ON what he called a “disrupted night” for his side, Sam Burgess was pleased to see his Warrington Wolves players come out on the other side.

However, he insists there is still plenty of improvement he wants to see despite watching his charges run out comfortable victors against Castleford Tigers.

26 unanswered points in 20 minutes either side of the break proved enough to make it back-to-back wins for Burgess’ side as The Wire recovered from a poor start which saw them fall behind early thanks to Josh Simm’s try.

As a very basic starting point, the Wire boss was pleased to see what he considered “a better spectacle for everyone” in terms of the number of penalties blown, with just seven awarded across the whole game with no cards shown by referee Aaron Moore, who was praised for his handling of the action.

“I thought we were good in patches on a disrupted night,” he said.

“I really enjoyed watching the game and I think it was a better spectacle for everyone watching with fewer penalties, no cards.

“The referee did a great job managing it and it was more like a game of rugby league tonight.

“All coaches are really trying hard to keep indiscipline out of their teams especially with the new rules coming in, and the players are doing their absolute best.

“I was happy we saw a good game of rugby at least.

“The ball was in play for 10 minutes in the first part of the game until they scored.

“They had an offload inside their own 10 – sometimes they end up going your way but sometimes they don’t and they made a long break.

“They got us in the far corner and if they’re going to get us anywhere after a break, I’d rather it be there.

“Leon (Hayes) managed the game well with Drinky (Josh Drinkwater) in the first half after that and got us back into a bit of a grind.

“They came to play and threw their best at us in the first 20 minutes, so we had to come to play as well.”

Matty Ashton finished off two well-worked left-edge moves in the corner to edge The Wire ahead before another break down that edge ended with Joe Philbin crashing over before the break.

Having set up Ashton’s tries, Matt Dufty then got himself on the scoresheet just after the interval before the right edge got in on the act late on, with Josh Thewlis touching down to round off the scoring.

Signs of the work being done in attack by assistant coach Martin Gleeson were evident but Burgess insists there is more to come.

“Gleese is a great coach but he’s a perfectionist, so I’m sure his smile turned upside down in the second half,” he said.

“There’s parts of our game that we still have to work on and there were some old habits creeping in.

“We’ve still got work to do but we’re really happy with the two points.

“Castleford were good but we were that little bit better in areas, but we can certainly improve.”

Burgess also reserved praise for Ben Currie, who once again turned out at loose forward and put in an impressive individual display.

And he admits that he could have put himself in the frame to be an option for that position longer-term.

“He was pretty good tonight and was one of our best, if not the best,” he said.

“Him and Dufty were up there, Leon was probably in that category as well.

“He’s such an intelligent player, he’s very athletic and he’s got great skill so it suits him.

“He can manage it quite well as well so I’m not sure what we’ll do long-term with him.”