{"id":406929,"date":"2026-02-04T06:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406929\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:43:10","slug":"george-williams-warrington-wolves-captain-to-return-to-nrl-at-end-of-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406929\/","title":{"rendered":"George Williams: Warrington Wolves captain to return to NRL at end of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warrington Wolves have confirmed captain George Williams will leave at the end of the season to join a team in the NRL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The England international half-back, 31, joined the Wire in July 2021 after a spell with Canberra Raiders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Wigan man has scored 37 tries in 103 appearances for Warrington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Warrington has been a huge part of my life and I&#8217;ve loved every minute of my time at the club,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/warringtonwolves.com\/news\/2026\/february\/Williams-to-depart-the-Wire-at-end-of-2026\/\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Captaining this team and leading the boys out each week is something I&#8217;ll always be incredibly proud of.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Myself and the club have been very open with each other throughout, and I&#8217;m grateful for the understanding and backing they&#8217;ve shown me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Burgess&#8217; men finished a disappointing eighth in Super League last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They start the new campaign with a trip to Sheffield Eagles in the Challenge Cup on Friday, before opening their league season with a home derby against St Helens on Friday, 13 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warrington Wolves have confirmed captain George Williams will leave at the end of the season to join a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-406929","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\/406929","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=406929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}