds of years ago.

I never know exactly where I’m going, or how I’m going to get there, I just hope it’s worth the trip.

On this occasion I definitely felt it was worth the magical mystery tour of the of the Greater Manchester region as I attempted to avoid being stuck in traffic.

Whilst being far from perfect, this was a high-energy Wire performance with a great level of enthusiasm and spirit.

For once they got the full benefit of one of their trademark charge downs, as Currie was able to re-gather the ball after his own block and race away for the opening try of the match.

While we’re on that subject I’m going to mention again that I think the current rule on charge downs is ridiculous, to allow the kicking team a whole new set of six is almost as good as getting a penalty and that’s their reward for some bad attacking play whilst punishing some fantastic defence seems utterly crazy to me.

The next Wire try did nothing to assure us that they have found a structure or plan to improve their attacking close to their opponents’ line, instead it was more a case of a lack of cohesion turning into some brilliant broken field off the cuff play, as first Clark angled left to right across the field, evading Salford defenders as they took turns trying to grab him, before they could stop him properly he managed to offload to Bridge who almost retraced Clark’s steps back across an increasingly disjointed looking Salford defensive line.

Four players surrounded Bridge, who did well to make an extra effort to off load the ball as he knew that so many players coming to tackle him meant there was a definite over lap on the Wire left, which they duly exposed to give Ormsby his first try of the night.

Salford were competitive all night, and look good enough to finish plenty higher than their current 11th.

As they kept the score close it looked like we could witness another thrilling finish like the ones against Widnes and Hull.

In a week when Wire had a hooker depart the club for good it was the introduction of another hooker into this game that helped finally swing the game decisively Wire’s way.

As loyal a servant and spirited a performer as Higham has been for Warrington maybe his leaving will be a blessing in disguise.

It’s great to see another product of the Wire youth system back in the first team and Dwyer in my eyes is a fantastic hooker, especially coming off the bench to inject some pace and energy into a game when the defence will be tiring.

One way he’s not perhaps expected to make an impact is by putting on a big shot onto a ball carrier and forcing a knock on, but that was exactly what he did in this game, which to go along with all his lively moments out of acting half back helped clinch the win.

The win got the ultimate exclamation mark when Ormsby scored his third and final try of the night whilst doing his superman impression to somehow touch down in the corner.

Gradually we are learning to trust our young players, ones that have come through our system, Currie in particular was outstanding on this night, creating tries for Ormsby to go with one of his own.

After years of being outperformed by Wigan, Saints and Leeds in particular in terms of producing our own players, it has perhaps taken a lot of fans a while to realise that we too now produce a lot of Super League standard players.

When all fit we could now put out a 17 that includes, Penny, Rhys Evans, Toby King, Currie, Patton, O’Brien, Ben Evans, Dwyer, Harrison, George King, Philbin and Laithwaite, all of whom have spent time in the Wire academy.

Whenever the curse is lifted, and it surely will be one day, it would be great to have plenty of Warrington lads in the team who finally lift the title.

This current team doesn’t look like the best team in the league at the moment, they look too unsure of how to score from close to an opponent’s line and the defence still has too many flaws in it for any coach’s liking.

But the spirit is definitely there, it was great to see so many of them showing one of the other sides of the spirit of ‘55 by spending some time with the fans after the game and getting in on some pictures.

Whilst the spirit and the desire are there along with their many skills, they will always have a fighting chance of winning the title.