aye, but that's frowned upon in public, usually

just watched the highlights of the bradford v wakey game and whilst bradford scored some good tries, it has to be said there was some truly shocking tackling attempts from the wakefield side so the large margin of victory owed as much to wakey's errors as bradfords good play. in fact though i've only seen highlights, all of the games seemed to show some pretty poor defensive efforts. hopefully we can put this down to the early season

FC smarting over last weeks loss at leeds, bradford brimming with confidence after totally destroying a surprisingly very poor, semingly complacent wakefield team (by observation) and will want revenge for the total utter and complete mullering you gave us at Odsal at the end of last season! hard to call this one, whoever gets on top and in front by a couple of scores first will win, hopefully us!

Which all suggests it should be quite an interesting game...!

I doubt any Bulls fan is expecting to come across anything like such a shambles of an opposition pack as we did on Sunday. Santa only comes once a year, after all. Friday will be a very much bigger ask.

Agree with that but the issue I have is our attack was appauling. Hardly any line breaks and no offloads. Leeds defence was excellent but if we don't improve we will lose as Bulls have points in them.

We should win the game if we play well.

I have them down as deffo top 6 IMO paulm

Ive got a sweepstake running on the first time Briscoe gets Booed or told to F Off to Oz ,

12 mins is mine

First time he makes any kind of mistake.

No idea about the wakefield game but Bradford played really well against us (Leeds) in the pre season game, they were fit, fast and up for the game, far from the number maker uppers they were last year.

Do i have to take the warmu up into account, this could prove tricky

knowing some on here it would include him getting on the bus ffs

Crooks in for Ellis:

Hull FC squad: Arundel, Briscoe, Crookes, Crooks, Galea, Green, Heremaia, Holdsworth, Horne, Houghton, Johnson, Lynch, McDonnell, O’Meley, Pitts, Seymour, Westerman, Whiting, Yeaman

Disappointed that Tickle still isn't back.

I'd go with a big starting pack in this one, so would bring Johnson into the 13 from last weekend to start at loose forward with Galea on the bench.

That also gives us better opportunities to rotate Whiting and Westerman for 20 minutes each to stop them getting burnt out.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's a must win. But I won't be happy going to Saints on the back of a loss. We could then quite easily be 0 from 3.