I'm quietly confident that our middles can handle their middles.Our main problem will be obviously Lewis, but he has flaws in his game, which can be exploited, ie. defensively and easily wound up.

Cartwright indicated he's seeking clarification, on Cust's availablity.
"Cade got a head knock. We'll just have to get clarification on that. He didn't go back on. I'm not sure if that was our call or not. We'll have to check on that."

Malicious or not, cust went off with concussion and will miss our biggest game of the season so far.  It's the tackling player who has a duty of care to the player with the ball and senior should have done better.  The game faces a massive legal challenge on CTE and concussion management that could put the future of the sport in jeopardy and has to protect players better than it has in the past.

As for burough and Knicght, there was nothing in any of those challenges to warrant any major sanction and the Burough "hip drop" was proven not to be one at all

Rovers 1/4 favourites on Skybet. Pray for Hull.

Aydin trained today, Hardaker will train on Wednesday. 


Bourouh, Eseh, Charles and Callum Kemp all available for selection.

Some decisions to be made,  do we bring Aydin straight back in or play eseh?  Pryce or one of the young half's?  (We all know the answer to that)

Looks like Holmes is back in training too although I guess Saturday might be too soon for a return to the first team.

Is he in any of the training stuff?

https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/hull-fc-dealt-injury-setback-as-forward-ruled-out-for-two-months-103104/ Cartwright out 8 weeks, Holmes not in full training yet. Sounds like Aydin could be back. Bourouh, Eseh should be good too. Hardaker has a chance

https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/hull-fc-dealt-injury-setback-as-forward-ruled-out-for-two-months-103104/ Cartwright out 8 weeks, Holmes not in full training yet. Sounds like Aydin could be back. Bourouh, Eseh should be good too. Hardaker has a chance

He posted a photo saying "9 month hiatus over, good to be back!"

If Pryce is to start on bench, I’d be looking to put Chamberlain at 6 I think, obviously not going to get any attacking output from him but hopefully he can help shore that right hand side up until Pryce can come on.


Rapana
Briscoe
Hardaker
Litten
Martin
Chamberlain
Sezer


Ese’ese
Bourouh
Aydin
Fash
Lane
Asiata


Pryce
Ashworth
Knight
Eseh

Pryce plays for me with instructions of 'do whatever the you want' to a degree, without necessarily overplaying with his passing game.
He's obviously not going to be familiar with all our plays so I'd just say to him go out there and just play eyes up rugby the full game. Run the ball as much as possible at Lewis and get him moving in defence, he's quite flat footed in defence and very susceptible to been beaten by a good step. Make him move and send a lot of traffic his way.
We're already mightily up against it, Rovers look red hot at the moment and we're missing a lot of bodies. Give them something extra to think out. As long as Pryce physically and mentally feels good enough to get on the pitch then we have to take the chance. Even if it means dropping  him next week against Warrington and giving him a couple more weeks to get to grips with things, because at least Cust will be back for that one.