TOA Kohe-Love's exceptional try on Sunday will have left Halifax officials kicking themselves.

The Blue Sox were hot on 22-year-old Kohe-Love and showing interest in trying to sign the New Zealand centre last year but nothing came of it and on Sunday they saw again why the Wolves were not, and would not, be prepared to let him go.

His dazzling footwork in the treacherous New Shay conditions was staggering as he scored a 38th minute try that gave Warrington a morale-boosting half-time lead.

Kohe-Love left Martin Moana and Gavin Clinch clutching at thin air as he stepped and shimmied off both feet and then skipped round full back Daryl Cardiss too.

It left coach Darryl Van de Velde saying: "Very few players in the game could have scored that try."

Kohe-Love has now scored in each of Warrington's games this season.

After Sunday's game he said: "I can't remember my try that well. The pitch was very heavy and it was difficult for me to use my step but I put the terrible weather conditions to the back of my mind and just went for it. I took a pass off Scott Wilson and it paid off and it came at a time when we needed it too.

"But it wasn't only wet out there, it was freezing cold too and I couldn't feel my hands. The important thing though is we won."

Some of Kohe-Love's teammates believe he has the best footwork skills in British Rugby League and he agreed his side-step is a crucial part of his game.

He said: "I am probably one of the smallest centres in the game at the moment so I have to use what I have got and be more agile than my opponents."

Kohe-Love, like all the players, is upbeat about the season ahead after the Wolves' wonderful start to the campaign.

He said: "Although the season has only just started I know that this is going to be the best season since I have been here. I can tell already that it is going to be a big year."

Kohe-Love was signed from Wellington in New Zealand for Warrington by John Dorahy in 1996 and at the time Alex Murphy tagged him as 'the new Henry Paul'. This season he is all set to make it clear that he is the one and only Toa Kohe-Love.

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