"Thursday’s game will not make or break Hull FC's season in the same way it might for Rovers" say the Rovers reporter in the HDM.

Still, not much different to getting the coach back from Wigan / Widnes.

It would be the effect of playing in the heat which may have been a bigger factor

The main problem teams now have in their planning, is that we have recently become multi- dimensional in attack. Therefore very hard to plan against, no matter who is playing.

Quote: bonaire "You have obviously not flown to Perpignan from Humberside as Hull Fc do. By jet its approx 2hours and 10 minutes Hull charter an Eastern Airways aircraft on this occasion a Saab 2000 which is a fast prop aircraft but it takes a little longer 2 hours 30 minutes'" They must have had a following wind then because the flight took 2 hours 13 minutes and they were back at Humberside by eleven pm https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... z#20ffbfb0

Quote: bonaire "You have obviously not flown to Perpignan from Humberside as Hull Fc do. By jet its approx 2hours and 10 minutes Hull charter an Eastern Airways aircraft on this occasion a Saab 2000 which is a fast prop aircraft but it takes a little longer 2 hours 30 minutes'" They must have had a following wind then because the flight took 2 hours 13 minutes and they were back at Humberside by eleven pm https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... z#20ffbfb0

I hope we wipe the floor with them but just have a sneaky feeling it could be one of those games where we're not on it from the off and get turned over easily. I expect them to start with masoe and garbutt and try to hit us hard early on.

We need a win to keep the pressure on wire who could lose this weekend although I expect saints to send a weakened side to them and wire to pick up the points

Tough one this, as much as I want to beat KR I would love to contribute to sending Leeds down.

There’s nowt tough about it, what Leeds n Rovers do is irrelevant to us, take points of both if possible, and try and catch the Wire.

“The end bit sounds like a Donovan song”

Good points.

No bad news...…


1. Jamie Shaul, 2. Bureta Faraimo, 3. Carlos Tuimavave, 4. Josh Griffin, 6. Albert Kelly, 7. Marc Sneyd, 8. Scott Taylor, 9. Danny Houghton, 10. Josh Bowden, 11. Dean Hadley, 12. Mark Minichiello, 13. Joe Westerman, 14. Jake Connor, 15. Chris Green, 20. Brad Fash, 21. Sika Manu, 23. Mickey Paea, 33. Ratu Naulago, 35. Andre Savelio

Mini and Carlos replace Buchanan and Washbrook

Rovers (18 man squad): Chris Atkin, Ben Crooks, Josh Drinkwater, Mitch Garbutt, Craig Hall, Weller Hauraki, Luis Johnson, George Lawler, Tommy Lee, Kane Linnett, Harvey Livett, Danny McGuire, Mose Masoe, Robbie Mulhern, Daniel Murray, Adam Quinlan, Ryan Shaw, Joel Tomkins.

Full strength, besides Ellis.

It's been a long time coming.

I expect Hadley to miss out, the other one is tough. A lot will think Fash, but he's been going well in this current 4 game winning run. Someone is going to be unhappy to miss out on the Derby decider.

With Matongo and Lane also missing. Good squad depth

Not to mention youngsters Wynne, Buchanan and Brown, who have all shown good signs for the future, when they've come in.

Backs pick themselves

Pack

Taylor
Houghton
Paea
Griffin
Mini
Westerman

Bowden
Green
Mini
Savelio

Our strongest squad, but I've said that a few times and players seem to drop out.

Rovers also have their strongest squad of the season and will add Parcel aswell.

It will be a tough game

He may revert back to keeping Kelly out of the early exchanges, and bring him off the bench, like he was doing earlier in the season. Although since then Kelly has improved and it would take a brave man to stick him on the bench.