I know we were poor in the cup but do you really think you only need to bring 15 players on sunday?

Wellens
Makinson
Shenton
Meli
Foster
Pryce
Lomax
LMS
Moore
Clough
Flannery
Sia
Wilkin

Roby
Gaskell
Hale
Ashurst/Dixon

I'd give hale a run out tbh. Think we are far to light in the pack and Roby off the bench against a tiring defence could be a way of upping the ante for us if were struggling plus he could do with a bit a break to freshen up. If the pack wasn't so light I'd have give him the weekend off. ashurst / Dixon as has been discussed to death are too similar and too alike ect....... That's why I'd give hale a go to see what he can do as he did well last time out.

Don't worry the mighty Flanno is back............

Probably Hull KR is one of the better teams to play when very light on the bench as they don't have any really huge guys themselves, do they? They also like to throw the ball around and stuff rather than do the barge business. So although we are excessively lean on the forwards, if the two remaining do their jobs properly and Scotty and the young crew play as hard as they did last week, we should still be in with a chance.

Valid comments although i reckon we will go with a third prop at 13 this week and play a tighter game in order to try and take advantage of your lack of front rowers. If we try to play an open game then we will lose, i reckon our players and coaching staff know that.
Maybe we can cut loose and throw the ball about in the final quarter when we have worn you down. Or maybe i'm just seriously over-optimistic.

Props Shmops!!!

Under Ian Millward we had a Championship winning team and we usually only had 1 maybe two props. They are slow and get in the way!!!

As for Saddeneds theory about losing being a sign of impending doom. We haven't won on humberside (Hull or Hull KR) for over 2 years.

Don't give him more ammo, he'll just say he's been predicting this doom for the last 3 years.

1. Paul Wellens,
3. Michael Shenton, 28. Tom Makinson,
5. Francis Meli, 22. Jamie Foster,
6. Leon Pryce, 20. Jonny Lomax,

15. Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook, 9. James Roby, 16. Paul Clough,
13. Chris Flannery, 4. Sia Soliola,
12. Jon Wilkin,

14. Scott Moore, 18. Matty Ashurst, 19. Andrew Dixon, 29. Scott Hale.


This would be my choice, hope Royce drops the back replacement idea for this week, we are not short in the backs, in fact as far as our back line goes, that's pretty much a first choice back line. Ok some wil argue eastmond, but I think come playoffs and GF, eastmond would still only make bench.

Also our pack bar props are also first choice. Realistically we are 3 players off a first choice team,, so we should have enough to manage. dixon and Ashurst had decent games last week. I'd expect an intense 1st 30 from our pack to try and really take the energy out of the KR players. Then some rotation of LMS and Clough with Soliola stepping up to prop maybe. The rest filling the spots behind.

It's a goodd team and only Perry, TP and Graham would walk into this team, the rest are there on merit.

This is the Hull KR squad

1. Shaun Briscoe, 3. Kris Welham, 4. Jake Webster, 6. Blake Green, 7. Michael Dobson, 9. Ben Fisher, 11. Clint Newton, 12. Ben Galea, 13. Scott Murrell, 14. Liam Watts, 15. Scott Wheeldon, 16. Jason Netherton, 18. Josh Hodgson, 19. Craig Hall, 20. Michael Vella, 21. Sam Latus, 22. Scott Taylor, 27. Jordan Cox, 30. Liam Salter.


So looking at this I have to agree with Saints fan, they are not really threatening with huge pack either, and our backs on paper should beat their backs man for man. In fact would you swap any player in our probable starting 13?

Disappointing that we have our two biggish props injured in Lovegrove and Clinton so I think the game will be fairly matched in the forward department..

It's not disappointing to me! We have four of our props injured at the moment.

4 props????


TP

Perry

Graham

?????

Magennis