Wolves pay the penalty!

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WARRINGTON Wolves missed the chance of going joint top of the league as they were out muscled 23-10 at Bradford.
The Bulls only outscored the Wolves by three tries to two but had a far superior kicking game thanks to the inspirational Paul Deacon.
Chris Hicks continued his rich vein of try scoring for the Wolves with Paul Johnson also scoring for Warrington but they were unable to join champions Leeds at the top of the table as they fell to their second defeat.
The Bulls tries came from Paul Sykes, Ben Jeffries and Sam Burgess.
As well as kicking five goals and one drop-goal, Deacon provided a superb grubber kick for Burgess’ try just before half time.
Warrington simply had no answer to Deacon’s kicking game.
It looked ominous for the Wolves from the start when Lee Briers dropped Deacon’s swirling kick-off, and the Bulls were quick to capitalise when Deacon booted over a simple penalty after Warrington were caught offside in the next set.
Bradford extended their lead when Terry Newton and Jeffries combined to send Sykes through for his fifth try of the campaign.
But the Wolves hit back when Louis Anderson’s superb pass gave his brother Vinnie enough space to feed Paul Johnson.
Back came Bradford and Burgess dived on to the loose ball after Michael Monaghan deflected Deacon’s grubber to give the hosts an eight-point lead at half time.
The second half started in similar fashion to the first, Deacon notching a 40-metre penalty in the opening minute before adding another when Ben Westwood was penalised for a dangerous tackle.
Warrington came back when Chris Hicks, who has scored in every round of Super League this season, raced on to Briers’ clever kick to the corner.
Hicks’ try set up a tense finish, despite Briers missing the touchline conversion.
But Jeffries completed the win with a 70-metre burst, after intercepting Matt King’s wayward pass.


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