Wakefield shock Wigan 33-6 to reach first Grand Final — SkimNews
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- Wakefield Trinity demolished Wigan Warriors 33-6 in the Super League semi-final, scoring five tries and running in 33 unanswered points after falling behind early on.
- Tom Johnstone scored two of Wakefield's tries against Wigan and said a Grand Final "used to be a bit of a pipe dream" — the England winger rejoined Wakefield in 2025 after a two-year spell with Catalans Dragons.
- Wigan Warriors arrived on a 16-match winning streak chasing a second domestic treble in three seasons, but momentum flipped after Adam Keighran's second-half yellow card.
- Matt Ellis's takeover in 2023, after Wakefield had been relegated to the Championship, financed a rebuild under head coach Daryl Powell that returned the club to Super League in 2025 and now to within one match of the title.
- Daryl Powell will face his former club Warrington Wolves at Old Trafford on 3 October, having coached them for a season and a half before exiting midway through the 2023 campaign.
- Captain Mike McMeeken, who has played in three previous Grand Finals with Castleford and Catalans, called Saturday "up there as one of the best moments of my career so far."
- BBC pundit Kevin Brown described the display as "definitely Wakefield's best ever performance in Super League," adding it was an "incredible story."
Why it matters: Whoever wins on 3 October will be a first-time Super League champion, and Wakefield's appearance caps a two-year climb from 2023 relegation back through the Championship — funded by Matt Ellis's takeover — to Old Trafford. Powell facing the club he previously coached gives the final a personal subplot on top of Wigan's ended 16-match winning streak.
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