{"id":543231,"date":"2026-04-21T17:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/543231\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:50:11","slug":"bradford-bulls-confirm-season-ending-injury-with-club-down-to-15-fit-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/543231\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford Bulls confirm season-ending injury with club down to 15 fit players"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bradford Bulls head coach Kurt Haggerty has confirmed the severity of the club\u2019s injury crisis with one signing now ruled out for the season.<\/p>\n

The Bulls lost three players to injury in Saturday\u2019s heavy defeat to Wakefield Trinity<\/a> with Esan Marsters, Joe Mellor and Jack Ormondroyd all leaving the field injured.<\/p>\n

Haggerty has now confirmed that centre Marsters will miss the remainder of the season after snapping his Achilles, a devastating blow for both player and club, whilst the updates on Mellor and Ormondroyd weren\u2019t great either.<\/p>\n

Sharing an injury update, Haggerty announced: \u201cEsan Marsters will be out for the season. He\u2019s snapped his Achilles. Joe Mellor is seeing a specialist on Monday and will be out for a long period of time.<\/p>\n

\u201cJack Ormondroyd is 50\/50 for the game over the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

It means Marsters joins fellow centre Waqa Blake on the sidelines with Bradford now short on numbers in their outside backs, as well as in their halves.<\/p>\n

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Bradford Bulls set to look at loan market after huge injury crisis<\/p>\n

Joe Mellor was the man who had played in the halves at the weekend but the veteran is set for the specialist with Haggerty admitting that \u2018it doesn\u2019t look great\u2019 and adding that his expectations from early conversations are \u2018six to eight weeks\u2019.<\/p>\n

With so many key players out, particularly in the outside backs and halves, Haggerty has confirmed that he does not know what his\u00a0side could look like on Saturday when the Bulls host Hull KR.<\/p>\n

When asked, the Bradford Bulls boss admitted: \u201cI\u2019ll be really honest, I haven\u2019t got a clue right now. We\u2019ve just come off the training field where I had 15 players training. Right now, I don\u2019t really know what it looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n

He did concede that the club will have to look at the loan market after having run out of men for their next man up mentality to still be implemented.<\/p>\n

\u201cPossibly, yeah,\u201d he said when asked about loans, adding: \u201cIt\u2019s something we\u2019ve discussed, something we may need to look at.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in a situation now where we had a mentality of next man up, there\u2019s no men left, so we\u2019ll keep going. Whatever we\u2019ve got, whoever\u2019s out of position and where they go, I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll all step up and do a job for the club.\u201d<\/p>\n

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