{"id":468002,"date":"2026-03-10T15:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/468002\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:55:07","slug":"bevan-french-wigan-warriors-stand-off-out-for-four-months-with-hamstring-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/468002\/","title":{"rendered":"Bevan French: Wigan Warriors stand-off out for four months with hamstring tear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wigan Warriors stand-off Bevan French will be out for around four months having torn his hamstring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">French had a scan following the injury, which occurred late in their victory against Toulouse on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Super League leaders have confirmed he will now be sidelined for 16 weeks, ruling him out until early July with around 11 games of the 2026 campaign remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">French, who usually plays at stand-off, had been filling in at full-back after Jai Field was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cvg1j38evn5o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruled out due to appendicitis<\/a> last week, giving the club a positional headache.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He seems alright, he&#8217;s a positive character,&#8221; head coach Matt Peet told BBC Radio Manchester. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was some frustration in chatting to him on the way home. He&#8217;s got himself in great shape. He felt like he had some good form ahead of him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s quite philosophical, Bevan. He quickly flips a switch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now he knows the timeframe and the schedule for his recovery, like most professionals he can get his head down now and focus on the present.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigan Warriors stand-off Bevan French will be out for around four months having torn his hamstring. French had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-468002","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\/468002","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=468002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}