Tough win for Wolves

Warrington overcame the absence of their specialist half-backs and another facial injury to Great Britain forward Adrian Morley to inflict a 30-12 defeat on Hull KR.

Morley, returning from a fractured eye socket sustained in the opening game of the season, lasted just 17 minutes of his home debut. He appeared to clash heads with team-mate Paul Johnson as the pair tried to tackle Rovers full-back Ben Cockayne and played no further part.

Rovers were also dealt a major injury blow with the loss of James Webster on the stroke of half-time as the Wolves ran in six tries to strike a psychological blow ahead of their Challenge Cup clash later this month.

Jon Clarke and Vinnie Anderson provided a useful half-back partnership in the absence of Lee Briers and Chris Bridge while two-try Clarke, Michael Sullivan and Ben Westwood shared the goalkicking duties, landing a conversion apiece.

The home side led from the seventh minute when a classic break by Martin Gleeson created an early try for Fa'afili and Johnson came up with some deadly finishing to add a second nine minutes later. When Westwood jinked his way over and converted his own try, the Wolves were comfortably placed at 16-0.

The visitors gradually clawed their way back into the game, and Jason Netherton finished off a sustained spell of pressure with their first try two minutes before the break. Morton's conversion cut Warrington's lead to 10 points but the sight of Webster being helped from the field with an ankle injury at half-time clearly had a demoralising effect on the Robins.

Clarke got Johnson over for his second try within two minutes of the restart and then finished off a break by Michael Wainwright to score himself.

Johnson looked to have completed his hat-trick on 57 minutes but lost control in the act of scoring before producing another break to set up the position for Clarke to grab a second try.

Rovers, who also lost loose forward Tommy Gallagher with an arm injury early in the second half, never stopped working but lacked ideas without Webster and did not seriously threatened the Wolves line until Byron Ford grabbed a last-minute consolation try, goaled by Morton.