{"id":203905,"date":"2025-10-16T09:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/203905\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T09:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:48:08","slug":"vikings-img-grading-confirmed-widnes-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/203905\/","title":{"rendered":"VIKINGS IMG GRADING CONFIRMED &#8211; Widnes Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Widnes Vikings are pleased to share that our IMG score has increased from 8.6 last year to 9.39, moving the club up the rankings from 22nd to 19th overall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This represents a meaningful step forward, particularly in light of the significant changes to the grading pillars introduced this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While the headline figure may appear to show a modest increase, it\u2019s important to add context. If assessed under the 2024 grading pillars, our score would rise to 12.24 \u2013 a much more accurate reflection of the progress and development seen across the club and through the work of the Viking Sports Foundation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We have not seen how we fare against others ahead of the announcement earlier today but will have more information to feed back at the Viking Voice Event on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Now that the first twelve teams competing in the 2026 Super League have been confirmed, we await the outcome of the independent panel\u2019s decision regarding the 13th and 14th places.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34329 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9910-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Widnes Vikings are pleased to share that our IMG score has increased from 8.6 last year to 9.39,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-203905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}