There’s very little evidence on which to guess what the gap will be. I think I saw something saying that this will be Hull’s first game against a community team in 27 years. If you’d have put out your first team, it’d have been one-way traffic, check the all-time records book. It still might be. At first, when I saw the squad, I thought it might be interesting to see how so many of these kids go in one team. But you’d probably learn more from any given Reserves game - it just feels different because this is officially a first-team match. Stab in the dark, I’ll say 20 by half-time, 60 by the end.

[quote="Yippee try yay":2lhdhhft]Don't care how many we score today as long as we get some more miles in the legs and most importantly no injuries.[/quote:2lhdhhft] Correct. I totally get why they would set the bar as high as possible so they can later claim we underperformed but a good run out and no injuries matters more than the margin of victory. Points difference doesn't matter in the Cup.

[quote="ComeOnYouUll":3rr0fwxg]Correct. I totally get why they would set the bar as high as possible so they can later claim we underperformed but a good run out and no injuries matters more than the margin of victory. Points difference doesn't matter in the Cup.[/quote:3rr0fwxg] That's exactly what they're doing, if we only win by 30-40 they can come on here and say well we beat proper York by more than you did amateur York blah blah blah it's so predictable.

[quote="Yippee try yay":2mdi0j7e]That's exactly what they're doing, if we only win by 30-40 they can come on here and say well we beat proper York by more than you did amateur York blah blah blah it's so predictable.[/quote:2mdi0j7e] To a degree, yes, of course. It depends, as well, on whether you go with the strongest 17 from the 21. Rotating a middle of Ashworth, Aydin, Asiata, Fash and Salabio against amateurs would be absolutely crushing. It makes me think, on reflection, that 60 might be pessimistic from a Hull FC perspective. 30-40 is just setting expectations in the other direction. Unless you include all the kids with the higher-30s squad numbers named in the 21 and get a man sent off early, there’s about as much chance of it being only a 30-point margin as there is of me beating stockfish at chess.

[quote="Mild Rover":10l47rxm]To a degree, yes, of course. It depends, as well, on whether you go with the strongest 17 from the 21. Rotating a middle of Ashworth, Aydin, Asiata, Fash and Salabio against amateurs would be absolutely crushing. It makes me think, on reflection, that 60 might be pessimistic from a Hull FC perspective. 30-40 is just setting expectations in the other direction. Unless you include all the kids with the higher-30s squad numbers named in the 21 and get a man sent off early, there’s about as much chance of it being only a 30-point margin as there is of me beating stockfish at chess.[/quote:10l47rxm] I imagine most of the 1st teamers named in the squad will play, Asiata is starting and captaining the team but I can see him and Cust being withdrawn by half time. But as I said earlier I couldn't care less if we win by 10 pts or 100 as long as no one picks up any injuries especially with the extra travel time to get to Catalans.

[quote="Mild Rover":3la5qdhi]To a degree, yes, of course. It depends, as well, on whether you go with the strongest 17 from the 21. Rotating a middle of Ashworth, Aydin, Asiata, Fash and Salabio against amateurs would be absolutely crushing. It makes me think, on reflection, that 60 might be pessimistic from a Hull FC perspective. 30-40 is just setting expectations in the other direction. Unless you include all the kids with the higher-30s squad numbers named in the 21 and get a man sent off early, there’s about as much chance of it being only a 30-point margin as there is of me beating stockfish at chess.[/quote:3la5qdhi] I do agree with most of that. Hull are in a bit of a no win situation. Win by 30 and we get laughed at. Win by 100 and nobody cares because it's just an amateur team. No injuries is really what I'm bothered about today. As for a prediction, I'm going something like 90-6. But it depends how hard we go at it and how long our first choice forwards are on the pitch.

[quote="Yippee try yay":3huwr6c0]I imagine most of the 1st teamers named in the squad will play, Asiata is starting and captaining the team but I can see him and Cust being withdrawn by half time. But as I said earlier I couldn't care less if we win by 10 pts or 100 as long as no one picks up any injuries especially with the extra travel time to get to Catalans.[/quote:3huwr6c0] I agree it isn’t very meaningful. It’s just a curiosity. If it is 100+, well it is pros vs amateurs, maybe let’s not do this again next year, but check to see if there are any records that need updating. If everything that could go wrong (sickness bug, very rusty, atrocious weather, bomb numerous chances, man sent off) goes wrong then at least you have got lots of bad luck out the way in a game you couldn’t lose. Tomlinson could probably spin a triumph in adversity narrative out of it. That’s the point really - we all get to build our own stories out the same set of events. This is just our rough notepad for establishing our outlines.

[quote="Mild Rover":17ke1c8a]I agree it isn’t very meaningful. It’s just a curiosity. If it is 100+, well it is pros vs amateurs, maybe let’s not do this again next year, but check to see if there are any records that need updating. If everything that could go wrong (sickness bug, very rusty, atrocious weather, bomb numerous chances, man sent off) goes wrong then at least you have got lots of bad luck out the way in a game you couldn’t lose. Tomlinson could probably spin a triumph in adversity narrative out of it. That’s the point really - we all get to build our own stories out the same set of events. This is just our rough notepad for establishing our outlines.[/quote:17ke1c8a] As someone said above Hull are in a no win situation today (not literally but a loss would probably be the biggest upset in the history of modern RL). Hopefully for us nothing goes wrong and we can get through with no dramas but if there were you lot would have a good laugh, as would we if the roles were reversed. I'll just take a low drama routine win and get them prepared for the trip to France (although nothing is ever drama free with Hull fc)

Strong ish side today, good chance to blow away some cobwebs. Moy Ward Barron Westerman Martin Kemp Cust Aydin Balmforth Ashworth Fash Holmes Asiata Gardinier Hutchinson Kirby Salaibo

[quote="Yippee try yay":2jdfdfpd]Strong ish side today, good chance to blow away some cobwebs. Moy Ward Barron Westerman Martin Kemp Cust Aydin Balmforth Ashworth Fash Holmes Asiata Gardinier Hutchinson Kirby Salaibo[/quote:2jdfdfpd] Hopefully blow them away first half and get to make some changes for 2nd 40

It’s on radio York for anyone’s whose not at the match

[quote="The Dentist Wilf":3jz7j4mn]It’s on radio York for anyone’s whose not at the match[/quote:3jz7j4mn] On Radio Humberside (DAB)

[quote="B0NES":2yhiuatm]When the cricket scores are coming in over the weekend , I can see all eyes will be turning towards IMG and Tony Sutton again .[/quote:2yhiuatm] But on the flip slide York got a record attendance due to Rovers visiting and it seems Sheffield gave Wigan a game in the 1st half and Halifax have just kept Catalan to 14 points. I like the idea of SL teams being forced to play at lower league teams but they need to somehow find a format where the 12 'best' get drawn against the 12 SL sides. I'm never good enough at maths to work it all out and there's quirks like Toulouse don't enter to consider.

How have we let York acorn score against us??

6-6 after 20mins

Comedy of errors

Sounds like a load of bombed chances but difficult to gauge listening in from the sofa?

It was always going to be a slow start. A reasonable first half. You'd expect a more dominant second half from us as York Acorn tire.

Crazy amount of mistakes and penalties can't think of a more stop start game I've seen. Cartwright won't be in the slightest bit happy, must have bombed half a dozen tries through stupid mistakes.

Heavy pitch to play on, they scored o the back of two penalties and not been able to handle two kicks. Bombed about 3 trys with poor passes or knock ons. Just hoping to get through this without injuries.