Johnstone has to stay in the team for me. We've been blessed that Houghton has rarely got injured and been able to handle 80 minutes. But with him another year older and the mountain of work he does in defence we would surely benefit from giving him more rest. Personally I'd like to see us start with Johnstone and bring Danny on later for his little darting runs.

"Albert's raring to go."

Must have missed that then

For me bring Swift in for Brett F
Fonua has to play even if 75% match fit
The best way to get fit is Matches !!
BUT who moves aside ?
Have him on the bench as impact with Kelly and 2 forwards
Houghton to miss out ?

I’d just love the 2 points - a performance like the Leeds one may be a touch hard if 5 day turnaround at this stage of the season

A win will suffice for me

When did we sign Brett Ferris?

you are responding to a poster who thinks 75% fit is best improved by game time!

Sales looking very good, have to advise people to get to the ground early!

Traffic has been a nightmare in Hull for weeks with several roads shut, Walton Street is meant to have reopened but several deadlines have been and gone so it's not guaranteed.

Went to City-Chelsea the other week and several turnstiles in west upper were broken so it took 40mins to get in!

New passes have been issued for this season, and of course there will be many on paper print at home tickets so can add to delays at the turnstyles.

Sadly the ground seems to have lost the ability to handle big crowds since the move to automated turnstiles and the stewards didn't seem to take any action to help shift the crowd.

Good point, well presented.

If a player hasn’t played how does he get 100% match fit ?

I don’t know why I’m even responding to this

Must admit the usual “you can never predict a Derby” age old adage has been proved to be the sensible opinion, but after watching that totally professional destruction of Leeds, and the very best ever first outing performance, I have had the privilege to witness, on this rare occasion I feel we are too good for our neighbors, he says with a large gulp!

They've opened another section of the upper West stand, very similar to last year at this stage in terms of crowd

I would like to agree with you, but for two things:

1) Consistency

2) Home game

If we can significantly improve on these then yes.
So for me at this moment in time it's still “you can never predict a Derby”