{"id":766902,"date":"2026-09-11T04:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766902\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T04:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:52:10","slug":"squad-news-newcastle-thunder-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766902\/","title":{"rendered":"Squad News: Newcastle Thunder (A)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Head Coach Allan Coleman has named his 21-man squad to face Newcastle Thunder in the Betfred Championship Qualifying Final. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are two changes from the squad that faced Oldham, Liam Bent returns to squad following an injury layoff, and Max Roberts slots back in. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike Butt comes out of the side to complete concussion protocol, Jumah Sambou also misses out after picking up a knock.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our official 2026 squad news partner is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorpoint.co.uk\/stores\/widnes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Motorpoint Widnes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vikings 21-man squad vs Newcastle <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 Jack Owens (Sponsored by Teeling Management)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5 Ryan Ince (Sponsored by Teeling Management)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6 Joe Lyons (Sponsored by Widiots Events)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7 Tom Gilmore (Sponsored by The Hollins Family)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8 Dan Murray (Sponsored by KJ Plumbing &amp; Heating Cheshire LTD)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9 Jordan Johnstone (Sponsored by DMR Motors)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10 Liam Bent (Harold Prescott and Sons Ltd)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">11 Sam Wilde (Sponsored by Jeannie\u2019s Away Travel)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">12 Max Roberts (Sponsored by Widiots Events)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">13 Nick Gregson (Sponsored by DMR Motors)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">14 Matty Fozard (Sponsored by Emris Services)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">15 Lewis Hall (Sponsored by Base Brands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">16 Danny Langtree (Sponsored by The Morton Family)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">17 Danny Richardson (Sponsored by West End Motors)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">18 Morgan McWhirter (Sponsored by Widnes Vikings Diehards)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">19 Adam Lawton (Sponsored by 1st Widnes Boys Brigade Old Boys)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">21 Jay Chapelhow (Sponsored by Skin Deep Aesthetics)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">23 Nathan Connell (Sponsored by West End Motors)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">24 Frank Sergent (Sponsored by Car Spa \u2013 Mobile Valeting)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">25 Kieran Taylor (Sponsored by Moorfield Under 10s)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">35 Max Banditt (Sponsored by West End Motors)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head Coach Allan Coleman has named his 21-man squad to face Newcastle Thunder in the Betfred Championship Qualifying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-766902","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\/766902","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=766902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}