Josh Charnley insists Warrington Wolves squad is united

The Wire face Castleford Tigers tonight with the aim of rebounding from last week’s Headingley horror show – a dismal 36-0 defeat to Leeds Rhinos.

With the team in inconsistent form both in terms of results and performances, head coach Steve Price is coming under increasing fire from the terraces.

Winger Charnley was quick to pour scorn on any thoughts of divisions within the squad and was adamant both players and coaches were aligned behind the same goal.

When asked whether the players were fully behind Price and each other, Charnley replied: “Of course we are. 100 per cent.

“We’re still strong as a group. We’re tight-knit and there’s no doubting that.

“We’re all disappointed but we’re all there for each other.

“We’re on a ride and we all want silverware so we have to take the ups and downs.

“We’re all in it together – we all wrote down at the start of the year what we wanted and we’ll stick by that.

“It’s round six. It’s a long year.

“The fans want us to perform straight away and we want that too, but they have to understand we don’t go out there to lose.”

Steve Price looks dejected following the defeat at Leeds Rhinos. Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com

There are plenty of demons for The Wire to banish, but they will hope a return to The Halliwell Jones Stadium will help in that respect.

While they have lost all three away games this season amid a run of eight straight league defeats on the road stretching back to last July, both home matches this season have ended in Wire victories.

Tonight's task is a tough one against a Castleford side that have won four of their five games this season to set Super League’s early pace alongside Wigan Warriors.

However, Charnley is in bullish mood.

“They might come here thinking our heads are going to be down and that we’re only going to dip our toes in,” he said.

“We’re not – we’re going to go full force at them and start as we mean to go on.

“I think a lot of the lads were embarrassed by what we served up on Friday.

“We reviewed it on Saturday and we just want to put it to the back of our minds.

“We want to get rid of those memories.”

Asked about how discussions in the camp post-Headingley have been, the England international said: “They were honest. Very honest.

“It was a hefty defeat but we’re not sloping around.

“I think sometimes you need a defeat like that to re-spark things.

“The two games at the start of the year – Wigan and St Helens – were our platform and we need to get back up to that.”