{"id":258176,"date":"2025-11-12T06:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/258176\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T06:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:11:17","slug":"steve-mcnamara-gets-to-work-after-warrington-wolves-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/258176\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve McNamara gets to work after Warrington Wolves move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Having joined The Wire&#8217;s coaching staff for 2026, Steve McNamara has been pictured on the grass at the club&#8217;s Padgate training centre for the first time as the players crack on with preparations for the new season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>New coach Steve McNamara watches on (Image: Joe Richardson)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Steve McNamara encourages the players during pre-season training having joined the Warrington Wolves coaching staff (Image: Joe Richardson)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  With pre-season having officially started last week, a larger cohort of senior players reported back to the club on Monday to get their first block of training underway.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  New signings Liam Byrne and Toafofoa Sipley are not currently thought to be among them having been given slightly extended breaks, with Byrne having featured extensively in Wigan Warriors&#8217; run to the Super League Grand Final. Both are expected to train for the first time next week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Check out more pictures from pre-season below\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Albert Hopoate, Ben Currie and Josh Thewlis are put through their paces (Image: Joe Richardson)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Josh Smith (Image: Joe Richardson)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>James Harrison (Image: Joe Richardson)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Josh Smith (Image: Joe Richardson)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Marc Sneyd (Image: Joe Richardson)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Jordy Crowther (Image: Joe Richardson)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>James Bentley (Image: Joe Richardson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having joined The Wire&#8217;s coaching staff for 2026, Steve McNamara has been pictured on the grass at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-258176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258176","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=258176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}