{"id":271140,"date":"2025-11-19T06:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271140\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:27:09","slug":"stefan-ratchfords-post-playing-warrington-role-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271140\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefan Ratchford&#8217;s post-playing Warrington role revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Warrington Wolves&#8217; popular utility man brought the curtain down on a superb career at the end of 2025, finishing up having made 359 appearances for The Wire since joining from Salford Red Devils in 2012.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  An off-field role at The Halliwell Jones Stadium had been earmarked for him upon his retirement and now, the club have confirmed exactly what that will entail.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Stefan Ratchford on the training pitch as a coach during Warrington Wolves&#8217; pre-season training (Image: Joe Richardson)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is the club&#8217;s crop of younger players, about whom there is much internal and external excitement, who will be getting the benefit of Ratchford&#8217;s vast experience in his new role as &#8220;transitions coach.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As the title suggests, the former England international will aid young players in their steps from age-group rugby league into the first team.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He will also be responsible for overseeing loan moves for those players as they continue their development towards being Super League talents for the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warrington Wolves&#8217; popular utility man brought the curtain down on a superb career at the end of 2025,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-271140","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\/271140","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=271140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}