Bit of a topic for the geeks this one (wheres Big Dave T when you need him

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Now considering the Hudds pack is regarded as a strong one and considering they were fairly comfortable against Bradford I found the below stats very interesting....

Meters made

Hull - 1379
Bradford - 1336
Huddersfield - 1001

Just for some context the number of carries are

Bradford - 199 (6.7 meters per carry)
Hull - 187 (7.4 meters per carry)
Huddersfield - 165 (6 meters per carry)

Guess that really shows that Hudds defense, especially goal line defence might be tough to crack and that when they do get near your line they tend to put points on the board. If our pack plays as well as it did against Saints and we can restrict their field position I think we have a strong chance of winning the game.

Hudds pack is overated

take brett hodgson out of the game and we will be ok

Brown looked quite handy as well. They're a pretty tight unit IMO and were good last week.

I don't think they were that good, Bradford looked poor to me but still scored easily at times.

I thought Bradford's highly rated and highly paid half backs created very little. They still scored 3 tries but missed every conversion. Last season I thought Hudds were awesome in defence at KC. If we play like we did last saturday I cannot see many teams competing with us but friday is a big test

Brown for me is Mr consistant; regularly coming up with quality plays,tackles etc, he's a perfect foil for Robinson, alongside Hodgson they have some decent playmakers. As for their pack, it will give us a good benchmark as to just how good ours is.

Agree this is going to be one tough game but you got to fancy Hull after last weekend.

They did play a quater of the game with 12 men, there displine was poor last week, if it is the same this week we have to make them pay, we also need to improve ours.

They have three main players to watch (all in pivotal positions) Hodgson, Brown and Lunt. I think brown must be one of the most improved Sl players in the last year.

Going to be a hard game tonight, very tight and could go either way.

On paper I think we have a better pack and much better halfbacks, they edge the backs IMO, mainly due to exeperience. Pack must set the platform like last week for the halfbacks and backs.

Quietly confident of the 2 points this week, saying that i didnt fancy us at all last week.

Thought our discipline was ok last week. 10 penalties (Including Tanseys non penalty sin bin) factor in that refs do give the benefit of the doubt to a team who is behind on the majority of occasions (be it subconciously or not) then our penalty count wasn't too bad.

Wasn't that impressed with Huddersfield last week, like someone said earlier, stop B. Hodgson then it will go a long way to stopping Huddersfield. Hopefully our pack will over power theres, especially the front row.

If i recall meters made wasnt an issue for us last year, it was strike rate in the oppo 20. Was pleasing at Saints that it was pretty good when needed but was more impressed that we scored a couple of long range efforts too which had been missing.

Good stats though, keep them coming, i like a fully informed view.

Have to keep an eye on Shaun Lunt, very good player imo.
Will be in the GB set up sooner than people might think.