Hull KR's 'Eden project' already bearing fruit
ON the evidence of last week's 44-18 win over Widnes, Hull KR's very own 'Eden project' looks like it can deliver plenty of success this season.
In a victory which marked Greg Eden's debut for the Robins, the full-back showed exactly how important he is to Craig Sandercock's side.
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Hull KR's Greg Eden
Impressive in pre-season wins against Wigan and Hull, fans saw the addition of the former Huddersfield man as crucial to the side's chances of starting the season well.
Unfortunately, a hamstring injury ruled him out for the first two games, both ending in defeats.
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Coincidence? Maybe. But after returning to help his new side to a win, Eden is glad to have lived up to expectation with a try on his competitive debut.
He explained: "I didn't know what to think when people talked me up, I just put it to the back of my mind.
"I wanted to get out and do what I had to do, so it was frustrating to be injured.
"It was very frustrating to get through the pre-season friendlies fine and then pull up in training with a hamstring injury.
"But it was good to get a try on my home debut and I'm looking to build on that against Salford and in the coming weeks."
Eden's absence for the defeats to Catalan and Wakefield forced Sandercock into a reshuffle, with Craig Hall filling in at full-back, despite being the ideal replacement for the suspended Travis Burns.
As a consequence, it weakened Rovers at half-back but the return of Eden, alongside Kris Welham and Rhys Lovegrove, strengthened the backs against Widnes, with Dave Hodgson the only one from that department not to score.
Facing a side vulnerable to leaking tries to opposing backs tomorrow night, 68 per cent of the 22 tries Salford have conceded this season have been scored by outside backs, Eden is hoping for another profitable game.
"It's exciting to hear that a lot of backs have scored against Salford and I'll be looking to have a decent game against them," he added.
"Our backs are young and exciting and the club's future looks good.
"We're all British too whereas a few clubs have overseas players at the back who are at the end of their careers."
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by kaifc
Sunday, February 24 2013, 8:32PM
“more like kat slater ha ha ha ha ha ha ha”
by drspock
Sunday, February 24 2013, 8:26PM
“great in defence hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha huddersfield knew what they were doing”
by hullkr117
Sunday, February 24 2013, 10:36AM
“Tis i Tezza of OZ .Edan looks all class .I see MikeHFC is back lol”
by Forest_1913
Saturday, February 23 2013, 3:05PM
“kaifc
Pearson has taken you from making a profit to losing £1.5million in less then 2 seasons.
Now your owner wants out and is refusing to speak to the press
You cannot afford pictures of a FC legend in your own rented stadium
The SMC are helping you survive but now they have had enough.
Is that the the go forward that you are talking about.
Gateshull will lose over £750,000 this year
DEC31VE
lol”
by kaifc
Saturday, February 23 2013, 2:46PM
“still got a
lot more than poor rovers tho”
by hkrarmy
Saturday, February 23 2013, 2:38PM
“kiafc i noticed your typing error ,you should of wrote
" mcdonnell moved to a team going nowhere with no money no future no fans no training pitch no ground no photos owner more interested in leeds united. ha ha ha ha"”
by kaifc
Saturday, February 23 2013, 1:07PM
“cause hes better than mcdonnell thats why he moved to a team going nowhere with no money no future no fans and mc did the opposite well done ha ha ha ha”
by MikeHKR
Saturday, February 23 2013, 12:59PM
“Not sure how good he is yet he's spent most of the time in the treatment room”
by 11pointsbelow
Saturday, February 23 2013, 12:59PM
“thought he was still huddersfields eden project!!!!
hows your mate larvin slammer money in the bank is it!, have you got the right position this week slammer you fraud!!!
forest hows god larvin what a pair of planks!!”
by Dr_Slammer
Saturday, February 23 2013, 8:36AM
“forest, totally agree with you.
I like the 'Eden Project' pun by the author of the article, but if his debut is anything to go by (and his early season form for the Giants last season) he ain't no 'project'. Yeh, he isn't the finished article but he isn't that far away from being a very accomplished full back.”