{"id":429370,"date":"2026-02-16T22:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429370\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T22:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:47:08","slug":"barrow-raiders-championship-leaders-aiming-high-says-boss-paul-crarey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429370\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrow Raiders: Championship leaders aiming high says boss Paul Crarey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Super League expanded to 14 teams, the Championship and League 1 have been merged for 2026, although of the original 21 clubs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c23r4jk817ko\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Featherstone Rovers <\/a>went into administration and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cy8lny9l425o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Halifax Panthers <\/a>have been liquidated to reduce it to 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But for Crarey, it is a case of developing a &#8220;no fear&#8221; attitude among his players, with a trip to Sheffield Eagles next up on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll go there without fear, as whatever happens there&#8217;s no promotion and relegation,&#8221; he said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s about enjoying yourself, trying to play some nice rugby and entertaining what is a growing crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t put too much pressure on winning and losing. That comes with the enjoyment part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to win all year. That&#8217;s impossible in the modern game and the way people are picking up players. But what we can do is we can compete all year.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Super League expanded to 14 teams, the Championship and League 1 have been merged for 2026, although&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-429370","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\/429370","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=429370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}