Hull FC will be without Amir Bourouh and Ed Chamberlain next week when they head to Wigan Warriors in Super League. The Black and Whites pair failed head injury assessments on Thursday night as Hull snapped their MKM Stadium hoodoo and claimed their first win in a year on home soil.
It was a hard fought contest with the FC having to come from 10 points behind to record their 16-10 victory and it came at a price. Ed Chamberlain took a blow to the head in the first half and couldn’t return and Bourouh met the same fate in the second, with the hooker being replaced by Jack Charles.
Cartwright confirmed that both were unable to re-enter the contest after their HIAs and the head coach even hinted that Chamberlain could be looking at a longer lay off due to the number of head injuries he has picked up this season.
“Yeah, so I believe,” Cartwright said when asked about the HIAs. “Amir and Ed couldn’t come back on.
“Ed put some kick pressure on and copped a ball in the head. He’s had a couple this year. I’m not sure what the outcome will be there. I’ll find out more when I talk to the doctor.”
On Bourouh, he added: “There was a bit of incidental contact there in a tackle. He got in an awkward situation. I’ll have to watch the replays and check that, but he failed his HIA, and that means he’s unavailable next week.”
Hull FC boss explains Jed Cartwright withdrawal
There was some concern around Jed Cartwright in the second half, too, as the back-rower left the fray in the 58th minute before being shown on the big screen icing his hamstring. The head coach has moved to allay any further injury fears, though.
“Jed was alright,” Cartwright said. “The plan was always to play him for sixty minutes. We probably pushed him out a touch longer just through the fact of the head knocks and our interchange. We used more than we planned.”
On the images of him with an ice pack on his leg, the boss said: “It’s just treatment, the physios weren’t worried and he felt nothing go, he started to cramp up a little bit and it was right on the time that the physios said ‘try not to go beyond 60 minutes with him’.
“He got to the 60-minute mark and it was our seventh interchange, we just had to make it because he was starting to cramp up.”
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