Robins<\/a> will be looking to seal a spot in the semi-finals of the Challenge Cup for the fifth straight season this weekend, with Mark Applegarth’s York their opponents.<\/p>\nThe Knights’ injury issues have been well-documented, with Applegarth suggesting previously that he might struggle to name a 17-man squad, due to the sheer amount of absentees.<\/p>\n
However, KR have their own injury issues and Willie Peters has confirmed that Minchella will sit out of the quarter-final clash at Craven Park due to a hamstring issue.<\/p>\n
The head coach has allayed any fears of a long-term lay-off, insisting the loose-forward is only due to miss a week’s action at this stage, but he isn’t right to feature against the Knights.<\/p>\n
“We have bumps and bruises, as you’d expect from a game like Friday,” Peters said. “Elliot Minchella has a tight hamstring so at this stage he won’t play this weekend. He’s the only one.<\/p>\n
“His strength is not where it should be and if he plays, there’s a chance that he could potentially injure that to a full blown hamstring. We don’t want to risk that, we never want to risk soft tissues. He won’t play this week.<\/p>\n
“It should be only a week. From what it is today and where it’s at today, we manage it properly and then we build him for next week and he should be OK.<\/p>\n
“We’ll have a look, we’ll work out what it looks like but there’s a few there to choose from.”<\/p>\n
Rovers will be able to call on the services of Rhyse Martin this week, though, which comes as a big boost following the back-rower’s three and a half week lay-off.<\/p>\n
“He got through everything that he needed to. He trained today and he’ll be back in contention for sure,” Peters said on Martin.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Peters confirmed Jumah Sambou, who has spent the season so far on loan with Widnes Vikings, has picked up a hamstring injury with the expectation being that he could miss the next six weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hull KR host York Knights on Saturday afternoon as they bid to book their spot in the final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[20448,20372,5903,20370,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-520440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-challenge-cup","tag-hull-kr","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520440","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=520440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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