{"id":439054,"date":"2026-02-22T04:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439054\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T04:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:33:09","slug":"hull-fc-provide-will-pryce-and-joe-batchelor-latest-and-react-to-heavy-wigan-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439054\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull FC provide Will Pryce and Joe Batchelor latest and react to heavy Wigan defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Cartwright reacts to Will Pryce&#8217;s knee injury, a knock for Joe Batchelor, and Hull FC&#8217;s defeat.<\/p>\n<p>22:58, 21 Feb 2026Updated 02:31, 22 Feb 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hull FC full-back Will Pryce suffered a knee injury at Wigan.\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3_PC1_1767JPG.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Hull FC full-back Will Pryce suffered a knee injury at Wigan.\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Hull FC full-back Will Pryce suffered a knee injury at Wigan.(Image: SW PIX)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Hull FC will send Will Pryce for scans over the weekend to determine the severity of a knee injury picked up in Saturday&#8217;s defeat at Wigan Warriors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Black and Whites were comfortably beaten at the Brick Community Stadium, with Pryce going down awkwardly towards the end of the 34-6 defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Pryce left the field in visible discomfort. However, it&#8217;s too early for Hull to say at this stage what the 23-year-old has done, with scans on Monday set to give the club a fuller picture. For now, they have everything crossed on receiving the best-case scenario.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Asked what he can tell us about Pryce now, Cartwright said in his post-match press conference, &#8220;Not a lot. The doctor has had a look at him. It&#8217;s more hopeful at the moment that it&#8217;s not serious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;s way too early. He&#8217;s still too warm from the game. We need to let him cool down and get some scans done on him, and we&#8217;ll then go from there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;It looked like he got put in an awkward situation. The knee isn&#8217;t made to bend the way that it did. There&#8217;s a bit of instant pain and a bit of a scare. Fingers crossed it&#8217;s best case rather than worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Elsewhere, Hull also lost Joe Batchelor to a knock during the game, with the back rower doing it tough on two accounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Joe has pulled up quite sore,&#8221; Cartwright said. &#8220;He has a calf and a shoulder issue. It&#8217;s still pretty early. We&#8217;ll check him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">On those who missed the Wigan game \u2013 Zak Hardaker, Jake Arthur, John Asiata, and James Bell \u2013 Cartwright explained: &#8220;Zak has had an ankle problem. He should be alright for next week (York Knights at home).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Jake Arthur isn&#8217;t too far away, and John Asiata and James Bell too \u2013 we&#8217;ll give them every chance. If we get the okay with any of them, then they&#8217;ll be available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">And on the Wigan defeat itself, Cartwright had no complaints, with the Warriors relentless in their performance. They dominated the game and once they got a foothold, they didn&#8217;t let it slip, with Hull on the back foot and struggling to get out of their own half all game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We were up against it from the word go,&#8221; Cartwright said. &#8220;They were very good and we weren&#8217;t so good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Games of <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hulldailymail.co.uk\/all-about\/rugby-league\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">rugby league<\/a> are won through the middle of the field, by gaining ascendancy through the middle of the field \u2013 sometimes it&#8217;s a stalemate and sometimes a side just gets on top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;They bashed us up. We were on the back foot for the whole time. We couldn&#8217;t get out of our own end. Their line speed was enormous and their contact was enormous. They just beat us in all of those areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;They got the ascendancy, and if we could have just held them out, it may have turned the game for us, but we gave up a couple of early tries and they built momentum. They never went away. They were methodical for the whole 80 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;In the second half, all we could do was try to win that and build some momentum. But even though the second half was a lot closer, we were still just hanging on. They were brutal in everything they did and they taught us a lesson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">On the dominance seen in the packs, Cartwright added: &#8220;They play through the middle of the field and it started there \u2013 I&#8217;m not just blaming the middle of the field but that&#8217;s the heartbeat of your team and players play off the back of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Our young wingers also learnt a lesson tonight. We were just given no space. Their line speed just destroyed us. All I can say is 1-0 to Wigan, but we won&#8217;t be bashed up the field like that again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Cartwright reacts to Will Pryce&#8217;s knee injury, a knock for Joe Batchelor, and Hull FC&#8217;s defeat. 22:58,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[20805,28318,5903,20370,101,56,54,55,30586],"class_list":["post-439054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-hull-fc","tag-john-cartwright","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-will-pryce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439054","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=439054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}