{"id":97220,"date":"2025-08-27T21:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/97220\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T21:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:26:10","slug":"max-roberts-pens-one-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/97220\/","title":{"rendered":"MAX ROBERTS PENS ONE YEAR EXTENSION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Widnes Vikings are delighted to announce that Max Roberts has signed a new one-year deal that will keep him with the club until the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts, 24, signed for the Vikings ahead of 2023 and has gone on to make 65 appearances, scoring 15 tries.<\/p>\n<p>He has appeared in 20 of our 26 fixtures this season and has started our last 11 games.<\/p>\n<p>On his new deal, Roberts said: \u201cI\u2019m really happy to be here for another year, obviously I\u2019ve already been with the club for three years and I\u2019ve really enjoyed my time here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI know all the lads, and we\u2019ve had a really good core group that makes it a really enjoyable place to be a part of.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe fans have made a huge difference as well; there\u2019s no one who turns up like the Widnes fans do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach Allan Coleman said: \u201cI\u2019m over the moon to keep Max. He\u2019s Mr Consistent in our team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHe\u2019ll play any position for you and won\u2019t let you down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHe loves the club and all the people here, so it\u2019s fantastic to get it done, and I think his best years are still ahead of him.<\/p>\n<p>Max is sponsored by Widiots Events for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Retentions like this are assisted by the fantastic Widnes VIPS scheme in place to assist in strengthening the Vikings\u2019 squad. If fans wish to sign up for the scheme, they can do so\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.widnesvips.co.uk\/join-now\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone at the club is delighted to see Max extend his stay and can\u2019t wait to see him pulling on the jersey next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Widnes Vikings are delighted to announce that Max Roberts has signed a new one-year deal that will keep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-97220","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\/97220","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=97220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}