Hope it will be both a big crowd and a good game. Gareth has been a great servant to RL and all the teams he has played for - particularly Wakefield and Hull so it would be an appropriate match to give him a big send off.

Apparently Rovers fans are arranging a plane with a banner saying "Rovers are back" or similar for the game. Will we be able to see it in the dark?

As strong a squad as we could hope for at this time of the season. With absolutely no disrespect intended, as they've been fantastic this year, if we can't beat Wakefield at home with minimal injuries we don't deserve to be in with a chance of top 4.

OT - Luke Gale has caught appendicitis off Chris Green, and is out for the rest of the season.

On their forum they reckon it's a smokescreen and he was always going to be rested for the next two games. The definitive made up #timelyboost if so.

It's the same one that they used at the start of this season.

The Championship always needs a strong Hull Kingston Rovers!

If it was simply a message board rumour I reckon you would be right, that is on their official web site and the YEP website suggests otherwise.

For us to get third it's looking like we'll need to win both of our games and hope Wigan lose 1 . With cas playing us both I wonder if they have a preference who they play in the semi , and might change how they approach both games coming up . I can't see them fancying playing us after our games this season . I don't fear cas but I'd prefer Leeds in the semi .

to be honest i dont think they will fancy playing us or Wigan.
Like you i would prefer to play at leeds.

Yes I agree but if they beat Wigan this week I reckon saints would sneak 4th so I could be interesting to see if they go out on Friday to beat Wigan .

Got a feeling we'll get most of the 50/50 ref decisions in this one as they try to make up for the ridiculous red card decision.

I really hope not, just call it fairly & consistently. I just want to watch an FC game where the main topic of conversation/frustration post-match isn't how crap the ref was.

Playing either of you two at Old Trafford might cause them problems, but tbf I don't think they fear either of you or anybody else for that matter at home.

At home they're almost unplayable. They know exactly how to extract every advantage from playing on that smaller pitch and it works.

Away from Wheldon Rd they're much less effective (at home I think they've scored 570pts in 15 games vs 340pts in 13 away games). For the most part their tactics work too, but when they've come up against us, they struggle to find a plan B.