{"id":549131,"date":"2026-04-24T23:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549131\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T23:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:45:08","slug":"george-williams-warrington-wolves-england-captain-to-have-neck-surgery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549131\/","title":{"rendered":"George Williams: Warrington Wolves &#038; England captain to have neck surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The domestic season will end with the Super League Grand Final on Saturday, 3 October, with England&#8217;s first match of the World Cup against Tonga in Perth, Australia scheduled for 17 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams has been captain of England since 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brian McDermott, speaking on Thursday after his appointment as England head coach, had said he &#8220;did not have any intentions&#8221; to change captains prior to the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking before kick-off, Warrington head coach Sam Burgess said: &#8220;George will probably go for surgery at some point in the next week or two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s unfortunate for George and the club. There are a number of ways to look at it so we&#8217;ve decided to take the positive route. Given the nature of where the injury is, we&#8217;re happy that we&#8217;ve got hold of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hopefully he can make a great recovery and we&#8217;ll see him back [in action] &#8211; if it&#8217;s not this year, then hopefully next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The domestic season will end with the Super League Grand Final on Saturday, 3 October, with England&#8217;s first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-549131","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\/549131","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=549131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}