WOLVES boss Tony Smith was not doing cartwheels about Warrington’s performance as the team booked a place in the Carnegie Challenge Cup semi finals with a 25-24 golden-point success against Hull KR at Craven Park on Saturday.

Travelling supporters and the Wolves players went loopy with their celebrations after Lee Briers landed the decisive drop goal after the teams had finish all square after 80 minutes.

But Wolves’ head of coaching and rugby Tony Smith was staying very calm about it all.

“It was an exciting finish, I’ll go along with that,” he said.

“I think the scoreline probably made it exciting and a watchable game but I don’t know if either coach or either team would be happy with the performance.

“There’s only one team happy with the result, obviously, but performance wise it was pretty ordinary.

“At half time I thought we were pretty ordinary and Hull KR weren’t near as good as what I’ve seen them be in recent times.

“At six-all, I don’t know who should have thought they were lucky to be six all. It was pretty scrappy.

“We showed some courage to come back from 22-12 in the second half and I’ve rapped my team about that. But there was plenty of time left.

“We’ve shown a lot of never-say-die attitude in recent times. There were some pleasing aspects about the way we went about some things but there was plenty of time to go at that stage - that was the thing on our side. “When we went two scores behind there was still 20 minutes to go and that’s plenty of time in RL. In 20 minutes you can score umpteen amount of points.”