Molyneux on Wembley win

• Women’s Captain Victoria Molyneux on Wigan’s first ever Betfred Women’s Challenge Cup win at Wembley stadium.
• Molyneux: “Every single person who took to the field left everything out there, we earned it and we deserved it.”
• FT | St.Helens 6-42 Wigan Warriors.

The Warriors ran in seven tries through seven different scorers to secure a first competition success under the famous Wembley arch, beating St.Helens 42-6.

Speaking at full-time to the press, Wigan Captain Victoria Molyneux said: “I signed for this club in 2019 and I’ve never beaten Saints, so to do it today feels really good and they’re a tough team, they are inundated with internationals, a physical team with experienced athletes but we were the better side today.

“I got asked this week ‘did you believe this would happen?’ Obviously if I looked a long time ago, never would I believe that I would play at Wembley, but did I believe that we’d do the job today? 100 per cent, we felt ready and looked ready.”

Molyneux added: “Kris Radlinski said to us ‘remember, you are just going out there on a grass pitch playing rugby with your mates’ and that’s what it felt like today. We just all worked together, it felt like we were all in sync, and every single person who took to the field left everything out there, we earned it and we deserved it.”

On the game, she said: “The aim was to get to a final and once you get to that final point, you can only back your defence and take your chances when they come and we did that. We kept it simple, we were clinical, we trusted the process and I thought our performance was outstanding.”

Molyneux, whose father Jim represented the Wigan club between 1968 and 1972, juggles life as a mum and her full-time job as a teacher alongside her playing duties with the Warriors, but she wouldn’t have it any other way: “I never use the word sacrifice, I don’t like it, it’s a choice,” said Molyneux.

“It’s not pressure as such when you pull on a Wigan shirt, but it’s the expectancy and that desire to win trophies, and that’s what we’ve wanted for a long time, it’s not that the Club have wanted to do this and we’re taking a backstep. We are fully on board with what we wanted to achieve and the girls have worked so hard because we love each other and we love doing what we do.

“It is difficult and tiring at times, but one of our pre-season meetings with Denis was that we need to focus and I feel like that little bit of focus has put us in really good stead to be sat here now with a gold medal and not a silver one.”

Watch Match Highlights and Match Reactions on Wigan TV HERE.