WE’VE been waiting for this for months.

Sure, we’ve seen flashes – however sporadic – but finally, Daryl Powell’s Warrington Wolves side put together a display that both convinced and achieved the desired outcome.

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It’s pretty much exclusively been either one or the other – victories before this have often been scratchy while the most impressive display before this was a gallant loss to St Helens a couple of months ago.

Had this game gone to form, the men in green would have been derided all the way back down the A1 and over the M62.

Thankfully, it went wonderfully against the script. Yes, Catalans had players missing but they still had more than enough to make them favourites.

Unfortunately for them, they ran into a Wire side seemingly determined to prove a point.

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There was a purpose to their play – a real verve and punch that caught the well-fancied Frenchmen off guard and once The Wire made a decisive grab for the lead, they never looked like surrendering it.

It is a sad indictment of this season that even in the brief moments of adversity they did face, you worried about how they might react.

When Gareth Widdop went off so early, throwing Plan A into disarray, or when Sam Tomkins narrowed the gap to four scores with still more than a quarter of the game to go.

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These are things that have bundled them off their stride before. Not this time.

At the heart of things once again was the new blood that has come in and impressed, and their impact seems to be rubbing off on those that were already here.

James Harrison continues to grow in stature, proving he is more than adept in a starting role in just his third game back from long-term injury.

While he too is still building himself up, Thomas Mikaele put in another powerfully promising display from the bench while Jake Wardle was mightily impressive on a left edge that tormented their opposite numbers.

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And then, there was Matty Nicholson.

Having ended up forming a very young and inexperienced right edge which also included Riley Dean and Josh Thewlis, he took everything in his stride.

Perhaps the biggest compliment he can be given is that he looked at home, like a veteran of 100-plus first-grade games as opposed to just two.

In scoring one well-taken try and being desperately unlucky to add a second, he showed just why Wigan were so desperately disappointed to lose him.

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On this evidence, Wire have a gem on their hands and not just in the long-term either. Surely now he will be given an extended run in the side.

As a collective, Wire need just that – a sustained sequence of this kind of result and performance that has proved hopelessly elusive so far this year.

One swallow does not a summer make, but this one sang pretty clearly.

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