It is. It's a long list of absentees for us whichever way you look at it against a team above us. Challenge will be containing Fifita and Pauli Pauli.

Definitely. Bring Kelly off the bench and try to take advantage when their big lads start to tire in the second half.

Wynne, Logan, Carlos, Griffin, Fariamo, Connor, Sneyd, Tag, Mint, Paea, Hadley, Manu, Westerman Subs Ellis, Green, Masi and Kelly. Griffin to move to 2nd row when Kelly comes on.

Jordan Lane was in for a scan mid week. Hopefully he is ok but the last I heard he was still waiting to learn the full extent of his injury. As of the beginning of this week Jack Brown was fit and expecting to make his first start on Sunday. Not sure if he has had a recurrence or if he will be a late inclusion.

No look in for Jez Litten over Easter is harsh to say the least. He'd be daft to stay at the club any longer than necessary.

Brown twisted his ankle so another two weeks

Apart from playing against Saints.

Yeah I'm a bit more nervous now as our teams not as bad as first feared. You're right the loss of the H/Bs is a loss but is compensated for by the return of both hookers. So we have less excuses now

Didn't even realise. Still, a second rower starting at hooker ahead of you isn't good.

Maybe it was "tactics", we were winning 10-0 after 17 minutes, and Litten came on 2 minutes later.

I've nothing against Litten, I rate him, but Houghton is still a hard act to follow.

Getting our excuses in already I see , you do talk complete , we should be winning this

Can't argue with that, got the choice of putting connor to fb and Kelly at 6 to depending how Wynne's going, that's a strong 17

They didnt tire very much when we last played them

Yes i would go with that team too.Whilst i like Jack Logan, Ratu for me is the better defender and brings the ball out much stronger

Faraimo and Logan both doubts as well with dead legs. Oh no.

Indeed. A contrast with our position unfortunately. Hopefully a close game.

What is it with Hull and injuries over the last year or so? I ask because unlike say Wakefield you seem to get a lot of yours in training rather than matches, late withdrawals or am I wrong, just seems that way to an outsider.

In fairness we had very good runs with injuries in 2016 and 2017, which the clubs in the pack ruing to challenge need to have to win trophies. From last season's game at Fev to now though it's been ridiculous. Not sure the mix of those done in training vs on matchday but I don't think it's conditioning as we have the same team as the years we won trophies. Either way we're pushing double digit absentees again right now when we would have hoped to be back to almost full strength. A lot of teams struggling in this regard, look at Leeds.

Looking forward to this one , near full strength 17, a few rested Monday , only Shaul, mini and Bowden who hasn’t played yet this season missing , going for for a comfortable 36-18 win

Out of your list of 10, as it's been pointed out, only 4 would be considered in the starting 17.

We have a squad of approximately 32 this season to lessen the impact of injuries, although you're setting up the injuries as a reason or justification for a loss should it happen, as you always do. Be more confident like me



We should be winning Sunday when you look at the respective teams regardless, Wakey are missing key personnel in the halfs. Fiffita aside we should be dominating them.
I am confident of the win Sunday.

Make your mind up. You either knock her for being overly positive or knock her for being negative.

Made me smile!

As George Galloway once said to Saddam Hussein, I salute your indefatigability.

Same setup as vs rovers

Allowing

Players places are theirs to lose now should be the message.

Thank you. I [uam[/u in rude health. Although pretty sure the nail I just broke at Pilates would be season-ending if assessed by Sheens' ToD.

No excuses. We rested players on Monday, they have a worse injury situation than us, we spend more on our squad than they do, and we are at home. We should be winning this one.

It's not win or bust, but if we lose I will really start to doubt our ability to make a mark this year. Our two best wins this year have been against very inconsistent teams (Salford and Catalans), we need to lay a marker down by winning convincingly against good opposition, and I think we can call Wakefield that these days.

It's a big game. We could be 3rd on our own, and that would be hugely encouraging considering we haven't even come close to our best yet.