{"id":328848,"date":"2025-08-08T21:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328848\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T21:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:10:10","slug":"matt-dufty-misses-warrington-wolves-vs-wigan-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328848\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Dufty misses Warrington Wolves vs Wigan Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  And in his pre-match comments to Sky Sports, head coach Sam Burgess confirmed his absence is related to internal discipline having missed a training session earlier this week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  During the week, it was reported that the full-back was to be stood down for the Round 21 clash for disciplinary reasons.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Australian was named in The Wire&#8217;s 21-man squad for the game after these reports emerged but now, it has been confirmed he is missing from the final matchday 17.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It\u2019s an internal discipline thing,&#8221; Burgess said when asked about Dufty&#8217;s absence.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Matt missed a session earlier in the week \u2013 it\u2019s happened with other players throughout the year so we\u2019ve stood him down and he\u2019ll miss a game.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I will say he\u2019s been great since \u2013 he\u2019s behaving himself and he\u2019s been in good spirits so we\u2019ll see him next week.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Stefan Ratchford has been named to start at full-back &#8211; usual understudy Cai Taylor-Wray was named in the 21-man squad but the game comes too soon for his return from a torn hamstring.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Zack Gardner&#8217;s expected return to the centres in place of Connor Wrench, who misses out under concussion protocol, is the only other change to Warrington&#8217;s 17.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And in his pre-match comments to Sky Sports, head coach Sam Burgess confirmed his absence is related to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-328848","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114995201553094638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}