Hull KR dealt major blow as key forward to miss start of Super League season
Sam Luckley looks set to miss the start of the 2025 season.
Hull KR have been rocked with a major pre-season blow – after forward Sam Luckley was forced to undergo wrist surgery that will rule him out of the start of the new Super League season.
Luckley has grown into one of the Robins‘ most consistent and important forwards since joining the club from Salford Red Devils at the beginning of the 2023 campaign.
He has made over 50 appearances for the Robins, and featured in last season’s Super League Grand Final defeat to Wigan Warriors.
He has become a firm fixture in Willie Peters’ sides during Rovers’ emergence as a major threat in Super League in the last two years – but they will be without him for the beginning of the new campaign.
Luckley has been forced to go under the knife after picking up a wrist problem in the early stages of pre-season. That will rule him out of full training for around ten weeks, taking him through to the beginning of February.
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Rovers begin their new Super League campaign in the early stages of that month, meaning they will almost certainly be without Luckley for the big kick-off in two months.
The 28-year-old will be a sore miss for Peters and Rovers as they look to back up this season’s heroics in Super League.
The injury blow leaves the door ajar for the likes of mid-season recruit Jack Brown to force his way into Peters’ plans in the early weeks of the new season before Luckley returns to full fitness.
But there is no doubting he will leave a major gap in Rovers’ pack as they look to once again mount a push towards another major final in 2025.
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