The Wire Untangled

For the final time this year, it's time for your weekly dose of Warrington Wolves chat.To wrap up the first season of "The Wire Untangled," hosts Matt Turner, Mike Parsons and Gareth Dunning have some awards to give out as they take a final look back through the good and the bad of Warrington Wolves' 2026 season.Certain players get their flowers while we also highlight some of the most and least memorable outings of the season just passed, finishing with our three-word summary of 2026.We'd like to thank all of our listeners for lending us their ears throughout the year - we'll be back bigger and better in 2027!

Warrington Wolves' campaign may now be over - but we're not quite finished just yet!We have two more episodes of our dedicated Wire podcast for you to round out our first season, starting with this comprehensive review of what we saw from the team in 2026.Matt Turner, Mike Parsons and Gareth Dunning take a look back over eight months of twists, turns, highs and lows which ended with Sam Burgess' side falling just short of the ultimate glory of winning the Super League Grand Final.Before that, Warrington had undergone an impressive resurgence to go from an eighth-place finish in 2025 to third this time around, with a staggering home record of 16 wins from 17 matches in all competitions being the foundation of their efforts.We look at where we feel Warrington are heading into the off-season and assess the changes we feel they still need to make before the 2027 campaign begins.Then next week, we will bring you our season finale as we hand our our "alternative awards" for 2026.

As the dust settles on yet another Grand Final defeat for Warrington Wolves, it's time to unpack where things went wrong at Old Trafford.Matt Turner, Mike Parsons and Gareth Dunning take one final look at the defeat to Wakefield Trinity as well as looking at some of the fallout from it, with sections of the fanbase expressing their anger and frustration. While plenty of it was justified, did some of it go too far?Warrington found themselves 19-0 down at the break following a nightmare first half as they conceded the biggest half-time deficit in a Grand Final since 2001. When it became clear that Plan A was not working, why was Plan B not enacted sooner?We also ask whether or not Warrington need to look deeper into why the team has once again failed to perform in a final.The chaps then discuss England's squad for the Rugby League World Cup, which was announced on Monday with three Wire players included - but was another unfortunate not to get a seat on the plane to Australia?All of that and more on this week's episode of "The Wire Untangled" - the Warrington Guardian's dedicated Warrington Wolves podcast

It's Grand Final week and for the fifth time in the Super League era, Warrington Wolves stand on the brink of history.Is this the time for them to finally end a wait for a league title that stretches all the way back to 1955?Among other things, this week's very special episode of "The Wire Untangled" sees Matt Turner, Mike Parsons and Gareth Dunning explain what a Wire win at Old Trafford on Saturday would mean to them.But amid all of the emotion attached, there is still a game to play and the chaps assess just how Warrington can go about getting the job done against an impressive Wakefield Trinity side who beat them only a month ago.What lessons have they learned from that game, and others in the last few weeks? We pick out the key area in which Wire simply must step up if they are to be the ones making history on Saturday evening.All of that and more on this week's episode of "The Wire Untangled" - the Warrington Guardian's dedicated weekly Warrington Wolves podcast

The regular season is done and now, it's time for the play-offs!Thankfully, there is no early holiday for our Warrington Wolves team this year with The Wire back in the mix, and this week's episode of "The Wire Untangled" looks ahead to what will hopefully be a long post-season campaign.Matt Turner and Gareth Dunning take a look ahead to Saturday's huge eliminator tie against Hull KR, whom Warrington have beaten home and away in Super League this year.However, the Robins have also ended Wire's participation in the last two Challenge Cups and their last two sets of Super League play-offs - can they put those wrongs right?Head coach Sam Burgess has a refreshed squad to choose from boosted by several returnees from injury - can he find a role for players like Cai Taylor-Wray and, perhaps more pertinently, Leon Hayes?We also touch on how a youthful Warrington team ended the regular season by impressively beating Toulouse Olympique and there is big praise for Ben Currie after the loose forward won the club's Player of the Year award before being named in the Super League Dream Team.With George Williams moving on at the end of the year, is Currie the stand-out candidate to be Warrington's next captain?All of that and more on this week's episode of "The Wire Untangled" - the Warrington Guardian's dedicated weekly Warrington Wolves podcast.