{"id":25718,"date":"2026-02-27T12:45:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=25718"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:45:25","slug":"wigan-scary-and-ruthless-warriors-in-mood-to-regain-super-league-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=25718","title":{"rendered":"Wigan: &#8216;Scary&#8217; and &#8216;ruthless&#8217; Warriors in mood to regain Super League crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For captain Liam Farrell, this is a 17th Super League campaign with the Cherry-and-Whites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has a cupboard full of silverware but it does not stop the 35-year-old from wiping the slate clean every year and going again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Farrell has stepped into the centres after an early injury <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/ce3gqnz74zwo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">to Jake Wardle<\/a> and he has noticed how quickly his side has come out of the traps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am hoping it&#8217;s only the start,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not usually a good sign if you&#8217;re playing so well at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m hoping we&#8217;re going to improve from this. That&#8217;s a scary thought if we&#8217;re going to improve from here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hopefully we do. We&#8217;ll take on the year and see where we end up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And if Wigan can step it up from these early weeks, that indeed is a scary prospect for Super League&#8217;s other 13 clubs. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cg7en1l4kj1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For captain Liam Farrell, this&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}