Short turn around, which for me is good, but not for the players. Despite the fact they are as bad if not worst than us currently I really don't fancy is to win and have a feeling we might get beat easily.

Sneyd is out and Manu didn't look good.

Hopefully Connor, Talanoa and Thompson (guessing he was rested is back.)

Worried about Griffin, has been poor (not the only one) but reading his tweet I'm not sure his head is right.

Could we give Wray a game at 7, then use Connor in the centres, play someone out of position (Michaels, Thompson etc) or give Griffin another game?

Have to win one of the next two to have a chance of making the top 4.

Squad announced:

Shaul, Carlos, Griffin, Talanoa, Kelly, Houghton, Watts, Mini, Ellis, Connor, Green, Washy, Michaels, Manu, Bowden, Rawsthorne, Turgut, Downs, Fash

Interesting still no Thompson. Does that put his long term future in doubt?

Thompson is ill..

Thought it was strange

Dont be daft. We need a win to put those defeats behind us and get some momentum back into the season, but even if we lose both we will likely only be 1 point behind the 4 with 13 games left. Awful long way to go yet.

This is never an easy fixture, especially when you have a bunch of injuries, but Catalans look terrible. Would be very disappointing to lose this one.

Meant before the split to get the extra home game, looking at our fixtures we need to win 4/5 more games for that to happen, so I'd say we have to win one of the next two.

Fair enough. Even so theres still a long way to go even until the split. Admittedly I will be starting to get worried if we do lose both. I dont think we will though.

Catalans recall Aiton and Bird

Gigot, Inu, Yaha, Walsh, Myler, Moa, Aiton, Casty, Bird, Bousquet, Duport, Simon, Thornley, Albert, Da Costa, Seguier, Perez, Dezaria, Romano

Apart from Hull's poor current form there is the danger that Cats have been saving themselves for this and basically threw Friday's game - which would have been difficult for them even at full strength.

This certainly isn't an easy fixture and I'd ignore Friday. Bird back and new coach.

What was their excuse for all their other terrible performances lately?

Not making excuses but all were away fixtures apart from a narrow loss to the whinos at home. Home game before that they thrashed Salford. They are a different proposition at home plus they have got rid of a hopeless coach. Certainly not a fixture for Hull to get complacent about, they will need to be near their best to win it.

He was signed as your replacement for Yeaman, you needed someone new to repeatedly moan about.