{"id":489453,"date":"2026-03-22T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489453\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:14:10","slug":"huddersfield-giants-boss-hopeful-of-four-players-returning-against-wigan-warriors-as-leeds-rhinos-loanees-praised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489453\/","title":{"rendered":"Huddersfield Giants boss hopeful of four players returning against Wigan Warriors as Leeds Rhinos loanees praised"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Huddersfield\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

Huddersfield Giants boss Luke Robinson is hoping to have a positive \u201cselection headache\u201d next week, as the club are set to have four players returning from injury.<\/p>\n

In what would be a huge boost for a side who are yet to win in Super League this season, the club could welcome back as many as four players in next week\u2019s game against Wigan Warriors.<\/p>\n

An eight-day turnaround will no doubt help their chances of getting players back on the field, but the boss is not getting his hopes up too soon, given how luckless Robinson\u2019s side have been with injury over the past year.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the club\u2019s defeat to Bradford Bulls<\/a>, the former half-back remained hopeful of a quarter of sidelined players making their returns, including captain Adam Clune who is yet to feature in 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a fair few coming back, hopefully. Obviously, we don\u2019t know how they\u2019re going to go in training but the way they\u2019re looking, they\u2019re on a trajectory that looks like they could play.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat would be \u2018Cluney\u2019, Swifty [Adam Swift], Niall Evalds and Connor Wrench, who are all in the mix. I\u2019ve not had a selection headache all year and it would be nice for me to have a selection headache.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should Wrench make the 17, he would be making his club debut, having signed for Huddersfield at the beginning on a month, U-turning on his decision to retire from the sport.<\/p>\n

Given their vast injury list, the Giants had to bring in loan players in order to fill some spots in the squad, with Leeds trio Riley Lumb, Ned McCormack and Presley Cassell all joining on short-term deals.<\/p>\n

\u201c[They were] very good,\u201d explained Robinson. \u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong, they\u2019re only very young but it\u2019s what we needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe obviously were depleted, as everybody knows, so getting three new faces in was a breath of fresh air really.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026I thought Riley [Lumb] made a really good chase back and covered when they made a break, which I thought was phenomenal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought Ned [McCormack] when he gets the ball, he\u2019s got really good footwork and Prez [Cassell]\u2026 he is already such a phenomenal player.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt such a young age, I think he\u2019s only 19 years old, to play in the middle and play massive minutes for a team that he doesn\u2019t actually know yet\u2026 I think he\u2019s going to be a really good player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hull FC under pressure, Huddersfield Giants in crisis and shock Super League predictions \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":"Huddersfield Giants boss Luke Robinson is hoping to have a positive \u201cselection headache\u201d next week, as the club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-489453","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\/489453","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=489453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}