{"id":470247,"date":"2026-03-11T20:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470247\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T20:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:25:17","slug":"huddersfield-giants-super-league-club-facing-unprecedented-injury-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470247\/","title":{"rendered":"Huddersfield Giants: Super League club facing &#8216;unprecedented&#8217; injury crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Huddersfield Giants say they are facing an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; injury crisis headed into their Challenge Cup tie against holders Hull KR on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Super League basement side said in a statement on Tuesday that they have 16 first-team members unavailable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is common knowledge that we are doing it tough at the moment, particularly on the injury front,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Of the short-term injuries, Connor Carr (shoulder), George Flanagan (ankle) and Matty English (knee) are all set to miss out this weekend pending the results of scans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Niall Evalds (calf), Adam Swift (hamstring), Adam Clune (ankle) are set to return in early April, Logan Blacker (thigh) mid April, with Sam Halsall (hamstring), Joe Greenwood (ankle) coming back late April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harry Rushton has a broken thumb and is predicted to return in early May with Marshall Land (ankle) set for a return at the end of May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile Liam Sutcliffe (hamstring) is out until at least July and Zac Woolford and Archie Sykes to be monitored due to suffering a head knock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Hewitt is undergoing surgery on Tuesday, while Tanguy Zenon is cup tied having already appeared in the Challenge Cup this season with Halifax prior to his move across West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huddersfield Giants say they are facing an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; injury crisis headed into their Challenge Cup tie against holders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-470247","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\/470247","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=470247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}