This was after their good form the week before when they knocked over second placed Bathurst St Patricks.

The Wolves’ preparation was tested with centre Zac Jones informing the club during the week that he was out as he had to go to Sydney to gain employment, winger Keelan Bresac was not available and the club was informed late Friday night that forward Kyle Willmott was suspended for one week after a striking charge coming from last week’s game against St Patricks.

This comes on top of all the injuries the club has sustained over the season.

The Wolves arrived at Blayney with only 12 players with coach Graeme Osborne forced to take Josh Howarth off at half time in the first division to use him in premier division.

He also brought up under 18’s Liam Wilson, Darcy Allan and Wayde Egan to sit on the bench to act as reserves.

Blayney took full advantage of the pre-match chaos the Wolves were in and jumped to an 18-nil lead after 10 minutes.

The Wolves settled down and got into some rhythm and worked their way back into the game playing some good football to get within two points of the home side at 22-20 at the break.

In the second half, the game went try for try with the Wolves trailing 32-30 with only five minutes to go and were unlucky not to be in the lead.

With the Wolves’ defence tiring, Blayney run in a couple of late tries to take the game 42-30.

“Winning is a habit, as is losing and unfortunately we are the latter,” coach Graeme Osborne said.

“It is hard to keep in the grind when you have a new side each week with key players pulling out that really upsets the defensive patterns.

“When you are enjoying a winning year, it is easy to have pride in your try line and put in long periods of defence.

“I was particularly pleased with Josh (Howarth) for filling in after playing half a reserve grade game and also Liam (Wilson) who came on the wing early in the game after starring in under 18.

“He had a great game scoring two tries and was unlucky not to finish with a hat-trick.”

Best for the Wolves were hooker Jamie Clark who was head and shoulders above the rest with the tough little hooker never turning in a bad game.

He had good support coming from centre Ngamanu Winitana, winger Liam Wilson and second rower Corey Willmott who showed plenty of courage to return to the field after suffering a nasty head wound.

The Wolves will now be able to lick their wounds when they have the bye next weekend and hopefully get some of their players back on the paddock for the following week when they take on Orange CYMS here at Lithgow in what should be another tough game.

The Wolves’ lower grades did much better winning all three of their matches against Blayney and keep their top five positions intact.