{"id":777238,"date":"2026-09-20T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777238\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:04:09","slug":"super-league-man-of-steel-wigan-warriors-dominate-top-10-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777238\/","title":{"rendered":"Super League Man of Steel: Wigan Warriors dominate top 10 list"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five Wigan Warriors<\/a> stars have made the cut for the latest top 10 shortlist in this year\u2019s Man of Steel \u2013 with Leeds Rhinos fullback Lachie Miller among the big names to miss out.<\/p>\n

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Matt Peet\u2019s side dominate the official reveal of the top 10 for this year\u2019s award given their form in 2026, not least in the second half of this season.<\/p>\n

And five of their standout performers across the year have had their form reflected with inclusion in the latest shortlist for the most prestigious individual award in the game for Rounds 19 to 27.<\/p>\n

Wigan dominate Man of Steel shortlist<\/p>\n

That list is headlined by the inclusion of star half-back Bevan French, who is now seemingly in the running to win the award for a second time, as well as fullback Jai Field.<\/p>\n

Wigan hooker Brad O\u2019Neill\u2019s magnificent year has also led to him being included by the all-star panel of former winners of the award. O\u2019Neill is joined by scrum-half Harry Smith and centre Adam Keighran \u2013 another who has been one of the most consistent performers for the Warriors in 2026.<\/p>\n

They are joined by players from three other clubs.<\/p>\n

Leeds Rhinos half-back Jake Connor is in contention to win back-to-back Man of Steel awards after making the cut for the latest top 10 \u2013 and he is joined in that list by partner in the halves at Headingley, Brodie Croft.<\/p>\n

Leigh Leopards have two inclusions too, with forward Joe Ofahengaue and centre Umyla Hanley\u2019s impressive individual seasons leading to nominations this time around.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Wakefield have representation in the latest top 10 too \u2013 with England-eligible forward Caleb Hamlin-Uele making the cut.<\/p>\n

Big names miss out<\/p>\n

Perhaps the biggest omission from the latest list is Leeds fullback Lachie Miller, who has been included in the shortlist on multiple occasions this season and was actually leading the race for Man of Steel at one stage.<\/p>\n

The latest shortlist was put together by five former winners of the award, with Ellery Hanley MBE, Paul Sculthorpe MBE, Sam Tomkins, James Roby and Joe Lydon all coming together to pick the shortlist. They will now whittle that down to a final five based on all the three shortlists this year before deciding the winner ahead of the official coronation of the Man of Steel later this month.<\/p>\n

Roby said: \u201cThere\u2019s been some terrific individual performances in the last nine rounds of the regular Super League season. There\u2019s plenty of debate in the show and it\u2019s never easy whittling the ten down to five.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t all agree \u2013 you can tell that with the voting \u2013 but the final five is impressive and they\u2019ll now go into our thinking when it comes to making our final decision on the 2026 Steve Prescott MBE Man of Steel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five Wigan Warriors stars have made the cut for the latest top 10 shortlist in this year\u2019s Man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-777238","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\/777238","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=777238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}