Huddersfield Giants boss Luke Robinson is fearing the worst regarding the injury Matt Frawley picked up on Sunday afternoon.
Huddersfield turned in a woeful showing at the Totally Wicked Stadium as they were beaten 52-4 by St Helens and it came as a cost, too.
Frawley, who was Huddersfield’s most senior half-back available given Tui Lolohea and Adam Clune are already ruled out, hit the deck in the first half with an ankle injury.
The Leeds Rhinos loanee had the joint strapped up and managed to get to half-time, however, he never emerged for the second half and could later be seen sat in the Giants’ dugout with crutches by his side.
Robinson couldn’t provide much of an update on the scrum-half but he did admit that the signs were not promising.
“It doesn’t look good,” an exasperated Robinson said after the game. “We obviously don’t want to make a diagnosis too early but it’s his ankle.
“The amount of half-backs I’ve had this year, I’ve borrowed them from Hull KR, I’ve borrowed them from Leeds, we’ve brought young kids in, and we are were down to the bare bones anyway.
“We’re missing Niall Evalds, Adam Clune and Tui Lolohea, I don’t think they’ve trained one second together, never mind played together. To then bring Matt Frawley in from Leeds and a little bit of stability and experience which we’ve lacked throughout the year in that position, for him to look he could be gone as well, it typifies our year.
“Every team goes through injuries and you have to find a way of finding resilience and bringing those young players through. But the problem we’ve had is its all been the same position. We’ve not had those players play together from pre-season, we’ve just not had them on the training field. When that happens it makes things extremely hard.”
Huddersfield Giants boss on his side’s defeat at St Helens
Huddersfield conceded four tries during what was a difficult first half and three of those came when they were down to 12 men following Taane Milne’s sin-binning for dissent.
“I don’t think it helped one little bit,” Robinson said when asked if that yellow set the tone. “They’re very good are Saints, they’re very good in the ruck area and they make it extremely slow, they win the ruck and they make it difficult to get any momentum. We got a little bit frustrated by that but when you win the physical battle that generally happens.
“It’s very difficult to keep getting your players up, especially when you’ve got young players and players you’re asking a lot of. I knew it was going to be a difficult place to come, they’ve got a really stacked squad, an amazing team and they’re playing some good rugby.
“They’ve got a forward pack that is one of the most physical in the league and when they get over the top of you, it’s very difficult to contain them. They did that to us today and we could never battle that momentum back.”
