Wigan Warriors boss Matt Peet opens up on BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024 honour
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Wigan boss Matt Peet spoke of the club's pride after the quadruple-winners claimed BBC Sport Personality Team of the Year. Warriors started 2024 by securing the World Club Challenge with victory over fabled Aussie champions Penrith. But they followed up by lifting the Challenge Cup at Wembley, bagging the League Leaders’ Shield and retaining their Super League title by beating Hull KR in the Grand Final at Old Trafford.
Wigan were the first team in the summer era to win all four trophies in one calendar year. The club was also the first rugby league outfit to ever claim the BBC team award when doing so in 1994. They won the quadruple then, too, with a side that boasted the likes of Martin Offiah, Shaun Edwards and Jason Robinson.
They are the first rugby league side to take the BBC crown since St Helens in 2006. Peet said: “It's a great honour to receive this award. Wigan have a history in this award. The club's in good shape, we're very alive and connected. "It starts at the top with Kris [Radlinski] and we have great ambition. We want success but we try to look after our own. That's our strength in our sport: we look at how we can help our supporters and communities, rather than what we can take from them.".
Wigan saw off Manchester City, Chelsea's women's side, England's Red Roses, Paralympics GB, rugby union's Glasgow Warriors Peet was joined by Wigan captain Liam Farrell, prolific winger Liam Marshall and the club's England scrum-half Harry Smith at the star-studded awards show in Salford.