{"id":202182,"date":"2025-10-15T16:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/202182\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:28:14","slug":"the-first-one-that-truly-stung-junior-nsemba-makes-wigan-warriors-vow-and-sends-england-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/202182\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The first one that truly stung&#8217; &#8211; Junior Nsemba makes Wigan Warriors vow and sends England message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"787\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AM20430.jpg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" alt=\"Wigan Warriors\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Junior Nsemba has taken to social media to insist that Wigan Warriors will bounce back from their 2025 Grand Final defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors lost 24-6 to Hull KR in Saturday\u2019s showpiece event at Old Trafford to finish the 2025 Super League season empty handed. Matt Peet\u2019s side were the favourites going into the clash, but they could have no complaints about the result, with Rovers turning up to avenge their 2024 loss to Wigan and complete a treble.<\/p>\n<p>It was a hugely disappointing night for the Cherry and Whites and Nsemba received another blow on Sunday afternoon when he was informed by Shaun Wane that he would not be included in this autumn\u2019s England squad to face Australia.<\/p>\n<p>With the dust settling on the events of the weekend, Nsemba has taken to social media to outline his thoughts on his first loss as a first-teamer that \u2018truly stung\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>However, the back-rower has vowed that Wigan will \u2018come back defiant\u2019 from their Old Trafford setback, while also sending a message to those England players set to face of against the Kangaroos later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Wigan Warriors\u2019 Junior Nsemba takes to Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe disappointment is clear to see,\u201d Nsemba wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPzCnfSDaUE\/?igsh=MXVnaGczc3M3N2RrMQ%3D%3D&amp;img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. \u201cMy second season brought a lot of emotions and even more lessons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a product of this club and this town, and it fills me with so much pride to pull on the shirt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know what this club means to you all\u2014I never take that for granted. That\u2019s why this weekend was a tough one to take.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the first one that truly stung at this level, so I\u2019m processing it, learning from it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn true Wigan style, we come back defiant. Off-season work starts now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShoutout to my teammates, the coaches and staff\u2014Radders, Brooksy, and especially Matty\u2014for showing me daily what professionalism looks like, but more importantly, what a good human being looks like. To my mum, dad, stepdad, little brother and sisters\u2014you\u2019re my why. Always.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m extremely proud to call Wigan Warriors my club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to take the opportunity here to celebrate our women\u2019s team and Denis [Betts]\u2014what an unbelievable season!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd to the boys stepping up for England, I\u2019m rooting for you man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1759084633_634_srl-logo.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Junior Nsemba has taken to social media to insist that Wigan Warriors will bounce back from their 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-202182","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","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}