Hull not 100 per cent for Giants clash

HULL FC coach Andy Last has been forced to come to terms with the fact that a number of his players probably won’t be ‘100 per cent’ ready to take on Huddersfield Giants.

After spending the last 14 days training from home, most players returned to training on Tuesday morning to begin building up to Sunday’s clash at the Halliwell Jones Stadium.

They will have just four days of training to prepare for the game and ensure they are as ready as they can be for the clash, with Hull needing the points to avoid a third straight Super League defeat.

Last knows how much work needs to go into his players between now and game day but he is all too aware that after such a disruption to training they might not be completely prepared for the physical challenges of a Super League fixture.

“None of them will be at 100 per cent from a physical point of view,” he told Hull Live.

“It would be foolish of us to start saying we’re in tip-top physical shape when you’ve got four days to prepare on the back of having two weeks in isolation in your back garden doing up-and-downs, burpees and press ups and that type of stuff.

“We have a duty to the game to go out and perform and we have a duty to the club and ourselves to do the best we possibly can and that’s what we’ll be looking to do.

“We aren’t going to get any sympathy from the powers that be, we have to face that challenge head on and attack these next six games from Huddersfield to Salford.”