{"id":59570,"date":"2026-08-28T02:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/super-league-wigan-warriors-46-0-hull-kr-hosts-go-top-on-night-of-tributes-for-sir-billy-boston\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T02:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:01:23","slug":"super-league-wigan-warriors-46-0-hull-kr-hosts-go-top-on-night-of-tributes-for-sir-billy-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/super-league-wigan-warriors-46-0-hull-kr-hosts-go-top-on-night-of-tributes-for-sir-billy-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Super League: Wigan Warriors 46-0 Hull KR &#8211; Hosts go top on night of tributes for Sir Billy Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wigan Warriors boss Matt Peet told BBC Radio Manchester:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a fitting occasion for Billy with everything the club did and the atmosphere in the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought the performance was befitting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The fans and the people in the crowd who&#8217;ve had a sad week, we have a responsibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hull KR head coach Willie Peters told BBC Radio Humberside:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really proud of the performance. We had a young side tonight and we didn&#8217;t stop fighting until the end. We played against a good team, who were extremely disciplined and give you nothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The inexperience we had in this team tonight, the main thing is that we said we need to fight for everything. We gave them a few things but they did the badge proud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve always said players have to earn the jersey, it&#8217;s not given to them. It was different circumstances tonight and there were probably three players who could have played but they&#8217;ve played a lot of rugby league.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wigan:<\/b> Field; Eckersley, Keighran, Wardle, Marshall; French, Smith; Havard, O&#8217;Neill, Thompson, McDermott, Partington, Ellis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Interchanges:<\/i> Walters, Mago, Kerr, O&#8217;Connor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hull KR:<\/b> Broadbent; Horne, Gorman, Booth, Kershaw; Mourgue, Charles; Sue, Leyland, Luckley, Martin, Dearlove, Lawton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Interchanges: <\/i>Amone, Fishwick, Murphy, Woods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Referee:<\/b> Aaron Moore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cwyzlpl32p4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wigan Warriors boss Matt Peet told BBC Radio Manchester: &#8220;It was a fitting occasion for Billy with everything the club did and the atmosphere in the ground. &#8220;I thought the performance was befitting. &#8220;The fans and the people in the crowd who&#8217;ve had a sad week, we have a responsibility.&#8221; Hull KR head coach Willie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1256,6189,2369,3971,206,1000,1403,2184,1020,4639,6039,5519],"class_list":["post-59570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-billy","tag-boston","tag-hosts","tag-hull","tag-league","tag-night","tag-sir","tag-super","tag-top","tag-tributes","tag-warriors","tag-wigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59572,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59570\/revisions\/59572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}