{"id":362523,"date":"2026-01-10T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/362523\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:19:08","slug":"report-warrington-wolves-50-12-widnes-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/362523\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: WARRINGTON WOLVES 50-12 WIDNES VIKINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"125\" data-end=\"250\">The Vikings fell to a 50-12 defeat against Warrington Wolves at the Halliwell Jones Stadium in their final pre-season outing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"252\" data-end=\"435\">Allan Coleman\u2019s side found it difficult to match a strong Warrington team that featured several established first-team players, with the hosts asserting control from the early stages.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"437\" data-end=\"700\">Josh Thewlis opened the scoring inside the opening 10 minutes, finishing in the right-hand corner after a neat attacking move.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"437\" data-end=\"700\">The winger then struck twice more in quick succession to complete a hat-trick before the 20-minute mark, giving Warrington a commanding 16-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"702\" data-end=\"838\">The Vikings had an opportunity to respond through Ryan Ince, but the winger was unable to take the ball cleanly as he went for the line.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"840\" data-end=\"1029\">Warrington continued to build pressure and extended their advantage before the break, with Ewan Irwin and Luke Thomas both crossing to send the hosts into the interval with a 28-point lead.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1031\" data-end=\"1220\">The second half began in similar fashion as Leon Hayes capitalised on a spilled kick from Matt Fleming, before Ben Hartill powered over from close range to further stretch the Wolves\u2019 lead.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1222\" data-end=\"1423\">The Vikings showed resilience and were rewarded with their first try of the evening when 18-year-old Deacon Connolly claimed Toby Hughes\u2019 cross-field kick to score a memorable try for the young centre.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1425\" data-end=\"1542\">Mike Butt added a second for the Vikings shortly after, diving in at the corner following a well-worked passing move.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1544\" data-end=\"1726\">However, any momentum was quickly halted as Tommy Rhodes intercepted Joe Lyons\u2019 pass to score, before Ewan Smith crossed to bring the game to a close.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings turn their attention to a big clash with London Broncos next week at the Cherry Red Records Stadium as we get our Betfred Championship campaign underway. Tickets are available <a href=\"https:\/\/londonbroncos.ticketco.events\/uk\/en\/e\/london_broncos_v_widnes_vikings_2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/df417eab-2f42-4cdb-9eb9-f6f112e0ffdc-e1768008882452-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"885\" height=\"578\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TEAMS AND SCORERS<\/p>\n<p>Warrington Wolves: Taylor-Wray, Thewlis, King, Smith, Thewlis, Irwin, Sneyd, Byrne, Walker, Philbin, Stone, Tanginoa, Crowther<\/p>\n<p>Interchanges: Holden, Webster, Duffy Rhodes, Hayes, Thomas, Hartill, Wood, Smith, Yates, Williams, Holdsworth, Coop, Cooper, Lund<\/p>\n<p>Tries:\u00a0Thewlis x3, Irwin, Thomas, Hayes, Hartill, Rhodes, Smith<\/p>\n<p>Goals: Sneyd x4, Irwin x2, Hayes<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Widnes Vikings: Fleming, Connell, Owens, Edge, Ince, Lyons, Abdull, Murray, Johnstone, Chapelhow, Wilde, Roberts, Gregson<\/p>\n<p>Interchanges: Butt, Bent, Fozard, Hall, Bibby, Taylor, Hughes, Connolly, Houghton<\/p>\n<p>Tries: Connolly, Butt<\/p>\n<p>Goals: Abdull, Edge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vikings fell to a 50-12 defeat against Warrington Wolves at the Halliwell Jones Stadium in their final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-362523","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\/362523","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=362523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}