{"id":458604,"date":"2026-03-05T09:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458604\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T09:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:04:20","slug":"st-helens-boss-talks-harry-robertson-position-george-whitby-minutes-and-prospect-of-loaning-players-to-halifax-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458604\/","title":{"rendered":"St Helens boss talks Harry Robertson position, George Whitby minutes and prospect of loaning players to Halifax Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Despite their heavily depleted squad, St Helens head coach Paul Rowley has confirmed that his side could well send players on loan to Halifax Panthers.<\/p>\n

It was confirmed early Tuesday afternoon that the RFL had reinstated Halifax\u2019s membership<\/a> and place in the 2026 Championship, however, the club are thought to only have 14 players left following last month\u2019s liquidation.<\/p>\n

St Helens sent numerous players out on loan to Fax in 2025 whilst Leon Cowen had joined the club on a season-long deal for 2026, which obviously ended upon the Panthers\u2019 liquidation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whilst Saints have, in Paul Rowley\u2019s eyes, one of the most depleted squads in Super League alongside Huddersfield Giants, he confirmed that they would be open to making loans work and helping the Panthers out,<\/p>\n

Rowley told Serious About Rugby League: \u201cIf we can help Halifax we will. There\u2019s potential that we might send one or two players to Halifax. If we can, we will.\u201d<\/p>\n

St Helens boss explains need to be versatile amid injury test<\/p>\n

In respect to Saints\u2019 major injuries, of which Alex Walmsley is the latest addition after suffering a foot injury that will rule him out for six weeks<\/a>, Paul Rowley called on his side to remain consistent in how they\u2019re playing, no matter which individuals are playing.<\/p>\n

Jack Welsby\u2019s shoulder injury has seen Harry Robertson deployed at full-back in rounds two and three, but when asked if the youngster is locked in at that role, Rowley responded: \u201cNot necessarily, no.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he also wouldn\u2019t confirm if Robertson would be moving back to the centres, instead explaining that with so many top-line players out St Helens have to adapt.<\/p>\n

Rowley explained: \u201cWe think about all things. Again, as I mentioned with depleted squads. I think ourselves and maybe Huddersfield are probably suffering the worst in that respect.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if we come to a consistent way of playing, then it shouldn\u2019t matter where people play, so to speak and that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do but we\u2019re really being tested at the minute.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s win over Catalans Dragons<\/a> saw Robertson play at full-back in a spine comprised of Tristan Sailor, Jackson Hastings and Daryl Clark, with George Whitby named on the bench in the utility role that Jonny Lomax occupied before his wrist injury.<\/p>\n

On Whitby\u2019s prospects for more minutes, Rowley said: \u201cHe got his opportunity at the weekend, it\u2019s only game three. He got around 20 minutes I think, something like that so again it\u2019s when the opportunity arises.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s training hard and he\u2019s learning and we\u2019ll use him when we see fit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hull KR\u2019s nightmare, Leeds Rhinos\u2019 dominance and possible Hull FC signings \u2013 Click here to watch the latest episode of the Serious About Rugby League Show<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite their heavily depleted squad, St Helens head coach Paul Rowley has confirmed that his side could well…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-458604","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\/458604","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=458604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}