{"id":571853,"date":"2026-05-07T22:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/571853\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:18:10","slug":"jack-billington-arrives-on-loan-for-remainder-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/571853\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Billington arrives on loan for remainder of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Widnes Vikings have signed forward Jack Billington from Betfred Super League side Huddersfield Giants on loan for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old has made 12 Super League appearances for the Giants, as well as spending time in the Championship with Sheffield, Batley, Barrow and Dewsbury in previous years.<\/p>\n<p>He goes straight into contention for this weekend\u2019s trip to Salford Red Devils.<\/p>\n<p>Vikings head coach Allan Coleman said: \u201cJack is a player I\u2019ve tried to get a few times. He\u2019s a strong, powerful and quick middle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got a bit of Super League experience but he\u2019s still relatively young. He\u2019s powerful with a lot of leg drive, a massive impact player, and we\u2019re really excited to get him in a Widnes jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jack Billington is sponsored by Vikings Away Travel @ The Village Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Widnes Vikings have signed forward Jack Billington from Betfred Super League side Huddersfield Giants on loan for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-571853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571853","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=571853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}