Fingers crossed for Saturday Rovers seem to raise their game for us and for the Magic games.

Didn't we beat Cas up in Bonnie Scotland one year for Magic?

Cricky its a derby, form can go out the window and it is rovers grand final,saying all that i think we will win but be happy with a 1 point win, or maybe a bit more

In response to the thread title: I'd love that but not sure it will happen.

We got a good win on Friday night and it was good to see that huddle at the end keeping the players feet on the ground. I don't think we'll have any problems getting ourselves up for the derby this time and with Holdsworth and Ellis playing and the form Horney's in, I believe we have a good chance.

But Rovers posted a big score past Wakey yesterday which will give them confidence going into this game. And we all know they never have any problems getting themselves up for a derby.

As it's a derby then form will go out the window. It will boil down to which team wants it more on the day. I hope that's us.

Fingers crossed for me, no over expectation in my mind. If we play like against wire, then we should do it. But you never know how we or rovers will turn up

This game will solely go down to how Rovers perform in defence. If we defend as normal then its a mute point, game will be over before half time.

If we avoid giving penalties away and putting the ball down we will have more ball in hand and less opportunity to concede points. Not the worst defence high up the field, but on the line is woeful.

FC's defence will stand up, Rovers will score points if down that end, makes for an interesting game. Not anymore confident because of yesterdays result, not really confident at all. Goes one of 2 ways, Rovers sneak a win (obviously my preferred) or FC run away with it. Defence, errors and discipline are key, unfortunately 9/10 Rovers are awful on all 3.

I'm glad Rovers won yesterday. It should avoid any over-confidence on our players' part after Friday.

I think it will be a close game.

I'm hoping for a rovers win but in a way won't be too surprised with a big loss. All the good victories we've had have really been papering over the cracks.

Any one who thinks it really does need to have a reality check,IMO posts suggesting a spanking for kr are doing sandercocks team talk for him.
They have already kicked our butt once,they also have already beaten wire and would be level on points with a victory some of our fans really do set us up for a mighty fall sometimes.

Should be a good game and pretty free flowing I reckon. Likely to be one of the best games of the weekend IMO

I'd of bin more confident on saturday if rovers had lost against wakey

both teams attack well, ours is really starting to resemble how we were with Barnett in the team, i think our defence will dominate and our new fluent attack we seem to be deveolping will win it for us, if we'd had any sort of attacking play on good friday we'd have won that day too, they weren't better we were just god dammed awful and gifted them the game! In my opinion of course!

Just by not being as awful as us is being better.

Danny Houghton - ""We owe them one. We enjoyed the Warrington win, but knuckled down again yesterday to get the hard work done." Doesn't sound like they're getting complacent, which is key. www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... z2T9OsogL1

Danny Houghton - ""We owe them one. We enjoyed the Warrington win, but knuckled down again yesterday to get the hard work done." Doesn't sound like they're getting complacent, which is key. www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... z2T9OsogL1

I suspect a few rovers fans will have bookmarked this thread should the result go their way on Saturday.