{"id":635168,"date":"2026-06-12T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635168\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:44:08","slug":"willie-peters-hails-hull-kr-star-who-doesnt-let-us-down-after-standout-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635168\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Peters hails Hull KR star who &#8216;doesn&#8217;t let us down&#8217; after standout displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Hull KR boss Willie Peters has paid tribute to unsung forward Sam Luckley, describing him as a player who &#8220;doesn&#8217;t let us down&#8221; after a series of impressive individual performances in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Luckley recently celebrated his 100th appearance for <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hulldailymail.co.uk\/all-about\/hull-kr\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Hull KR<\/a> and has been a dependable figure in the club&#8217;s pack in recent seasons. The 30-year-old was among the try-scorers in last week&#8217;s dramatic defeat to Wakefield Trinity and is expected to feature again when the Robins host York Knights in Round 14, named in the extended squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The prop has been utilised as a regular interchange under head coach Peters, who has been impressed by the Scotland international in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cSam\u2019s last two weeks have been very good,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cHe played bigger minutes at Wembley, and I like what he did against Wakefield. Sam doesn\u2019t let us down, and he\u2019s been one of the better forwards across the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;What I like about him is, he knows his place in the team and executes his role whether he\u2019s coming on in the first or second half, he gets on with it and wants to nail his role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;He\u2019s doing extras in and around getting his fitness levels to where he needs to be. I\u2019ve been happy with Sam over the last few weeks, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Rovers, meanwhile, bid to return to winning ways against Mark Applegarth&#8217;s York back at Sewell Group Craven Park. Hull KR have won their last 32 home meetings against the Knights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">York&#8217;s last away victory against Hull KR was 15-6 on 26 December, 1958.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hull KR boss Willie Peters has paid tribute to unsung forward Sam Luckley, describing him as a player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[20372,5903,20370,214766,101,20373,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-635168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-hull-kr","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-league","tag-sam-luckley","tag-sports","tag-super-league","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635168","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=635168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}