On balance of probabilities it'll be a patched up side. At a guess

Rankin
Lancaster
Michaels
Yeaman
Talanoa
Pryce
Sneyd
Watts
Houghton
Paea
Hadley
Minichiello
Abdull?

Feka
Bowden
Thompson
Cunningham?

Assumes Shaul, Sa, Lineham, Ellis, Westerman, Whiting and Green unavailable. Good luck to whoever has to mark Carney.

Bookies got it pretty much bang on, unfortunately!

Must admit I'm coming round to that way of thinking. Going forward we look clueless. I said on Twitter that we're not that far off and the stats show that, but we have nothing when we need to turn the stats into points.

AP needs to exercise his authority and either get rid of Radford or force an attacking coach on him. There's an ok side there that can't convert pressure into tries and that cannot be allowed to continue.

We are just so predictable in "attack". There's no craft, skill or spark. It's barge and then kick for the vast majority of the sets. Our passing is pedestrian - the opposition has no trouble in tracking where the ball goes.

You watch Castleford with the ball last night and they looked dangerous. We didn't look like scoring even with a fresh set of six on their 20 yard line.

I'm also thinking that way in that there isn't much fundamentally wrong and its this strange paradox (carrying on from last season) where the stats show Hull to be a 7-8 place side but the actual points total is bottom of the table stuff. Perhaps in a different season you could hold on and see if this sorts itself out but there isn't that luxury this season. You can be unlucky - but only for so long and that time is upon us. If there is no return from the Easter weekend then a big shake up of the coaching structure becomes imperative.

So given Snyed is injured; guess we'll go with Pryce and Rankin in the halves and Shaul back in at full back. That could be interesting, at least Rankin looks to be trying something different.