{"id":367949,"date":"2025-12-24T02:46:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/367949\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T02:46:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:46:23","slug":"newcastle-red-bulls-christian-wade-can-give-us-attacking-lift-says-dickens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/367949\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Red Bulls: Christian Wade can give us attacking lift, says Dickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wade, 34, has come back to rugby union following a short stint in rugby league with Wigan Warriors and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cde6gd47r7go\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">w<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cde6gd47r7go\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ith an eye on overhauling Chris Ashton&#8217;s record of 101<\/a> as the all-time leading try-scorer in Prem Rugby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He needs nine more tries to claim the record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Red Bulls have lost all seven of their league games this season and it is in attack where there is the biggest difference with Newcastle&#8217;s tally of 14 tries well below the top six who have all scored at least 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the match against Bath at Kingston Park, the hosts grabbed just two tries from eight entries into Bath&#8217;s 22, whereas the defending champions scored from eight of their 12 visits into Newcastle&#8217;s territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Being clinical is a massive factor in the outcome of the game and Bath were far more clinical than us,&#8221; said Dickens. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Against the Lions, our defence was outstanding but we allowed them to get into our 22. That&#8217;s what happened at the weekend and against a team like Bath, we suffered.&#8221;     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wade, 34, has come back to rugby union following a short stint in rugby league with Wigan Warriors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-367949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}