Warrington Beat Wakefield To Extend Winning Start

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Warrington Wolves (14) 27


Tries: Sipley, Hopoate, Smith, King Goals: Sneyd 5 Drop objective: Sneyd


Wakefield Trinity (2) 16


Tries: Jowitt, Myers, Pratt Goals: Jowitt 2


Warrington survived a strong Wakefield fightback in the 2nd half to make it 2 wins from 2 in Super League.


The Wolves, who were coming off the back of a blank weekend due to the fact that of Hull Kingston Rovers' involvement on the planet Club Challenge, appeared to have taken a company grip on the game in the very first half.


Tries from Toafofoa Sipley and Albert Hopoate, in addition to the trustworthy kicking of Marc Sneyd, had them 14-2 up at the break.


Trinity, who chalked up their very first win of the season at Huddersfield recently, came back well as Jake Trueman brilliantly produced pursues Max Jowitt and Jayden Myers.


Wire replied as Australian newbie Josh Smith crossed for his first try however Oliver Pratt's score for Trinity set up a nervy ending, with the result settled by Sneyd's drop objective and Toby King's late shot.


Wire gave further evidence that they could make a fist of challenging for honours this season as Sneyd gave a kicking masterclass and they had the protective durability to hold company as Trinity came excellent.


Wakefield had won the previous three meetings of these 2, but they were soon in problem as Sneyd slotted over a penalty and after that video referee Chris Kendall reversed an on-field decision of "no shot" to provide Sipley four points.


A couple of minutes later on, Hopoate supported Danny Walker's break to streak away for another try for 14-0.


Wire seemed to have actually made a pricey mistake as they reacted to strong Wakefield pressure right at the end of the half by dedicating repeat offenses which saw Sipley sin-binned and Jowitt kick the resulting charge to provide his side a .


That ended up being a firmer platform early in the 2nd half as Trinity used the additional guy, Trueman slinging a fine pass over the top for Jowitt to score in the corner.


Sipley's first act on returning to the field was a ruck infringement which resulted in Trueman developing an even better looping cut-out pass and Myers completed to cut the lead to just four points.


That stimulated Wire into action after a drop in tempo and Sneyd's boot took control as he cracked the ball out to Smith, playing superior rugby for the very first time, to score his first shot, which Sneyd transformed and after that included a penalty to offer his side breathing time.


Pratt then got on completion of a fine kick by Jack Sinfield to score in the corner and when Jowitt brilliantly nailed the difficult conversion, the video game was back in the balance.


Wakefield seemed particular to score as Myers spotted for the corner but 20-year-old full-back Cai Taylor-Wray, who wowed the crowd with his assaulting prowess versus St Helens, produced a splendid take on to bundle him into touch and retain the lead.


Sneyd dropped an objective and then chipped another fragile kick to the corner for Smith to get and pass in mid-air for King to get rid of any doubt.


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'A really top quality video game'


"It was an actually top quality video game. Both sides were at 90-something percent conclusion.


"They were physical and we needed to ride out the first half but the video game lost its way a bit in the second half - [it was] not down to the gamers, it simply got a bit stop-start.


"In the very first half we could have attacked a little better. There are locations we can take a look at where we can challenge a little bit more and ask a couple of more concerns.


"The method the video game is going, it will take groups 8 to 10 weeks to figure it out, and it's the same with us. Our perseverance was proficient at times and we were 100% in the first half up until the regrettable sin-binning."


Warrington Wolves: Taylor-Wray; Thewlis, King, Hopoate, Smith; Williams, Sneyd; Yates, Walker, Byrne, Stone, Harrison, Currie.


Replacements: Sipley, Crowther, Philbin, Tanginoa.


Wakefield Trinity: Jowitt; Pratt, Scott, Hall, Myers; Sinfield, Trueman; McMeeken, Smoothy, Hamlin-Uele, Nikotemo, Vagana, Tevaga.


Replacements: Storton, Pitts, Faatili, Smith.


Referee: Liam Rush