NO RESPITE FOR HULL
By STEVE BRADY
IT NEVER rains but it pours for Hull FC coach Tony Smith, who lost a string of players to injuries in the torrential rain of Perpignan on Saturday night.
The embattled black and whites' chief faces serious selection headaches this week after winger Matty Russell, fullback Jack Walker and hooker Danny Houghton had to leave the field at a sodden Stade Gilbert Brutus and there may be disciplinary issues for Jack Ashworth, who was sin-binned for a head clash with Dragons' prop Chris Satae.