LARNE PATRICK, right, earned a fair amount of praise for his performance at Hull KR, and rightly so.

I’ve been watching with interest the way this talented young forward has been developing since he joined us just before the start of last season.

He made a steady start to his time here, but I think he really took a big step forward with his performance at St Helens the week before the Challenge Cup final.

Even though we were lacking a number of our first-choice forwards that night, Larne relished the battle and was one of our best players on the night.

That performance appeared to do wonders for his confidence, and he hasn’t really looked back since then.

And there’s no doubt with players like him, Leroy Cudjoe and Michael Lawrence around the future for the club does look very bright.

IT seems a fair amount of the talk ahead of our game against Warrington this weekend is being focused on our desire to gain revenge for the Wolves beating us in last season’s Challenge Cup final at Wembley.

That appears to be a recurring theme in the media and among a number of fans.

But it’s not something we’ve really spoken about as a squad.

Yes, we were disappointed by our performance and the defeat at Wembley, but for us revenge won’t be the main factor when we step onto the Galpharm pitch on Sunday.

One of the main reasons for that is this is a new season and, when you’re a player, you often try and forget the bad days you’ve had in the past and focus on the good days.

Obviously, that day out at Wembley last August turned out to be a bad day in the end, so we’ve tried to forget all about that!

As a result, this game on Sunday is all about making sure we’re prepared as well as we can, both mentally and physically, to beat a very good side and try and build on last week’s excellent 30-0 win at Hull KR.

On face value, a 30-0 victory looks pretty comprehensive and may suggest everything in our game fell right into place.

In truth, it was far from it.

Defensively, we’ve got to be pretty happy, but Nathan wasted little time telling us he was far from pleased with our efforts on attack.

We’ve spent a fair bit of time working on that part of our game during the close-season, but it’s fairly obvious to everyone we’ve still got a lot of work still to do, which I know will eventually come.

I say that because I know how hard this group of players will be prepared to work to reach that goal.

That’s been the case in training this week, and Sunday’s game is important simply because it’s the chance to see if we have made improvements in that area.

At this stage of the season, that has to be a priority.

Gaining revenge would be a bonus.