{"id":301976,"date":"2025-07-29T19:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301976\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:23:09","slug":"vikings-sign-jon-bennison-on-two-week-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301976\/","title":{"rendered":"VIKINGS SIGN JON BENNISON ON TWO WEEK LOAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Widnes Vikings are pleased to announce the signing of Jon Bennison on an initial two-week loan from St Helens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Widnes-born winger brings plenty of Super League experience, having featured 68 times for St Helens, scoring 26 tries.<\/p>\n<p>With the Vikings set to be without winger Rhys Williams for several weeks due to a pre-arranged engagement, we have brought in the former Grand Final winner to provide cover on the wings.<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach Allan Coleman said:\u00a0\u201cObviously, Rhys Williams is going to be unavailable for a bit due to a personal engagement that we found out about at the start of the season, so we always planned to bring in some cover if needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been building a good relationship with Saints, and the big thing for us is that Jon is a Widnes lad. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHe\u2019s been part of this club as a young kid, and I know for a fact he wants to play for Widnes, which is massive for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cHe brings a lot of Super League experience and will add a lot of quality for us out on the wing. So we\u2019d like to thank St Helens for letting us have him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bennison will be available for selection in our upcoming fixtures with Sheffield and Batley.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get your tickets for the Vikings clash with Sheffield <a href=\"https:\/\/sheffieldeagles.ticketco.events\/uk\/en\/e\/sheffield_eagles_vs_widnes_vikings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Widnes Vikings are pleased to announce the signing of Jon Bennison on an initial two-week loan from St&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-301976","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\/114938157708761419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301976","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=301976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}