Warrington vs Wakefield
Super League
7:45pm Friday 6th September
Halliwell Jones Stadium
Warrington Wolves endured a courageous fightback to claim a 23-16 victory and secure their position in the Super League play-offs.
A rally in the people saw them twice reduce the deficit to just four points, although as they led 16-0 at half-time the Wolves looked to be on their way at in the Halliwell Jones Stadium.
Steve Price’s men ended their streak in Super League tries from Josh Charnley, Bryson Goodwin, Ben Currie and Daryl Clark while Stefan Ratchford kicked Dec Patton and three goals added a drop goal.
Wakefield claimed tries through Ryan Hampshire, Ben Jones-Bishop along with Morgan Escare and listed 2 goals from Danny Brough. However, the defeat means they remain in the relegation struggle and face an showdown at home to London Broncos next week.
Blake Austin returned into the Wolves side following a four-week absence with the ankle injury that compelled to him overlook the Challenge Cup final win over St Helens, while Chris Hill, Mike Cooper, Patton and Toby King came back into the side after missing the loss to Salford Red Devils five days following his Wembley heroics.
Wakefield made four changes for the side that missing 24-16 at home with Titus Gwaze coming to the negative for Chris Annakin, Anthony England, James Batchelor and Bill Tupou, Jordan Crowther, George King and Joe Arundel.
The visitors had given a good account of themselves in the opening exchanges, dealing with everything and forcing two dropouts the Wolves were throwing at them.
But following all their early fantastic work that they pressed on the self-destruct button on the last tacklethe ball slipped through Danny Brough’s hands and Jacob Millar was forced into a hurried kick which went out to the full, gifting Warrington ownership 20 metres from the Trinity lineup.
The Wolves needed no second invitation as Jason Clark slid a pass from the attack and Lance Todd trophy winner Clark scooted around to the opening try.
Along with the home side added to their tally five minutes after once that the Wolves hooker was included because his long pass gave Currie the space to attack the Wakefield line and the next rower pushed over in the corner, together along with Ratchford landing a fine touchline conversion to make it 10-0.
And Warrington dominance attracted more points eight minutes when some management saw King launch Charnley and the winger raced down the touchline.
Ratchford booted to give the Wolves a 16-0 edge at half-time.
Wakefield stunned their hosts with two tries in the opening seven minutes to give themselves hope of a comeback and created the perfect start to the period.
Trinity submitted their first points of the match two minutes after the restart when Arundel made Escare and a break had been in service to carry his score and pass.
When some play kept the ball alive and Jones-Bishop skipped during the Wolves defence to touch down and it made better for the visitors. With Brough on target using the two conversions, the lead was down to four factors in 16-12.
However, the momentum has been lost with another mistake when they lost possession inside their own half as Ratchford and Austin joined to ship Goodwin in at the corner, and the natives again took advantage.
Hampshire crossed to provide Trinity as it was made by his try confidence again 20-16 however a Ratchford penalty and any nerves silenced and observed the Wolves.
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