Warrington Wolves man makes Super League form claim amid personal goal

A Challenge Cup win on Saturday can act as the catalyst Warrington Wolves need to kickstart their Super League season. That’s the belief of Wolves forward Ben Currie, who is looking to win his second Cup final at Wembley this weekend.

It’s been an up and down campaign for the Wire so far, with inconsistency in performances and results ensuring they sit eighth in the Super League table with a record of six wins and seven losses. They’ve experienced more than their fair share of injury problems in that time, though, with a raft of key men being sidelined with issues.

This weekend will see George Williams return after a seven-week absence, but there are question marks over Toby King, Jordy Crowther and Lachlan Fitzgibbon, while Matty Ashton and Danny Walker are among those to miss out with long-term issues. However, the likes of Marc Sneyd, Connor Wrench and Leon Hayes have struggled with injuries, too, this season.

Such absences have undoubtedly played a role in Warrington’s form, and Currie is quick to admit that, but he believes a win on Saturday could provide the boost they’ve been looking for to kick on and force their way into the Super League play-off picture.

“Personnel makes a massive difference,” Currie told Serious About RL. “From the first game we lost a few people and it seems to be a common theme each week, you go into the game thinking, ‘who’s missing this week?’.

“We’ve adapted as best we can but our 13 players starting have changed every week, half-back combinations, centre-wing combinations keep changing so a lot of people have had to play out of position or change within games.

“We’ve no excuses from us, we’ve got the squad and personnel to fill those spots. Our league form needs to improve but our Cup form has been fantastic, you can’t knock it and long may it continue.

“If you fast forward and we come out of this with a trophy under our belt and a few boys back from injury, before you know it we’re climbing the table and we’re looking back on this period of the season for us thinking it did us good and toughened us up and taught us how to win and play in different way.

“We’ve embraced it, taken as many positives as possible and obviously you’d rather have people on the field but it’s taught us different roles.”

Warrington Wolves’ Ben Currie eyeing second Wembley win

Saturday will be Currie’s fourth Challenge Cup final experience. He won the competition in 2019 with a win over St Helens, which was Warrington Wolves’ last trophy, but was a runner up in 2016 and 2024. As such, the 30-year-old is determined to add to that haul this weekend and make himself a two-time Wembley winner.

“This is Challenge Cup final number four for me, I’ve lost two and won one so it would be nice to even it up with a 50-50 split this week,” Currie added. “Going back to last year, we had people in the squad that had never played at Wembley or in a Challenge Cup final before so everyone is experienced, we know what to expect this week and we’ll try and keep it as normal as possible and hopefully come out on the right side.

“I’ve been here 14 seasons now and I’ve only got the one Challenge Cup which for me personally is not good enough. I’m definitely driven by adding more to my trophy cabinet before I finish. I have a goal in mind and I’ll be doing my all to reach that goal for sure.”