{"id":461420,"date":"2026-03-06T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/461420\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:29:08","slug":"huddersfield-giants-sign-connor-wrench-after-retirement-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/461420\/","title":{"rendered":"Huddersfield Giants sign Connor Wrench after retirement u-turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Huddersfield Giants have signed former Warrington Wolves centre Connor Wrench, seven months after he retired from the sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wrench, 24, quit the game in August two days after playing for the Wire in a defeat at Huddersfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He suffered anterior cruciate ligament injuries in both 2022 and 2024 and said he had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c3v30ewngr0o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;contemplating retiring for a while&#8221;<\/a> when he announced his decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His deal with the Giants, who have lost their first three Super League games this season, runs through to the end of 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Connor was really keen to get back into the sport and there was a few offers on the table for him, soon as we found out he was available we got in contact straight away and got the deal wrapped up,&#8221; head coach Luke Robinson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.giantsrl.com\/article\/9778\/wrench-answers-giants-call\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His best years are ahead of him, he&#8217;s a young English centre who we&#8217;re really excited to have in and around the group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Giants have said Wrench could make his debut in their Challenge Cup game against Hull KR on Saturday, 14 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huddersfield Giants have signed former Warrington Wolves centre Connor Wrench, seven months after he retired from the sport.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-461420","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\/461420","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=461420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}