{"id":237223,"date":"2025-07-04T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/237223\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T11:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:01:09","slug":"finlay-irwin-joins-vikings-for-remainder-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/237223\/","title":{"rendered":"FINLAY IRWIN JOINS VIKINGS FOR REMAINDER OF 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Widnes Vikings are pleased to announce the arrival of young forward Finlay Irwin, who has joined the club until the end of the season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Irwin, 20,\u00a0operates primarily in the back row or at loose forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Having initially played for Warrington at Scholarship level, the young forward joined Wigan, where he went on to play at academy and reserve level until 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He then took the opportunity to go down under and play with the Brisbane Tigers. He now returns from Australia to link up with Allan Coleman and the Vikings on a deal until the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Head Coach Allan Coleman said: \u201cYoung Finlay was a part of the Wigan academy and reserves system for a good few years, and he\u2019s been playing down in Australia recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI know his dad well, and when we heard he was coming back to the UK, we thought it was a great opportunity to get him in until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHe\u2019s a talented back row, so we\u2019ll be able to get a good look at him now and hopefully he\u2019ll be able to earn himself a contract for next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Irwin will be available for selection this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets for Sunday\u2019s clash with Oldham are available <a href=\"https:\/\/widnesvikings.co.uk\/venue-changed-for-oldham-clash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Widnes Vikings are pleased to announce the arrival of young forward Finlay Irwin, who has joined the club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-237223","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\/114794626129311001","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237223","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=237223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}