Huddersfield Giants head coach Luke Robinson has confirmed that the club are investigating the causes of their injury-stricken 2025 season.
Speaking to club media on Friday, Robinson confirmed that Leeds Rhinos’ loanee Matt Frawley had suffered a season-ending injury as he labelled him as the latest to suffer from the “half-back curse” at the club.
Confirming that his squad to face Warrington would not be too dissimilar to the one that faced St Helens barring the suspended Taane Milne, recalled Aidan McGowan and the injured Matt Frawley, Robinson listed some of the stars he’s lost in 2025.
Robinson explained: “He’s gone for an operation today so it was his TFL in his ankle and nothing we could do about it. It’s one of those things that happens in sport and unfortunately for us, it’s another half that we’ve lost.
“Niall (Evalds) gone for the year, Tui (Lolohea) gone for the year, Cluney (Adam Clune) gone for the year and now Frawls gone for the year.”
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Frawley had helped steady the ship at Huddersfield with the club winning four of their last seven prior to last week’s loss to St Helens. To replace him, the Giants have loaned back former Huddersfield man Oliver Russell.
Explaining that, Robinson said: “I’m close to Olly anyway. He’s come through the academy with me and potentially he was going to go on loan to Salford. He ended up reaching out to me and speaking about it.
“He’s really close to some of the lads and he knows the set-up. It’s been seamless really.”
Russell is likely to be the last addition this year, as Robinson added: “I think we’re pretty much done. From a cap perspective, we’re pretty much done. We’ve had to wriggle and move people to get Olly Russell on board and the club have been good about doing that.”
As such the Giants coach will hope that no more injuries strike his side down but the club’s injury record has been torrid this year and Robinson confirmed that plans have already began to prevent such issues in 2026.
Robinson explained: “We’ve got a big turnover of backroom staff anyway but we’ve made adjustments to the field. We found out that there had been issues going on there.
“It’s been a thorough review, we’ve not glossed over it. We’ve looked at what we can do and what we can change but a lot of the injuries were looked at and you realise there’s not much you can do. It’s just pure luck.
“There are others we’ve looked at and thought we can change the way we do stuff so there will be adjustments and hopefully we’ll be better for it.”
