GRATEFUL for the two points but not happy with the performance against Castleford Tigers - that was Wolves' coach Darryl Van de Velde.

He said: "It is a positive start for us having two wins out of two in Super League but the team is not playing as well as it should and can.

"The defence was dramatically improved but the completion sets were awful. We were pushing passes and forcing play. We made a lot of errors but we ground out the result and got the two points."

As in the previous week, Van de Velde was critical of Warrington's kicking options.

He said: "We defended for 18 tackles, worked really hard and the players were exhausted but then we kicked the ball into open play instead of kicking for touch. It was dumb football. Even my six-year-old daughter would have known to have kicked the ball out after that.

"We're just not playing well as a unit yet. There's a lot of things that are not just working."

The Wolves camp was hit with flu going into the game with several players feeling under the weather during the build-up. One of them was substitute Steve McCurrie.

Van de Velde said: "Steve McCurrie was in bed all week with flu. He only trained on Friday morning so his match fitness was down."

Dean Busby missed out with his badly bruised hip from the Bradford loss which allowed Chris Causey to step in for his first appearance of the season.

Full back Lee Penny was left out with his thumb injury but Van de Velde was pleased with how Jon Roper coped in his absence.

He said: "I thought Jon played well. We were keen to keep it out of the spotlight about Jon playing full back because he has not played a lot of football there and I thought Castleford might target him.

"But everything they offered to Jon he answered. He got involved, carried the ball for some good yardage.

"Jon's biggest problem is his match fitness on the back of the chest infection he had keeping him out of pre-season training for two months. He got that far behind and is just trying to catch up."

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