Huddersfield Giants coach Luke Robinson labelled his side \u2018absolutely rubbish\u2019 \u2013 before admitting they have a new fresh injury concern to add to their mounting problems.<\/p>\n
The Giants are now the only team in Super League to have played three games and lost them all, after being hammered 34-8 at Castleford Tigers on Friday evening.<\/p>\n
It means the Giants are rock bottom of Super League, and after being comprehensively outplayed against their West Yorkshire rivals, Robinson insisted he had no defence for what his side served up.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWe were rubbish. Absolutely rubbish. It\u2019s a very simple game and if you hold onto the ball you put them under pressure but we dropped it over and over again and we were always on the back foot. You lose the energy battle then, you\u2019re on the back foot and you can never regain it. We\u2019ve got to get to grips with that very quickly. Castleford showed us how to play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robinson admitted injuries to key players were hampering his side but that it was \u2018no excuse\u2019 for the level of their performance on Friday evening. He also conceded they now look set to lose another key man, with winger Sam Halsall \u2013 arguably their standout this season so far \u2013 going off with a hamstring problem.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWe\u2019re missing a fair chunk of our actual starting 13, probably the better players within our squad if I\u2019m being brutally honest. But the players we\u2019re putting out there are good enough to win.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur best player this year has been Sam Halsall by a country mile and he\u2019s gone off with a hamstring injury as well. But it\u2019s no excuse; we\u2019ve got key players out but the players we\u2019ve got out are good enough to do a job and we\u2019ve got to learn and we\u2019ve got to learn quick. There\u2019s loads out, but I still feel like those who are out there can still do a job.\u201d<\/p>\n
And with no key men set to return any time soon, Robinson admitted he will not be able to make too many changes to the team that faces reigning world champions Hull KR next Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe vast majority of those players out at the moment aren\u2019t back for another five weeks,\u201d he said. \u201cThe squad we\u2019ve got at the moment is the squad we\u2019ve got. I can\u2019t make too many changes. I\u2019ve pulled (Tanguy) Zenon in from Halifax, who I\u2019ve thrown straight in, but the squad at the moment has got to lick its wounds but it\u2019s got to learn fast.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was very difficult last year with injuries and it\u2019s no different this year. I\u2019ve become accustomed to it if I\u2019m honest. Not having a full squad to pick from is the norm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huddersfield Giants coach Luke Robinson labelled his side \u2018absolutely rubbish\u2019 \u2013 before admitting they have a new fresh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-449434","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\/449434","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=449434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}