{"id":441512,"date":"2026-02-23T17:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441512\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:19:07","slug":"sam-hewitt-ban-adds-to-huddersfield-giants-early-season-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441512\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Hewitt ban adds to Huddersfield Giants’ early-season problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Huddersfield Giants will be without suspended back row Sam Hewitt for Friday’s Super League early-season basement battle at Castleford Tigers.<\/p>\n

Hewitt has been given a one-match suspension after being charged with a late contact in the narrow defeat by Wakefield Trinity<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

His absence is another blow to the Giants, who are already without six regular players due to injury.<\/p>\n

Centre Liam Sutcliffe is out for 12 weeks, back row Joe Greenwood and loose forward Harry Rushton are sidelined for nine to 10 weeks, while wing Adam Swift, full-back Niall Evalds and half-back Adam Clune will each miss around five weeks.<\/p>\n

“It has been a bit of a jinx really,” Huddersfield head coach Luke Robinson told BBC Radio Leeds.<\/p>\n

“I made Cluney captain, he got injured. Then I made Swift captain the week after, he got injured. And then I made Rushton the captain the week after and he got injured.<\/p>\n

“I was chuffed Tui (Lolohea) escaped that jinx against Wakefield.<\/p>\n

“We are missing some key players.<\/p>\n

“Before the end of pre-season we were in a really good spot but obviously the last couple of weeks haven’t been great for us. It is what it is – there’s not much we can do about it.”<\/p>\n

Huddersfield and Castleford have both lost their opening two Super League fixtures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huddersfield Giants will be without suspended back row Sam Hewitt for Friday’s Super League early-season basement battle at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-441512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441512","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=441512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}