Warrington Wolves' Kurt Gidley confident ahead of St Helens clash

Warrington's Kurt Gidley is confident that his side are well placed to challenge St Helens in Friday's Super League clash, live on Sky Sports.

Reeling from back-to-back defeats at the hands of Wakefield and Castleford in recent weeks, the Wolves struck back with a nine-try demolition of reigning champions Leeds Rhinos on Friday evening, a step in the right direction for Gidley and his team ahead of their trip to Langtree Park to take on fifth placed St Helens.

"We got four guys back from injury which certainly helps with attacking, defending and confidence as a team," said Gidley. "We did some analysis early in the week and then we defended a lot better on Friday night against Leeds than probably the previous two weeks.

"So there's much more of a spring in our step this week and St Helens actually beat us last time at home, which is something that happened pretty recently, so we've a chance to get them at their home ground this week."

The 33-year-old contributed 20 points, a try and eight conversions in the victory over the Rhinos, but despite the strong performance of his team just seven days ago, Gidley is all too aware of the threat of the Saints, Warrington having fallen short against Kieran Cunningham's men in a 22-25 defeat back in April.

"I'm not sure if Luke Walsh is playing but their halves last time dominated the game for them" added Gidley. "Theo Fages and Luke Walsh controlled the game really well last time that we played them and we actually scored more tries but we let in way too many points in the end and they beat us at home.

"So, I remember from that night we weren't quite on defensively and our kicking game was off and the combination of those two things meant that we lost the game in the end."

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Gidley has quickly settled into his first season of Super League rugby, since his move from the NRL and Newcastle Knights and is keen to continue the positive start made with the Wolves.

"I've always watched the Super League since I was a young kid and certainly the test teams against the Kangaroos. My brother played over at St Helens for four years so I've been watching the Super League for a fair while now and always aspired to come over and challenge myself," he said.

"This is the right time to do that in my career and I'm really enjoying the new challenge. There have certainly been some tough games and I'm enjoying my decision to come over and play for Warrington - it's been great so far hopefully we can continue to grow as a team and have plenty more good times ahead."