{"id":219304,"date":"2025-06-27T18:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/219304\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T18:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:44:16","slug":"vikings-sign-ben-condon-until-end-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/219304\/","title":{"rendered":"VIKINGS SIGN BEN CONDON UNTIL END OF 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Widnes Vikings are excited to announce the immediate signing of Ben Condon on a deal until the end of the season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Australian forward has made 17 appearances in the NRL for North Queensland Cowboys and Manly Sea Eagles, scoring 5 tries.<\/p>\n<p>He also brings a wealth of experience in the Queensland and New South Wales cups, having made over 70 appearances for the Northern Pride, Mackay Cutters, and Blacktown Workers.<\/p>\n<p>Having initially signed a deal with Leigh Leopards ahead of the current season, an injury derailed Condon\u2019s arrival in the UK to join the Super League club. Having now recovered from injury, he pens a deal with the Vikings for the remainder of 2025, with an option for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Queensland native operates primarily as a prop or second row. He is set to arrive in the UK on Tuesday and will go straight into contention for our clash with Oldham next Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>On his arrival, Condon said:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m so excited to be part of such an awesome club and community, I can\u2019t wait to get over there and rip in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI want to thank Allan, Stuart, and the board for organising to get me over there so quickly. I can\u2019t wait to meet everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach, Allan Coleman said: \u201cI\u2019m absolutely over the moon, there\u2019s been a lot of work behind the scenes for a couple of weeks now to get this over the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt\u2019s really exciting to get Ben, he\u2019s probably the highest profile player we\u2019ve brought to the club since I\u2019ve been here. He\u2019s a giant of a man, a tough, no-nonsense forward who won\u2019t take a back step. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cBringing him in typifies exactly where we want to get to as a club, and he comes in at the right time when we\u2019re really thin on the ground for bodies, so it\u2019s fantastic to get him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Vikings Ben!<\/p>\n<p>Signings like this are made possible due to the fantastic Widnes VIPS scheme in place to assist in strengthening the Vikings\u2019 squad. If fans wish to sign up for the scheme, they can do so\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.widnesvips.co.uk\/join-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets for tomorrow\u2019s clash with Toulouse at the DCBL Stadium are available <a href=\"https:\/\/widnesvikings.co.uk\/tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Widnes Vikings are excited to announce the immediate signing of Ben Condon on a deal until the end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-219304","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\/114756810613053606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219304","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=219304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}