{"id":518372,"date":"2026-04-07T22:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518372\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:04:08","slug":"ben-currie-signs-warrington-wolves-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518372\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Currie signs Warrington Wolves contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  With The Wire at the top of Super League, looking forward to a Challenge Cup quarter-final on Saturday and having a raft of young talent coming through the system, he sees a bright future and has extended his contract.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 31-year-old, Wolves\u2019 current longest serving player, will take his stay at the club to 17 years after signing for a further two seasons as a reward for form that has him playing as well as he has ever done.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt\u2019s great to get it over the line. It\u2019s a process I didn\u2019t want to take too long because there\u2019s not really anywhere else I want to be at the moment,\u201d said Currie.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI\u2019m really happy, for me and my family. To stay at this club for another two years is exciting times.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI came here as a 16-year-old when I joined the Academy and ever since then it\u2019s felt like home.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI\u2019ve moved here, had kids here, and I wouldn\u2019t want to be anywhere else.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n    The story continues&#8230; \ud83d\udc3a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FqJWdRAiVB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/FqJWdRAiVB<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    \u2014 Warrington Wolves (@WarringtonRLFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WarringtonRLFC\/status\/2041578542970884302?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 7, 2026<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n  Head coach Sam Burgess has got the best out of Currie since making the call last year to feature the England international down the middle as a ball-playing loose-forward as opposed to wider out as a second-rower.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He must be one of the first names on the teamsheet on a match day, with Burgess saying: \u201cHe\u2019s part of the fabric of this club, a consistent performer each week and someone who drives standards every day within the group.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHe\u2019s a quality bloke and a valuable asset for the club.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Since making his debut aged 17 against the then-Salford City Reds in 2012, Currie has progressed to make 320 appearances for The Wire.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He recently crossed for try number 100 away to York Knights, confirming his place among the exclusive club of just 23 players who have managed the same feat.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Currie follows in the footsteps of Luke Yates, another high-performance forward whose terms were due to run out at the end of 2026 but signed a new two-year deal in February.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With The Wire at the top of Super League, looking forward to a Challenge Cup quarter-final on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-518372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518372","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=518372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}