{"id":103520,"date":"2025-08-30T17:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/103520\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T17:57:08","slug":"hull-fc-confirm-three-injury-setbacks-including-herman-eseese-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/103520\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull FC confirm three injury setbacks including Herman Ese&#8217;ese blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hull FC injury latest after defeat to Leeds.<\/p>\n<p>17:51, 30 Aug 2025Updated 18:17, 30 Aug 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1_Herman-Eseesejpgull-FC-prop.jpg\" alt=\" Herman Ese'ese was immense once again for Hull FC.\" loading=\"eager\"  \/> Herman Ese&#8217;ese was immense once again for Hull FC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">John Cartwright has confirmed a triple injury blow to his <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hulldailymail.co.uk\/all-about\/hull-fc\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hull FC<\/a> side. The Black and Whites were defeated 34-0 by Leeds Rhinos on Saturday afternoon, with Herman Ese&#8217;ese and Ed Chamberlain leaving the MKM Stadium field in the first half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Hull head coach has also revealed a back knock to Cade Cust, with the team counting the cost of what was a tough defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The extent of all three injuries is currently unknown, with Chamberlain injuring his hamstring and Ese&#8217;ese his lower leg \u2013 a blow that the club will now need to get to the bottom of over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Speaking post-match, Cartwright said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know with Herman. It&#8217;s a lower leg injury and he can&#8217;t put any weight on it. I haven&#8217;t spoken to the doctors or the physios yet. We&#8217;ll know more next week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">On Chamberlain and Cust, Cartwright continued: &#8220;Ed has done a hammy, by the looks of it. Cade has got a bit of a back issue. Those are the main ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Liam Watts also has a tight hamstring after playing big minutes during the game. Cartwright said: &#8220;Wattsy is tight there and we&#8217;ll have to check that through the week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Going into the clash, Hull were already without the likes of Will Pryce (hamstring), Jed Cartwright (pectoral), John Asiata (hamstring), Ligi Sao (knee), and Liam Knight (ankle) due to injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">And it&#8217;s not going to get much better against <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hulldailymail.co.uk\/all-about\/hull-kr\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hull KR<\/a> next week, with only Sam Eseh likely to return for the derby at Craven Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;I think Sam Eseh is about 50\/50,&#8221; Cartwright said. &#8220;Outside of that, no (returns).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Conceding that his squad are running out of numbers, with Hull perhaps forced to tap into the younger members of their roster next week, Cartwright added. &#8220;It&#8217;s especially in the middle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;In periods of that game, we had Brad Fash, Yusuf Aydin, and Matty Laidlaw in the middle of the field. They tried their backsides off, but they&#8217;re pretty big boys, those Leeds boys, and it was similar to St Helens last week \u2013 we got some injuries, and we lacked a little bit of size in the middle.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hull FC injury latest after defeat to Leeds. 17:51, 30 Aug 2025Updated 18:17, 30 Aug 2025 Herman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[41116,50419,42647,20805,28318,5903,20370,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-103520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-cade-cust","tag-ed-chamberlain","tag-herman-eseese","tag-hull-fc","tag-john-cartwright","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}