TOA Kohe-Love knows a season's hard work will hinge on one game when Wolves take on Hull in the first round of the play-offs on Saturday.

Wolves have played 28 league games this year to earn their chance to go for glory in the end-of-season knockout competition, and Kohe-Love is determined not to allow that effort to be wasted.

"We know 28 weeks of hard work all comes down to one 80-minute game, so it's very important we get a result," he said.

"A lot of work has gone in since pre-season in December, but it looks like a whole season comes down to this one game, and although I wouldn't say it the season would be a failure if we lost on Saturday, it wouldn't be the success we wanted it to be.

"But if we perform like we did at the KC Stadium then we should get the same result, and I'm really excited about the game.

"The town's on a high and we're three games away from the Grand Final, and that's the way we're looking at it."

But even though Wolves made themselves heavy favourites for the tie by winning at Hull on Friday, the 28-year-old centre thinks that victory will count for nothing on Saturday.

He said: "I don't think Friday's win will help because we've still got to turn up and win the game. It might give us a little bit of a psychological edge, but the result doesn't count for anything now because they will have a different side out with a few players back from injury."

Despite this being the New Zealander's seventh season in Warrington colours either side of a three-year spell away from the club, his only previous appearance in the play-offs was for Hull in 2002.

Kohe-Love felt he was misrepresented in the local media when he left them for Bradford two years later and was expecting a bad reception from the fans when he made his first return to the KC Stadium on Friday.

But it never materialised and the likeable Kiwi completed a good night by scoring two tries, one of which came from an Andrew Johns bomb that left Hull in a spin.

He said: "We know that when Andrew gets the ball we should expect the unexpected - he has told us that - and I think Hull thought he was going to kick it the other way.

"I had a lot of family there because a lot of them are from Hull and are Hull supporters, but they were supporting me as well.

"I'm still good friends with the Hull players, and I think it was one of my better games. I feel like I'm coming into a bit of form at the moment."