No Minichiello or Manu.......

Hull squad:
1. Jamie Shaul
2. Bureta Faraimo
3. Carlos Tuimavave
4. Josh Griffin
5. Fetuli Talanoa
6. Albert Kelly
7. Marc Sneyd
8. Scott Taylor
9. Danny Houghton
13. Josh Bowden
14. Jake Connor
15. Chris Green
17. Danny Washbrook
22. Jez Litten
23. Mickey Paea
24. Jack Logan
26. Jordan Lane
27. Jack Downs
29. Masi Matongo

Back row is an issue right now. Without the 3 starters there is zero penetration in that area. Washbrook is steady away. Lane is promising and has done well but isnt going to make a big impact on games at this stage in his development. Downs falls into the same category as Lane but isnt as good imo. To me its a no brainer to put Griffin there even if its just a stop gap until Mini, Manu or Hadley are back. Otherwise we just dont have anyone who can punch holes in those channels.

Shaul
Faraimo
Connor
Tuimavave
Talanoa
Kelly
Sneyd
Taylor
Houghton
Green
Griffin
Lane
Bowden

Washbrook
Paea
Matongo
Litten

Just wrote down the same side on my pad at work. Only changes I would maybe make, are Logan for Talanoa if he isn't ready, and perhaps Washy at 13 and Bowden to the bench

With so many players out it would be madness to have a player of Connor sat on the bench for at least half the match.

Moving Griffin to the backrow would solve that problem, if it Talanoa is out, put Logan on the wing.

Problem being if the same happens again we have no Gaz Ellis to throw the coaching staff out before he lays the law down to his teammates.

Lets hope the coach agrees with us about pushing Griffin into the second row.ideal game for Radford to try something different.
I agree leaving Connor on the bench seems strange if Radford goes that way again but then again leaving Masi out of the 17 at Saints was also strange given our lightweight bench.
Given the injury crisis at Widnes it should be a comfortable win

Taylor & Houghton seem to take it all pretty seriously.

A decimated Widnes team have 9 players out , two with broke legs , one with a broken arm. , They also have players out with hamstring injury , ligament damage and concussion !!

Christ on a bike !


Taken from Superleague forum :

“ The Vikings are without nine players due to injuries . Denis Betts faces a headache selection as Keanan Brand (broken leg), Wellington Albert (hamstring), Gil Dudson (ankle), Danny Craven (concussion), Krisnan Inu (broken leg), Patrick Ah Van (broken arm), Hep Cahill (ligament), Stefan Marsh and Lloyd White (calf) all sidelined.

there all squad players, we have mini, manu Hadley fash turgut abdull,maybe binman, so you could say we have 7 missing

I'm still counting watts so that's 8

6 of theirs are starters, Marsh, Inu, Ah Van, Dudson, White and Cahill.

Both teams have a few injuries, I would say they have more key players for them missing. Our issue is we have a a lot of forwards missing, leaving us short. Need to throw the ball around as we have plenty of quality in the backs on a fast pitch.

We get up the pitch a lot better when we shift the ball to the backs, look a lot more dangerous. Abdull seems to be vital to this, speed of hands and the defenders know he’s a genuine run threat too. Wonder where he is this week? No news of injury unless I’ve missed it.

He was missing after half time last week iirc? Probably picked up a knock.