If you're from Hull you're Radford's mate, if not then he doesn't like you & will look for a reason to drop you.

I get the feeling he's pretty close to Crooks & Pitts.

And he clearly doesn't like Yeaman & Tuson as evidenced by when players don't perform are instantly put on the naughty step.

Apparently Horne is a very likeable bloke so he probably get's on with Radford.

Expecting Houghton to give a full 80 against Rovers is a big ask. He'll inevitably tire and most of our close losses this season have been lost in the last quarter. Heremaia must be injured. Who if anyone, is Radford intending to spell Danny with?

Everyone's an armchair coach !!!!

How did Hadley get on at hooker in the fev friendly? Could he spell Houghton for 15-20 mins?

Wouldn't be good enough in SL..Shaul was a hooker he could play there..he's very quick out of dummy half.

I don't but all this, your from Hull you play, why would he drop Shaul early in the season.

Anyway bold move to drop/rest Heremia, if he needed a rest surley it would be against London, I would have also left him in the squad, as Rovers would have had there game plan to play against two hookers, now all the attention, will be on tiring Houghton out.

Massive game this, haven't won two on the trot all season and not won a game away, time to start our season. On paper we look too strong for them, but need to turn up or they will beat us.

Bloody awful

Radford isn't going to declare his hand until 60 minutes before kick off.

Shaul and Talanoa were doubts after the Huddersfield game, so let's wait and see.

Keep Rovers guessing, and hopefully we'll put out a near full strength team.

shaul wasn't dropped against widnes he was ill

Not sure, was subbed the week before, so thought he was dropped, although Crooks didn't live in Hull, he came through the academy and his dad is a big a hull fan as any of us, he been dropped a few times.

Think Radford is picking the team he thinks best to win the game, even though at times he had got it wrong.

IMO it would be a mistake to play houghton for the full 80 and no one but azza will offer enough at dummy half. Can see radford putting horne on the bench and using him to spell houghton and/or one of the halfs. Poor decision to drop heremaia for me

I agree, let's hope we are proved wrong.

No, he just wasn't selected. He spoke about it in a subsequent match programme, saying that Radford had explained the decision to him and that he took it on the chin and worked hard in training.

I think we'll lose the game and a big factor will be radford's team selection. watts and feka should have been in for hadley and bowden IMO and azza on the bench. Only other change I would have made would have been anyone for colborn. I really hope shaul and the bin man are fit or we are fubar'd and rovers will win at a canter