{"id":527917,"date":"2026-04-13T04:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/527917\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:30:12","slug":"tom-johnstone-wakefield-trinity-winger-on-impact-of-ashes-man-handling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/527917\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Johnstone: Wakefield Trinity winger on impact of Ashes &#8216;man-handling&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I made a couple of changes and put on three quarters of a stone to a stone to try and be a bit bigger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I felt like I got a bit manhandled and I never want that again. I just felt it was men against boys at certain points, especially for me personally, and I didn&#8217;t enjoy that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I feel a lot stronger in my carries and still move pretty well. It was something I decided to switch up and so far it&#8217;s going pretty well for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wakefield, who are attempting to reach a first Challenge Cup semi-final since 2016, welcome a Wigan side who had enjoyed a flawless start to the campaign before suffering back-to-back defeats by Huddersfield Giants and St Helens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Johnstone said Trinity will be prepared for a top-level showing from the 21-time Challenge Cup winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re a massive club and they&#8217;ve had a lot of success over the years and they&#8217;re always there or thereabouts,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a bit uncharacteristic of them to lose two on the bounce, but we&#8217;re expecting nothing but the best Wigan to turn up on Sunday and we&#8217;re going to have to be at our best to progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s what you&#8217;ve got to do if you want to win a competition, you&#8217;ve got to beat the best teams in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I made a couple of changes and put on three quarters of a stone to a stone to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-527917","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\/527917","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=527917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}