Briers drops in with


last gasp victory

by Gary Skentelbery picture George Thornton

A LAST gasp drop goal from skipper Lee Briers gave Warrington the spoils with a 25-24 victory over last season's beaten grand finalists, who are still looking for their first win of the season.
Hull raced in to a 12 point lead while Prop Paul Rauhihi was in the sin bin after being shown the yellow card for apparently running into referee Steve Ganson.
Hull took advantage with tries from Richard Whiting and Lee Radford - both converted by Paul Cooke , which put Hull 12-0 after 18 minutes.
But tries from Michael Sullivan and Briers, plus a briers penalty levelled the scores by the interval.
Warrington pressure eventually paid off with tries from Jon Clarke and Vinnie Anderson but the Wolves, who were guilty of giving away too many penalties allowed the visitors beakc into the match with tries from Gareth Raynor and Matt Sing which levelled matters with six minutes left.
However Briers, who had already missed one drop goal attempt when the Wolves had a 12 point lead, rifled over the match-winning one-pointer, three minutes from time.
Warrington managed to hang on for a morale boosting victory.
After the match Head Coach Paul Cullen said he was pleased with the victory but disappointed with some of the performance, especially the number of penalties given away for technical offences. "I am not saying every penalty was justified but we need to look at the mistakes we are making which almost proved costly," he said.

Picture shows Martin Gleeson breaking through the Hull defence.

 

Warrington (12) 25
Tries: Sullivan, Briers, Clarke, Anderson. Goals: Briers 4. Drop-goal: Briers.

Hull (12) 24
Tries: Whiting, Radford, Raynor, Sing. Goals: Cooke 4