Rugby League: Super League: Warrington 12 - 40 St Helens

Paul Cullen has suffered much at the hands of St Helens in his six seasons as Warrington's coach and yesterday he had to listen to the Saints supporters singing "You're getting sacked in the morning" as their injury-hit team returned to the top of the Super League table with a second-half romp that condemned the underachieving Wolves to a sixth defeat in seven games.

Simon Moran, the music promoter who is Warrington's majority shareholder, holds the key to Cullen's future and was at the post-match press conference to hear the coach admit his position is "uncomfortable". His contract is up at the end of the season and no new deal has been offered.

"First 40 good enough and second 40 not," Cullen said when asked what had gone wrong. Indeed, heads dropped when Saints took the lead in the 48th minute with the first of three tries for Leon Pryce as 34 unanswered points took the visitors back above Leeds.

Henry Fa'afili had set up the position for Vinnie Anderson's opening try for Warrington and finished the second himself with a diving catch from Lee Briers' chip. But Matty Smith brought Saints level three minutes into the second half, then Pryce took a long pass from Jon Wilkin to stride 40 meters to the corner. Briers gifted Pryce his second and the stand-off shrugged off Adrian Morley's attempted tackle and dummied the full-back Brent Grose with ease for his hat-trick. Ade Gardner and Maurie Fa'asavalu also scored.

Warrington Wolves

Grose; Fa'afili, Martin Gleeson, Johnson, Barnett; Anderson, Briers; Wood, Clarke, Leikvoll, Westwood, Morley, Wainwright.

Interchange: Mark Gleeson, Parker, Bracek, Harrison.

St Helens

Wellens; McGilvray, Gidley, Gilmour, Gardner; Pryce, Smith; Cayless, Roby, Graham, Wilkin, Sculthorpe, Clough. Interchange: Cunningham, Hargreaves, Fa'asavalu, Tyrer.

Referee R Silverwood (Mirfield).