Huddersfield Giants lost a fourth straight game in Super League but perhaps more important and devastating was another two injury blows.
Hull KR returned from Las Vegas with Willie Peters naming the same seventeen, who managed to earned their first win of the Super League season as they defeated the Giants 32-6 in relatively comfortable fashion.
A key reason for that would be just how many players the Giants are missing through injury but those injury issues have worsened even more with the club’s player of the season so far, George Flanagan Jr, limping off after suffering an injury in the act of scoring the Giants’ only try of the day.
The young full-back jumped highest to claim the ball but was caught by Tyrone May, who was also challenging for the ball, and that perhaps led to Flanagan Jr landing awkwardly. He immediately gestured to his ankle and lower leg area before leaving the field after being assessed by the physios.
Just ten minutes later and forward Matty English was helped off the field after also suffering a lower leg injury, for which Hull KR’s Karl Lawton was sin-binned.
What Huddersfield Giants boss said after injury concerns grow
Speaking post-match on Sky Sports, Huddersfield Giants head coach Luke Robinson addressed the injury to Flanagan Jr, stating:”I didn’t know at the time if it would have been an eight-point try as he probably got taken in the air, but I don’t know, I’ll have to watch it back a little bit more, but, look, he’s a phenomenal player.
“It’s just very unfortunate but as I walked down that stairs then, I saw him in a boot, and he looks pretty bad with his ankle.”
On other injuries, he said: “I saw Matty English after the cannonball hit, he’s in a knee brace. We finished the game with 12 men at the end then as we didn’t have any more subs left.
“Ollie Russell came off with his groin, Kieran Rush came off with something, so yeah, it’s not looking good at this moment in time, in that front.”
Injuries weren’t an excuse for Robinson who called the Giants ‘the master of their own downfall’, slamming their completion percentage and sloppy play.
He said: “The problem for us is that we’re just the masters of our own downfall. We complete at 60-odd percent in that that first half, which, when you continually give the ball awayy, over and over and over again, eventually it just comes back to bite you, and you just, it’s an energy battle.
“I think we’ve said it too many times that we just cough the ball way too easy, and it just robs us of energy.”
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