Sunday, 14 March 2010

SKY SL MATCH - WARRINGTON V BRADFORD - MINI SUMMARY

WARRINGTON 33
BRADFORD 8


A brilliant 25 minutes of second half play blasted the Bulls aside at Halliwell Jones Stadium tonight.

Warrington trailed 8-6 at half-time to tries from Andy Lynch and Paul Sykes. Lynch gave the visitors the advantage after 24 minutes following a missed penalty goal attempt by Matt Orford, before the Wolves took the lead with a converted try after Adrian Morley provided a quick play-the-ball, Mickey Higham scooted and Richie Myler supported to go under the posts for Chris Bridge to goal.

Sykes put the Bulls in front three minutes before the break after a disguised pass Matt Orford.

There was little between the teams at the start of the second half with Bradford shading the opening exchanges after a break from Brett Kearney and three sets of possession on the Warrington line.

A similar period occured in the first half with the Wolves in possession but they couldn't push through. Neither could Bradford and their frustration led to mistakes with experienced Steve Menzies being guilty of  a couple of wild offloads.

It was the Bulls defence that eventually cracked when Ryan Atkins touched down after 52 minutes for Warrington after David Solomona's cut out ball and unselfish work from Matt King. Right until the last quarter this was a contest before 4 tries and 23 unanswered points secured a second successive win for the Wolves.

King touched down following great work by Louis Anderson and a long ball from Simon Grix and from the restart, King broke again before slowing for the supporting Atkins to take the ball at pace and blaze to the try line in spectacular fashion to complete an 80 metre raid. Bridge again goaled to make it 20-8 and the game was effectively over when an elusive run at dummy half by Michael Monaghan took him past some tired, targeted defenders to the try line. The boot of Bridge upped the score to 26-8 and Monaghan then potted a drop goal eight minutes from time before a high kick near the end led to King claiming his second try and Bridge added his fourth goal to confirm a 33-8 victory.

Warrington Tries: Myler (33), Atkins (53, 64), King (62, 78), Monaghan (68).
Goals: Bridge 4/6. Monaghan DG (72).

Bradford Tries: Lynch (24), Sykes (37).
Goals: Orford 0/2, Sykes 0/1.

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