Castleford Tigers have been dealt a huge blow ahead of this week’s Challenge Cup tie with the news that Ryan Hampshire has suffered a big injury.
Hampshire played in the reserves last weekend and Radford told the Yorkshire Post: “He has broken his hand.
“He is devastated. He sees a specialist tomorrow [Thursday] and if we can get him back earlier it will be a massive boost.”
Cheyse Blair is also out for the Tigers after cutting open his hand in last week’s defeat to Wigan Warriors, but Alex Sutcliffe, Nathan Massey, Liam Watts, Adam Milner and Niall Evalds could all come into contention.
They will take on a Leeds Rhinos side this Saturday afternoon who no longer have Richard Agar in charge after the former Wakefield Trinity and Hull FC boss left his post on Monday.
Leeds’ interim head coach Jamie Jones-Buchanan praised Agar for his work at the club.
“I would be the first to recognise that every coach wants to leave the club in a better place than when they came in and Richard Agar did that no doubt.
“We were battling relegation when he first came in, we went through Covid, environmental issues at Kirkstall and so much stuff that he had to pick up and he did that.”
