What we reckon? Tough assignment as KR have had good consecutive wins. Kris Welham back in tryscoring form. We need all our horses (as nobby would say) healthy.....Fozzy back to kick and Chev should be ok. Hopefully Matty Blythe will recover the Widnes Concrete pitch!!

Need franny to give them a rollicking after the debackle at widnes, no point in feeling sorry for a team with 12 men and letting guad down we have to go for the kill, when we can.

KR are beatable as a couple of teams have proved if we stop Dobson get 2 men into him rough him up abit we can start to turn the screw and go on to win.

John Bateman to come back in for me. He's had 2 games in the academy and for me should play, whether he is on the bench or starting. I also think we will need Foster back and at least one of the three injured players from Friday night to be playing.

Agree Charge, Bateman returning could be the spark we need. Id keep Blythe and one of walker/langley out of the team to recover, bateman and foster back, whitehead to centre and bateman or donno at LF.

Blythe and Langley are definitely out for kr game afaik. Walker should be ok. Foster and Bateman to return.

Bateman will be a huge lift to the squad, he adds a real running threat with the ball down the edges. Gone a little quiet on Gale again, shouldn't he be close to a return given the last update we had?

KR have some good backs and big mobile forwards but close down Dobson and they are rudderless IMO, easier said than done but very beatable.

Travis Burns?

HKR very much like us in terms of strengths and weaknesses. Should be a close game.

I too am a bit worried about Gale and hope he's back soon. Good that Bateman's back though.

Not just me who is half expecting an announcement stating he needs another op and will miss a further 3 months then? Hopefully we will hear some positive news on this soon!

What about him?

We've had Travis Burns back for the last two games. No coincidence that we are more steady in defence and don't have to rely on Dobson which gives him more time to kick us round the park.

He is our stand-off and marquee signing this season.

The Bradford game will be his third outing so I'm guessing we'll start to see him step it up a gear.

Fair enough, i've not seen enough of this Burns to judge but i still believe Dobson is your best player and organiser in chief. Without Dobson KR are average IMO. Should be a tight game as he is fit

In the opening 6 rounds these two teams have scored 355 points for - but conceeeded 280 - so should be an interesting game. The Team which keeps its defensive shape and discipline to win for me, so shame if Langley is out he he does more than his share of tackling. If we play like we did at Huddersfield we should get the points.