{"id":868363,"date":"2026-04-03T02:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/868363\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T02:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:25:20","slug":"hull-fc-send-forward-duo-out-on-loan-to-championship-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/868363\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull FC send forward duo out on loan to Championship club"},"content":{"rendered":"

A loan move for two Hull FC forwards.<\/p>\n

16:15, 02 Apr 2026Updated 17:19, 02 Apr 2026<\/p>\n

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Hull FC forward Will Kirby. <\/p>\n

Hull FC forward duo Will Kirby and Joe Phillips have joined Championship side Hunslet on loan. The pair will feature for the Leeds-based side away at Keighley Cougars this Easter weekend.<\/p>\n

Kirby made his Hull first-team debut away at Salford Red Devils in 2024, adding a couple more appearances to his total last year, and while named in 21-man squad’s this season, he has yet to make a senior appearance in 2026, instead playing for the club’s reserves side. The move is the back rower’s second loan stint at Hunslet, having played eight games during a spell with the Parksiders last year.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Phillips, signed from Goole<\/a> Vikings ahead of the 2026 season, has also been playing for Hull’s reserves after overcoming a pre-season leg injury. He is yet to make his first-team debut but along with Kirby, will gain some valuable first-team experience for Kyle Trout’s side, who have won one of their opening seven games in the second tier.<\/p>\n

The duo follow on from Matty Laidlaw, who played for Hunslet last month before being recalled by Hull to feature in Super League. The Hull-born prop is in the 21-man squad ahead of Good Friday’s derby against Hull KR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A club statement read: “Hull FC<\/a> can confirm that Joe Phillips and Will Kirby have joined Hunslet RLFC on an initial one-week loan. The pair will be available to feature in Saturday’s Betfred Championship clash against Keighley Cougars.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A loan move for two Hull FC forwards. 16:15, 02 Apr 2026Updated 17:19, 02 Apr 2026 Hull FC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4102],"tags":[115424,4151,6531,79,16,15,122037],"class_list":["post-868363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-hull-fc","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-will-kirby"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116338407945480888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}