Warrington 80-10 Hull FC: Bryson Goodwin scores five tries in Super League victory
Last Updated: 31/08/18 6:13am
Warrington bounced back from the heartbreak of their Challenge Cup final defeat with a ruthless 80-10 demolition of a Hull side in freefall.
The Wolves showed no sign of a hangover just five days after their Wembley loss as they romped to a 14-try victory that keeps them clear of fast-finishing Huddersfield, their next opponents in the Super 8s, in the chase for fourth spot.
Only forwards Ben Westwood and Harvey Livett were missing from Warrington's Wembley line-up but their performance was unrecognisable as they racked up their highest ever Super League score against the Black and Whites.
Centre Bryson Goodwin scored five tries, one short of the Super League record held by Bradford winger Lesley Vainikolo, and fellow Australian Tyrone Roberts scored one and succeeded with 12 of his 14 conversion attempts to finish with a 28-point haul.
Hull, who were without seven regulars through injury, looked like a side desperate for the end of the season as they crashed to a seventh successive defeat and conceded the most points in their history.
They lacked creativity in the absence of Albert Kelly, Marc Sneyd and Jake Connor and their defence was embarrassingly threadbare at times.
Former England winger Josh Charnley, starved of the ball at Wembley, opened the scoring inside three minutes with his 23rd try on his 22nd appearance for the Wolves after a superb offload in midfield by prop Mike Cooper created the opening and set the pattern for the match.
Hull actually drew level six minutes later from their first attack, but it was something of a gift as winger Fetuli Talanoa pounced on a handling error by Toby King, who more than made up for his fumble.
King latched onto scrum-half Roberts' crossfield kick for his first try and Goodwin touched down twice in eight minutes thanks to the creative skills of Stefan Ratchford and Kevin Brown.
King grabbed his second after Hull full-back Jamie Shaul fumbled Roberts' kick and loose forward Jack Hughes proved unstoppable from close range, taking three helpless defenders over the line with him for Warrington's sixth try of the first half.
Roberts kicked his fifth conversion to make it 34-6 at the break and Goodwin doubled his first-half tally of tries within five minutes of the restart.
The former South Sydney man got on the end of a grubber kick from hooker Daryl Clark and finished off a counter-attack by Brown.
In a break in the one-way traffic centre Josh Griffin pulled a try back for the visitors after 49 minutes but they never looked capable of making a game of it.
Substitute forward Joe Philbin caught the Hull defence napping with a try from dummy half and Charnley sped over at the corner for his second.
Hull were a shambles by then and their defence cracked four more times in the last 10 minutes as Roberts, Tom Lineham and Ratchford went past paper-thin tackling before Goodwin raced onto Lineham's kick to take his tally to five.
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