{"id":518803,"date":"2026-04-08T03:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518803\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T03:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:20:13","slug":"still-areas-to-tidy-up-says-wolves-reserves-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518803\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Still areas to tidy up&#8217; says Wolves Reserves boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The 11-try success in the curtain-raiser to the Super League match between the two clubs was Warrington\u2019s fifth straight win at the season\u2019s start.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Winger James Duffy led the try-scoring with a second-half brace, but chief playmaker Leon Hayes impressed and assisted multiple scores.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"James Duffy try for Warrington Wolves Reserves against Leigh Leopards\"\/>James Duffy try for Warrington Wolves Reserves against Leigh Leopards (Image: Neil Ashurst P&amp;B Pictures)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe were pretty disappointed with our first half \u2013 we were very reckless, impatient and wasteful with the ball,\u201d said O\u2019Brien, whose side led 22-0 at the interval.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cTo the players\u2019 credit, they owned it at half time and addressed that area of our game in the second half.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt was pleasing not to concede, but there are still lots of areas we need to tidy up.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The first half was a stop-start effort with both sides guilty of a string of handling errors that meant there was no flow to the game.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Nevertheless, Wolves opened the scoring in the third minute when a fine break by Tom McKinney led to Alfie Poles pouncing on a kick from Leon Hayes, who landed seven conversions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Leon Hayes\"\/>Leon Hayes (Image: Neil Ashurst P&amp;B Pictures)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Eight minutes later a short ball from Daniel Regan allowed Logan Raughter to crash through an attempted tackle to score.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ben Hartill found substitute Isaac Holdsworth to bulldoze over and then a kick into the in-goal area from Hayes brought a score for Coop.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Nine minutes into the second half Wolves moved further clear when Hartill scooted from dummy half and slipped a lovely ball to Hayes to score.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Leon Hayes on the attack for Warrington Wolves against Leigh Leopards\"\/>Leon Hayes on the attack for Warrington Wolves against Leigh Leopards (Image: Neil Ashurst P&amp;B Pictures)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A 60-metre break from Zack Gardner led to a \u2018six again\u2019 and eventually Duffy and cut back inside, brushing off three defenders, to score.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  From a scrum, Hayes\u2019 long looping pass sent Duffy racing into the corner and then slick handling as Hayes combined with Tommy Rhodes and Oliver Bishop put Gardner over.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Zack Gardner dives over for Warrington Wolves Reserves against Leigh Leopards\"\/>Zack Gardner dives over for Warrington Wolves Reserves against Leigh Leopards (Image: Neil Ashurst P&amp;B Pictures)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Lovely play from a scrum by the impressive Hayes saw him find Lachlan Webster linking into the line to race over.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And then Hayes put Raughter through a gap and after haring clear he had Regan in support to cross the whitewash.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  With the last play of the game quick hands from Hartill, Regan, Hayes, Bishop and Rhodes created room for Jack Fallon to complete the scoring.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wolves: Lachlan Webster; James Fallon, Zack Gardner, Alfie Poles, James Duffy; Tommy Rhodes, Leon Hayes; Logan Raughter, Ben Hartill, Tom McKinney, James McGuire, Kian Stanton, Daniel Regan. Subs: Isaac Holdsworth, Oliver Bishop, Daniel Coop, Joe Bajer, Jack Pendlebury (18th man).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 11-try success in the curtain-raiser to the Super League match between the two clubs was Warrington\u2019s fifth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-518803","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\/518803","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=518803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}