{"id":28309,"date":"2025-07-28T08:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28309\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T08:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:48:10","slug":"report-widnes-vikings-16-28-bradford-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28309\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: WIDNES VIKINGS 16-28 BRADFORD BULLS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Vikings suffered their third consecutive defeat this afternoon, falling 28-16 to Bradford Bulls at the DCBL Stadium.<\/p>\n

Allan Coleman\u2019s side held a narrow advantage at the break, but a string of second-half errors proved costly as the visitors fought back to claim the spoils.<\/p>\n

It was the Vikings who struck first, Ben Condon climbing highest to claim a high kick before offloading to Dan Murray, who crossed for the try.<\/p>\n

Bradford responded ten minutes later, Tom Holmes racing clear from deep to outpace Joe Edge and touch down, levelling the scores.<\/p>\n

The Vikings regained the lead shortly after, Condon latching onto a short pass from Will Roberts to power over out wide. When Nick Gregson was caught high moments later, Roberts slotted the resulting penalty to extend the lead to 14-6.<\/p>\n

However, the Bulls hit back on the stroke of half-time, Jayden Okunbor finishing in the corner to cut the deficit to four points at the interval.<\/p>\n

Bradford came out strongly after the restart, Zac Fulton supporting a Luke Hooley break to score and hand the visitors their first lead of the afternoon.<\/p>\n

A second penalty goal from Roberts, after another high shot, this time on Edge, brought the Vikings level at 16-16, but Bradford would finish the stronger.<\/p>\n

With ten minutes remaining, Rhys Williams had possession stripped by Waqa Blake, and from the resulting play, Hooley exploited a disjointed defence to dive over and restore the Bulls\u2019 advantage.<\/p>\n

Okunbor then sealed victory in the final moments, intercepting a pass from Matt Fleming and racing 60 metres to score his second of the game and wrap up a 28-16 win for the visitors.<\/p>\n

We turn our attention to a trip to the Steel City Stadium to take on Sheffield Eagles. Tickets are available HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"CREDIT: RLPIX.COM<\/p>\n

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TEAMS AND SCORERS<\/p>\n

Widnes Vikings: Edge, Butt, M Roberts, Fleming, Williams, Patton, W Roberts, Murray, Johnstone, Bent, Condon, Lawton, Gregson<\/p>\n

Interchanges: McWhirter, Fozard, Bennion, McKinney, Irwin (18th)<\/p>\n

Tries: Murray, Condon<\/p>\n

Goals: W Roberts x4<\/p>\n

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Bradford Bulls: Hooley, Okunbor, Blake, Gill, Armitage, Keyes, Holmes, Bayliss, Lilley, Mason, Fulton, Gee, Doro<\/p>\n

Interchanges: Scurr, Souter, Hallas, Michael, Meadows (18th)<\/p>\n

Tries: Okunbor x2, Homles, Fulton, Hooley<\/p>\n

Goals: Hooley x4<\/p>\n

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ATTENDANCE: 3,304<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vikings suffered their third consecutive defeat this afternoon, falling 28-16 to Bradford Bulls at the DCBL Stadium.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-28309","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\/28309","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=28309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}