{"id":459080,"date":"2026-03-05T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459080\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:05:08","slug":"matty-ashton-warrington-wolves-winger-in-line-for-return-after-long-term-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459080\/","title":{"rendered":"Matty Ashton: Warrington Wolves winger in line for return after long-term knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warrington Wolves winger Matty Ashton could return from long-term injury to face Castleford Tigers on 21 March, head coach Sam Burgess has said.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament during their Challenge Cup semi-final victory over Leigh Leopards<\/a> in May 2025.<\/p>\n

Burgess clarified that the England international is not far away from full fitness, however.<\/p>\n

“He’s training fully, he’s doing everything with us and has for four weeks now,” the 37-year-old told BBC Radio Merseyside.<\/p>\n

“He missed two or three days last week and he was pretty ill so with that he lost a bit of weight.”<\/p>\n

Warrington are enjoying a positive start to their Super League season, having won both of their opening games against St Helens and Wakefield Trinity.<\/p>\n

With the side already full of confidence, Burgess is not looking to rush Ashton’s recovery.<\/p>\n

“With Matty, the longer we leave it, the risk units become less. So the illness, give it a chance to go out for another two or three weeks and we will take risk away from him,” Burgess added.<\/p>\n

“He’s keen to play, he’s ready to play – we are just finding that balance.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warrington Wolves winger Matty Ashton could return from long-term injury to face Castleford Tigers on 21 March, head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-459080","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\/459080","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=459080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}