{"id":8677,"date":"2026-03-01T01:40:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/warrington-beat-wakefield-to-extend-winning-start\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:10:04","slug":"warrington-beat-wakefield-to-extend-winning-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/warrington-beat-wakefield-to-extend-winning-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Warrington beat Wakefield to extend winning start"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Published28 February 2026, 19:38 GMT<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#comments\">1 Comments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Updated 7 minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Betfred Super League<\/p>\n<p>Warrington Wolves (14) 27<\/p>\n<p>Tries: Sipley, Hopoate, Smith, King Goals: Sneyd 5 Drop goal: Sneyd<\/p>\n<p>Wakefield Trinity (2) 16<\/p>\n<p>Tries: Jowitt, Myers, Pratt Goals: Jowitt 2<\/p>\n<p>Warrington survived a strong Wakefield fightback in the second half to make it two wins from two in Super League.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolves, who were coming off the back of a blank weekend because of Hull Kingston Rovers&#x27; involvement in the World Club Challenge, seemed to have taken a firm grip on the game in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Tries from Toafofoa Sipley and Albert Hopoate, along with the reliable kicking of Marc Sneyd, had them 14-2 up at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Trinity, who chalked up their first win of the season at Huddersfield last week, came back well as Jake Trueman brilliantly created tries for Max Jowitt and Jayden Myers.<\/p>\n<p>Wire replied as Aussie newcomer Josh Smith crossed for his first try but Oliver Pratt&#x27;s score for Trinity set up a nervy ending, with the result settled by Sneyd&#x27;s drop goal and Toby King&#x27;s late try.<\/p>\n<p>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 defensive resilience to hold firm as Trinity came good.<\/p>\n<p>Wakefield had won the previous three meetings of these two, but they were soon in trouble as Sneyd slotted over a penalty and then video referee Chris Kendall overturned an on-field verdict of &quot;no try&quot; to give Sipley four points.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later, Hopoate supported Danny Walker&#x27;s break to streak away for another try for 14-0.<\/p>\n<p>Wire seemed to have made a costly error as they responded to strong Wakefield pressure right at the end of the half by committing repeat offences which saw Sipley sin-binned and Jowitt kick the resulting penalty to give his side a toe-hold.<\/p>\n<p>That became a firmer platform early in the second half as Trinity made use of the extra man, Trueman slinging a fine pass over the top for Jowitt to score in the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Sipley&#x27;s first act on returning to the field was a ruck infringement which led to Trueman coming up with an even better looping cut-out pass and Myers finished to cut the lead to just four points.<\/p>\n<p>That spurred Wire into action after a drop in tempo and Sneyd&#x27;s boot took control as he chipped the ball out to Smith, playing first-class rugby for the first time, to score his first try, which Sneyd converted and then added a penalty to give his side breathing space.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt then got on the end of a fine kick by Jack Sinfield to score in the corner and when Jowitt brilliantly nailed the tough conversion, the game was back in the balance.<\/p>\n<p>Wakefield seemed certain to score as Myers streaked for the corner but 20-year-old full-back Cai Taylor-Wray, who wowed the crowd with his attacking prowess against St Helens, produced a magnificent tackle to bundle him into touch and retain the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Sneyd dropped a goal and then chipped another delicate kick to the corner for Smith to grab and pass in mid-air for King to remove any doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Warrington Wolves: Taylor-Wray; Thewlis, King, Hopoate, Smith; Williams, Sneyd; Yates, Walker, Byrne, Stone, Harrison, Currie.<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: Sipley, Crowther, Philbin, Tanginoa.<\/p>\n<p>Wakefield Trinity: Jowitt; Pratt, Scott, Hall, Myers; Sinfield, Trueman; McMeeken, Smoothy, Hamlin-Uele, Nikotemo, Vagana, Tevaga.<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: Storton, Pitts, Faatili, Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Referee: Liam Rush<\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/rugby-league\/teams\/warrington\">Warrington Wolves<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/rugby-league\/teams\/wakefield\">Wakefield Trinity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/rugby-league\">Rugby League<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warrington beat Wakefield to extend winning startImage source, SWPixImage caption, Josh Smith scored his first Super League try to help Warrington beat WakefieldPublished28 February 2026, 19:38 GMT1 C&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}