WOLVES fans, players and Tony Smith react to the defeat at Leeds Rhinos on Friday.

Twitter:

Daryl Clark ‏(@Darylclark9): Gutted about the performance last night far from acceptable from us we have a few days to rip in and turn it around Thursday #super8s

Luke Sampson ‏(@LukeSampson90): Keep your heads up @wolvesrl yougsters had a good run out and Sandow looked dangerous, especially for his first game. @kevpenny24 wire 100%

Mike Tress ‏(@bigmiketress): Thought Sandow played well tonight. 1st game with little training. He will win us more games than he loses

Sorrel Wilson ‏(@SozzaWilson): Might not be an ideal result tonight for @wolvesrl but let’s not lose faith...there’s still plenty of #Super8s actions to come

Carl Porter ‏(@CarlPorter1): Gr8 night staying up until 1am in 90 degree heat 2 watch another lack of competitiveness from @wolvesrl struggling 2 keep the faith!

Andrew Rankin (@Andrew_Rankin1): @wolvesrl @leedsrhinos can’t fault Leeds tonight showed us how to play rugby. We was very very poor

Phil Barron (@Phil_Barron_NW): @wolvesrl. Beaten by a rampant Leeds team no disgrace with so many injuries onwards and upwards for Thursday to get back on track

warringtonguardian.co.uk:

garethpjones: Yes we’ve been missing the players who’ve left, but we’re also missing key members of our present squad like Westwood. On a positive, Sandow showed some real promise in only his first game

pennstate: Fans can post what they like. We have gone back 3 years and we deserve the redicule we get. We have off loaded quality and not replaced it. Leeds fans felt sorry for us tonight and asked what on earth has gone wrong? It will not matter what anyone’s opinion is because the truth is in the attendance figures. The fans deserve better than this. When we had no money it was to be expected and I still enjoyed it every week. The faces on the terraces said it all tonight, complete misery . Does Smith still think we are a top 4 side, he needs to analyse the results and league table? It’s the worst I have felt in 40 years of watching!

Post-match:

Tony Smith: “Please, don’t question my players about that. Momentum is a big thing in rugby league and it was going against us today. It’ll go our way at some stage as well.

“Please don’t question desire or effort, you can question methods sometimes and technique and all those sorts of things and that’s what we were lacking tonight.

“Some of our hit-and-stick in tackles wasn’t good enough and we didn’t control the ruck speed enough and stop the ball from being offloaded.

“We had some young people out there, we’ve got some people carrying injury at the moment.

“I’m not excuse-making, that’s just how it is at the moment.

“When we get back to some of our best, and we’ve shown that at different stages this year – when we fire we can beat anybody so we’ll be aiming up again next week."