{"id":67495,"date":"2025-08-14T23:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67495\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T23:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:01:08","slug":"matt-dufty-and-star-forward-miss-out-as-warrington-wolves-v-catalans-dragons-team-news-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67495\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Dufty and star forward miss out as Warrington Wolves v Catalans Dragons team news confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/OH_8889.jpg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" alt=\"Warrington Wolves fullback Dufty set for stint on sidelines\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Sam Burgess has made his call on Matt Dufty after dropping the full-back last week, with team news for Warrington Wolves v Catalans Dragons confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian full-back did not feature against Wigan Warriors last Friday with head coach Burgess confirming that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriousaboutrl.com\/rugby-league-news-warrington-wolves-coach-explains-matt-dufty-omission-discipline-issue-highlighted-107184\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dufty had been dropped as a result of an internal discipline issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Sky Sports ahead of the game, Burgess explained: \u201cIt\u2019s an internal discipline thing. Matt missed a session earlier in the week and it\u2019s happened to other players throughout the year so we sit him down and he\u2019ll miss a game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burgess did jokingly add that the full-back had been \u201cbehaving himself\u201d and that he\u2019d be back for the game against Catalans Dragons, for which he was named in the 21-man squad.<\/p>\n<p>Sam<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriousaboutrl.com\/rugby-league-news-warrington-wolves-v-catalans-dragons-team-news-as-sam-burgess-makes-two-changes-107289\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Burgess had made two changes to his 21-man squad<\/a> with Connor Wrench and Adam Holroyd returning whilst young full-back Cai Taylor-Wray dropped out, suggesting Dufty could be back in the fray but that\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n<p>Warrington Wolves team news<\/p>\n<p>Matt Dufty is omitted from the matchday squad for a second week running with Stefan Ratchford once again filling in at full-back.<\/p>\n<p>Dufty is not the only key player missing with Paul Vaughan another notable absentee and that\u2019s seen NRL loanee Ryan Matterson moved into the starting prop role alongside Luke Yates.<\/p>\n<p>Both Adam Holroyd and Connor Wrench feature after returning to the 21-man squad.<\/p>\n<p>Warrington Wolves XIII: Stefan Ratchford; Josh Thewlis, Zack Gardner, Connor Wrench, Jake Thewlis; George Williams, Marc Sneyd; Luke Yates, Danny Walker, Ryan Matterson; Sam Stone, Lachlan Fitzgibbon, Ben Currie<\/p>\n<p>Interchanges: Sam Powell, Joe Philbin, Luke Thomas, Adam Holroyd<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udccb Tonight\u2019s line-up to take on the Dragons <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NDid9Db2e3\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/NDid9Db2e3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Warrington Wolves (@WarringtonRLFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WarringtonRLFC\/status\/1956045655383675096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catalans Dragons team news<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Romano drops out and is replaced by Reimis Smith with Nick Cotric also returning in place of youngster Leo Darrelatour.<\/p>\n<p>As for the forward pack, Chris Satae starts over Romain Navarette whilst Tevita Pangai Jr is named on the bench in favour of Tariq Sims.<\/p>\n<p>Catalans Dragons XIII: Guillermo Aispuro-Bichet; Tommy Makinson, Matthieu Laguerre, Reimis Smith, Nick Cotric; Luke Keary, Theo Fages; Franck Maria, Alrix Da Costa, Chris Satae; Benjamin Garcia, Bayley Sironen, Oliver Partington<\/p>\n<p>Interchanges: Tevita Pangai Jr, Romain Navarette, Jordan Dezaria, Denive Balmforth<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">\ud83d\udccb Le \ud835\udc17\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc08 \ud835\udc1d\ud835\udc1e \ud835\udc1d\ud835\udc1e\u0301\ud835\udc29\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc2d de Joel Tomkins pour affronter Warrington. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G9fHTTZscJ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/G9fHTTZscJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dragons Catalans (@DragonsOfficiel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DragonsOfficiel\/status\/1956045763315646864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753331296_223_srl-logo.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Burgess has made his call on Matt Dufty after dropping the full-back last week, with team news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-67495","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\/67495","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=67495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}