{"id":473751,"date":"2026-03-13T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473751\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:50:08","slug":"huddersfield-giants-lay-offs-for-george-flanagan-jr-and-matty-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473751\/","title":{"rendered":"Huddersfield Giants: Lay-offs for George Flanagan Jr and Matty English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Huddersfield Giants head coach Luke Robinson has confirmed that George Flanagan Jr and Matty English face lengthy spells on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both were injured in last Sunday&#8217;s defeat by Hull KR, with full-back Flanagan injuring his ankle in scoring a try, while loose forward English&#8217;s knee was hurt in a loose tackle by forward Karl Lawton, for which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c75eyderr49o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he was subsequently banned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;George will be out for the next few months,&#8221; Robinson told BBC Radio Leeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Matt had a cannonball to his knee and there were fears that it was going to be his ACL, but he has been very fortunate as it&#8217;s his MCL (medial collateral ligament).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He won&#8217;t be out as long as we originally feared, but it&#8217;ll still be the two to three-month timescale.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huddersfield Giants head coach Luke Robinson has confirmed that George Flanagan Jr and Matty English face lengthy spells&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-473751","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\/473751","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=473751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}