Wigan open their Tremendous League season with a 26–16 win at Castleford; Zack Eckersley double evokes comeback victory; Sky Sports activities is the one place to look at each Tremendous League sport stay in 2026
Final Up to date: 15/02/26 9:47pm
Jake Wardle scores Wigan’s fifth strive in opposition to Castleford
A brace of tries by Zack Eckersley helped Wigan begin the brand new Tremendous League season with a 26-16 win at Castleford.
Warriors trailed for a lot of the opening half till efforts by Liam Marshall and Bevan French earlier than the interval handed the 2025 Grand Ultimate runners-up a slender benefit on the break.
Eckersley’s Forty third-minute strive cemented Wigan’s grip on proceedings earlier than he added one other and Jake Wardle made the factors protected when he crossed 13 minutes from time. Castleford rallied late on, however they’d an excessive amount of to do.
After a weekend of shock outcomes, with champions Hull KR defeated, Wigan seemed set to endure the identical destiny when Liam Hood opened the scoring after 10 minutes.
It stayed 6-0 till the thirty fourth minute when Marshall grabbed the primary of 5 tries for Warriors.
After the conversion was unsuccessful, French went over and completed off a slick transfer to make sure Wigan had been 10-6 up at half-time.
Mikaele Ravalawa of Castleford celebrating his strive
Matt Peet’s males had been within the ascendancy and Eckersley opened his account three minutes into the second half earlier than he nearly wrapped up the factors with a second rating after 62 minutes.
It was adopted by a strive for Wardle, however Tigers completed strongly after Warriors’ Adam Keighran was despatched to the sin-bin, with Mikaele Ravalawa and George Lawler in a position so as to add comfort efforts within the closing 11 minutes.
Peet: We had been first rate once we obtained going
Wigan head coach Matt Peet: “For large parts defensively I thought we were very good against a team who certainly asked questions.
“On the pitch at Castleford you at all times really feel like you might be defending your individual line which is a check.
“I liked our last plays and at times when we got going with the ball we were decent. We will get better.”
Matt Peet and Oliver Partington celebrates Wigan’s win
‘We made it onerous for ourselves’
Castleford head coach Ryan Carr: “We made it too hard on ourselves. If we got some other moments right and didn’t make the game of footy so hard on ourselves the scoreline would have been much closer coming into the last 20.
“We had been taking part in in opposition to good opponents in Wigan. They have been collectively a very long time, they’re properly drilled and so they know what they’re doing.
“We knew we were in for a fight, but we were definitely up for it. We just didn’t manage the game well at certain times.”
Sky Sports activities will once more present each sport of the Tremendous League stay this season – together with two matches in every spherical solely stay, with the remaining 5 matches every week proven on Sky Sports activities+
