Dean Muir has called on his experienced players to guide Hunslet through a tricky last fixture of the season away to Midlands Hurricanes.
The Parksiders have already beaten Midlands at home and away (in Sheffield) but visit the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham for the first time this Saturday (Aug 31st 2pm).
“It’s a weird one playing loop games.” said Muir “They have got better since we last met and have secured the Play-off’s under Coach Mark Dunning. They are direct, tough and physical, have a good attacking shape and will be on home soil. So, we need to be on it.”
“After last week’s defeat at Keighley, I’ll be leaning on my experienced players to turn out, get the basics right and right a few wrongs.”
Despite last week’s defeat at Cougar Park Hunslet will still have two bites of the cherry in the play-offs. All that is to be determined this week is whether they host or must travel to Rochdale Hornets in the first game.
Still, the defeat smarted having won at Cougar Park earlier in the season. “We were naïve with and without the ball at Keighley.” said Muir “Their experienced players showed up whilst we didn’t do the basics right.
“We will need to beat Keighley at some point if we hope to get promoted so we must control our emotions.
“We can’t be externally affected and can’t react to things we cannot control. We must be better at reacting and move onto the next job mentally.”
Hunslet name an unchanged squad from last week, but as ever at this time of the season there are knocks and a few players are carrying injuries so will be monitored before Saturday.
Aaron Levy is again missing, but is being monitored for the play-offs.
