{"id":173564,"date":"2025-06-10T18:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/173564\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T18:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:06:14","slug":"liam-kirk-departs-vikings-widnes-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/173564\/","title":{"rendered":"LIAM KIRK DEPARTS VIKINGS &#8211; Widnes Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Widnes Vikings can confirm that Liam Kirk has left the club<\/b><b> with immediate effect.<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"285\" data-end=\"436\">Kirk, 28, joined the Vikings ahead of the 2024 season from Sheffield Eagles and, along with teammate Martyn Reilly, made the regular journey from Yorkshire to train and represent the club.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"438\" data-end=\"715\">Following Martyn\u2019s recent departure, the club has agreed to release Liam from his contract due to the increased demands of travelling alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Head Coach Allan Coleman said: \u201cI spoke with Liam after Martyn Reilly left the club, obviously they were travelling partners coming over from Leeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cSo it was a massive commitment for him to do solo, and he felt he was going to struggle doing that journey on his own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt was a difficult conversation, but I really appreciate his honesty, he\u2019s been great for us, and more than anything, he\u2019s a really good person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He added: \u201cIt\u2019s a real shame to have lost him, but we wish him luck for the future. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe\u2019ll be looking to get in some of the additions we wanted, but for now, we\u2019ve just got to focus on the players we\u2019ve got with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"717\" data-end=\"918\">Everyone at Widnes Vikings would like to thank Liam for his efforts during his time at the club and wish him all the very best for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Widnes Vikings can confirm that Liam Kirk has left the club with immediate effect. Kirk, 28, joined the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-173564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114660402093822041","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}