We haven't beaten a team in the top 5 since February, right? Form against bottom clubs is nice but not always a great predictor against ones with marquee players, and 3 years since a play off win. Would be amazed if it were a comfortable win.

A Sneyd special one pointer will do, even a golden point win, come on yu ullaaa

If you raise the bar high enough (eg comfortable win), then there's plenty of room to whinge and moan if we don't quite manage it.

Whilst I don't agree with Bonaire's comfortable win, I can't agree with your tedious pessimism.

It's knock out rugby, we seem to have found a little bit of form and are ourselves paying over the salary cap with the likes of Fonua and Ma'u and our other quality recruitment.
Let's not down play how expensive and how good our squad actually is, it's just been mismanaged.

Whilst not expecting a victory I'll remain optimistic that we turn up and have a dig for the full 80 minutes.

I agree, I hope we turn up and have a dig for 80 minutes, and would be disappointed if we don't put everything into it. But the point stands. Expecting a comfortable win when we've only beaten Leeds in the top 6 and our aggregate score against Warrington is 16-75 this year makes little sense to me. I'll check the match odds if I can find them.

Edit - Paddy Power have a comfortable Hull win (13+) 6/1.

Hopefully Connor is fit to play and our forwards get stuck in.

And on the flip side, you be that pessimistic that you can make excuses for every poor performance and say you expected it anyway because of blah blah blah. I personally don’t think we’ll beat Warrington, but I do expect to give them a very good game

I agree a comfortable win is out the question and Wolves are favourites for a reason but we have a quality team put together at some expense and if it fires and fires well then the game is not a forgone conclusion.

A good performance is all I ask irrespective of the result.
I hope Last keeps Connor at fb, puts Griffin into the centres and is brave enough to stick Mcnamara in the halves, instead of Griffin to fb.

Remind me when I've been pessimistic before a game.

Wasn’t talking about you

I'm optimistic under Last
Last time they steam roller we us down the middle, with Taylor back and with Sao, Satae and Bowden all fit and in form I don't think itl be as straight forward, plus Savelio and Mau.

Tough team Warrington, but with abit of luck you never know, itl definatley be an arm wrestle, I just think Austin will put them in better field position , as Sneyds been poor, hopefully Connors on fire and isn't side tracked by his ongoing spats with Hill

If we lose, we lose. If we win, then on goes the journey. Pre-lockdown this season was bound for nothing, so appearing in the playoffs, as haphazard as they may be, is still a success. Warrington have held the victory sign over us in recent games but at the moment there is no reason why we can't match them on the night. Let's see what Thursday brings...

Think we must leave Conner at full back where he seems to be more effective at the moment. He could turn into a 6 in the future but certainly has a lot to do to convince the majority of fans.
I would put McNamara at 6 with the job of putting Austin under pressure and restricting his kicking game which I think is the only way we can win the game. Macs defence is pretty good and he is quick off the line. We have the forwards and outside backs to get the job done but Sneed needs to up his game considerably which he has done in the past in big games. Hopeful!!!!!!!

not sure he will play mac, hes done ok but in a big game might be exposed, for me start connor/ tuime at 6, griffin to FB,

anything can happen in a cuptie,but to be fair hull have yet to beat anyone of note these last few weeks..will have to raise game to win,but its not out of question.

I hope that Last has learnt from the Wigan cup game and starts with a strong side, personally I'd move Carlos to 6 and start with Houghton and Sao.