{"id":39638,"date":"2025-08-02T03:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/39638\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T03:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:55:12","slug":"will-roberts-loan-extended-until-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/39638\/","title":{"rendered":"WILL ROBERTS LOAN EXTENDED UNTIL END OF SEASON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Widnes Vikings can confirm that Will Roberts\u2019 loan with the club has been extended until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The young halfback has impressed in recent fixtures, kicking six goals from seven and registering one assist in the Vikings\u2019 games against Doncaster and Bradford.<\/p>\n<p>St Helens will hold a recall clause.<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach Allan Coleman said: \u201cIt\u2019s superb news for us. I think Will\u2019s been brilliant since he\u2019s come in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWith Dec Patton back playing and Tom Gilmore not far away, it\u2019s vital we have options in the halves and people playing for jerseys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI think he\u2019s shown he\u2019s more than capable of playing at this level, and I\u2019m just surprised he\u2019s not played at Super League yet with the quality he\u2019s got.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Get your tickets for this weekend\u2019s trip to Sheffield Eagles\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sheffieldeagles.ticketco.events\/uk\/en\/e\/sheffield_eagles_vs_widnes_vikings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Widnes Vikings can confirm that Will Roberts\u2019 loan with the club has been extended until the end of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-39638","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\/39638","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=39638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}