{"id":370686,"date":"2025-08-24T21:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/370686\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T21:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:26:13","slug":"warrington-wolves-coach-blasts-woeful-huddersfield-giants-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/370686\/","title":{"rendered":"Warrington Wolves coach blasts woeful Huddersfield Giants defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warrington Wolves boss Sam Burgess saw his side\u2019s already slim play-off hopes all but ended by lowly Huddersfield Giants and admitted: \u2018That\u2019s as bad as it gets.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wire, who have endured a dreadful campaign despite reaching the Challenge Cup final, lost 23-10 at the Accu Stadium and remain in eighth spot on the Super League ladder.<\/p>\n

They remain five competition points behind sixth-placed Hull FC, but there are just four rounds remaining now.<\/p>\n

And after their defeat to the Giants, Burgess could scarcely hide his frustration, conceding\u00a0that his side played as if their top-six hopes were already over \u2013 and damningly branding the display the worst of his near two-year reign.<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s probably as poor as we have played since I\u2019ve been in charge at the club\u2019<\/p>\n

Warrington led 10-6 at the break on Sunday, but a second half horror show \u2013 inspired by Giants youngster George Flanagan Jr \u2013 saw the hosts run out worthy victors.<\/p>\n

Post-match, Burgess said: \u201cIt was an extremely disappointing second half \u2013 it\u2019s probably as poor as we have played since I\u2019ve been in charge at the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to ask a few questions of ourselves and I\u2019ll be doing the same with myself because it just wasn\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first half was a fair game, but in the second half we may as well have stayed in the changing room.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s confusing because we had a great week in practice and we expect to transfer into our performance, but it just didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s probably the most concerning part \u2013 the guys are just not turning up on gameday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s reverse brought Warrington\u2019s 13th league defeat of the season.<\/p>\n

Asked why his players had failed to perform, Burgess replied: \u201cThat\u2019s probably a question you should ask some of the players. We could all see that second half and some of it is just not good enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve asked the players, \u2018what have we still got to play for?\u2019, and we got the answer today.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got to be careful what I say\u2026 the performance in the second half made it evident that we\u2019re just not where we need to be as a group\u2019<\/p>\n

Warrington played in the second half like their season was already over, a point which Burgess accepted.<\/p>\n

He revealed: \u201cI just asked them that question. We looked like that and the other team looked like they were fighting for a finals (play-off) spot. It\u2019s pretty disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n

For a man of Burgess\u2019 standing in the game, who as a player never took a backward step, it was difficult to stomach.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cI\u2019ve got to be careful what I say. I don\u2019t need to say any huge words about my group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe performance in the second half made it evident that we\u2019re just not where we need to be as a group, which is disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if he saw a glimmer of hope in the play-offs, Burgess said: \u201cNo. Our performance today would suggest that we don\u2019t deserve it anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warrington Wolves boss Sam Burgess saw his side\u2019s already slim play-off hopes all but ended by lowly Huddersfield…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-370686","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\/115085861548475117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370686","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=370686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}