Warrington Wolves Under-19s triumph in fifteen-try rout against Newcastle Thunder

WOLVES’ youngsters dominated a try-fest at the weekend as they thrashed Newcastle Thunder at Victoria Park Arena.

Lee Briers’ side ran in fifteen tries, including four for scrum-half Morgan Smith and two each for Charlie Pythian and Lewis Turner, to record their fourth successive win.

George Shaw, Harry Reardon, Harvey Livett, Pat Moran, Jordan Williams, Brad Stanway and Liam Aspin also crossed as the visitors were comprehensively beaten.

The rout started in the ninth minute when Smith and Livett combined well to put Pythian over on the left, but there was a set-back shortly after when hooker Reardon was sin-binned for a tip tackle.

The numerical disadvantage didn’t affect the hosts as, just before the midway point of the half, a good break from dummy half by Aspin was carried on by Pat Moran, who made twenty metres before offloading for Shaw to force his way over wide out on the left.

Aspin was again involved seven minutes later as he hit the line and put Turner in to squeeze over in the right corner.

Straight from the restart, loose forward Louis Wainwright made a superb forty-metre break down the middle that split the Thunder defence and he found Smith in support who raced forty metres and managed to hold off a chasing defender to score.

Wire moved further clear when a lovely offload from second row Ellis Gillam enabled Livett to break through the line and he found Phythian on his inside to score under the posts.

Just before half-time, Livett stole the ball one-on-one and a flowing move ended in Reardon scoring under the sticks from dummy-half, with Smith’s conversion making the score 30-0 at the break.

There was to be no let-up from Wolves in the second half and Livett added his name to the scoresheet four minutes into it when he blocked a Newcastle kick before picking up and racing 60 metres to score.

Five minutes later, Livett was again instrumental as he went down the blind side from a scrum on the half way line and found Turner who brushed off three defenders on a fine run to score in the right corner.

Wolves continued to dominate and Smith grabbed his second when he handed off five defenders to score on the right before Moran scored right of the posts to bring up the half-century.

Smith completed his hat-trick when Jack Fox’s kick ahead bounced kindly for him to collect and score on the left.

Fox’s mazy run then set up another try as Stanway kicked out wide from the play-the-ball and Turner collected before putting Williams over.

The hosts scored three tries in the final three minutes to pile further misery on the beleaguered visitors, with Smith going over for his fourth try before a fine offload from Williams put Stanway over next to the posts.

Aspin linked into the line to score on the left with the final play of the game to complete a rampant victory for Wolves, whose next game is against St Helens on Friday evening at the Victoria Park Arena, kick off 7pm.

Team: Aspin; Turner, Roper, Pythian, Fox; Livett, Smith; Tankard, Reardon, Moran, Gillam, Shaw, Wainwright. Subs: Robson, Pinder, Stanway, Williams