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Injuries mount as Shaw counts cost of penalties
24/ 6/2008
HORNETS’ medical staff are facing a busy week as the side prepares for Sunday’s trip to Hunslet.
Todd O’Brien and Johnathan Muir are the latest to be added to an injury list which already contained Dave Best, Wayne Corcoran and Darren Robinson.
Kick-off was delayed for 15 minutes at Doncaster on Sunday due to the late arrival of a member of the Yorkshiremen’s medical staff, and for Hornets the afternoon turned into the latest episode of emergency ward 10.
O’Brien managed only 15 minutes of the loss at Doncaster before a shoulder injury forced him to sit out the rest of the match. Muir overcame a knee injury to play but was due to have an x-ray on his jaw amid initial fears that it could be broken.
While they made it onto the field at the Keepmoat, coach Darren Shaw was forced to go into Sunday’s game without Carl Sneyd and new loan signing from Leigh Centurions Kyle Neale.
Sneyd was rested on doctor’s orders after suffering a severe facial infection, while Neale pulled out on Sunday morning due to illness.
That, and being on the wrong end of a 14-6 penalty count, made it a tough day for Shaw who suffered his first defeat as Hornets’ coach.
"I couldn’t fault the commitment from them but you are bound to suffer when you are being penalised the way we were," he said. "I think that in the second-half it was 10-2 against us and we lost a man to the sin-bin too. You’re bound to falter and we got a bit loose and tired. We asked them a question or two and it would have been nice to build a bit of pressure. It was a shame because I always felt that if we could have just sustained it for a longer period, and got the ball, then there was something there for us. I thought that in the first-half we were pretty loose and they won the contact. We addressed that at half-time and came out and levelled it up. Unfortunately we then went through a spell where we didn’t get the rub of the green and lost possession too easily. All we needed was a fair share of possession, and then it would have been a really tight game. They scored two really soft tries because we didn’t adjust and front up quick enough, and that was really disappointing. The forwards worked hard, we did it real tough at times, and we weren’t always smart with the ball – there was a lot of one-out rugby. We are missing some key players – and three of them are props – but I can’t fault the guys who turned out and put the shirts on, the commitment was there. Doncaster are a disciplined outfit who do the little things very well. We know that we have areas to address. We’ll get down to it in training, and we have to dust ourselves off, get ready for Hunslet and, hopefully, have a few fresh bodies back."
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