That is the truth of the situation.Despite the odd nutter still clinging to Smailes fake news.There is always the Derby factor and the favourite can get turned over but Hull should win at a canter

I expect they'll try to come out of the blocks fast, but if they make errors, we exploit them, the crowd goes quiet and they get nervous...

I struggle to see it, but stranger things have happened.

On a side note, it is nice to see Joe Wardill back in contention for a place after his injury problems!

firstly we are fav, but like you we have injuries, connor Bowden, Hadley westerman, green, Kelly, thats a good chunk, put in shaul, mini, paea,tuime griffin, who are playing busted,, add in sneyd who imo wont play and we are struggling, playing against a young fit rovers team raring to go and we have a perfect storm brewing,

surely Radford wont play anybody who is busted as you say ,not in this game or any of the remaining 7 afterwards whats the point can only be he dosent want to pull pints just yet

in fairness players from other teams will be playing who are not fully fit, trouble is we have a few, but its a derby and people want to win whatever is said, we still have a squeak and thats all it is and for that we need warrington or cas to fall off the cliff which I don't think will happen, lose fri and we could be 8th which yes radders and hull fc will not want to be in, as for radders well hes won us 2 cc finals 2 top 3 finish and we are 5th after all thats happened this year, think hes doing a grand job,

I know you are chief cheerleader for Mrs b but you surely can't believe what you have just wrote? The only way KR win looking at both squads is if Radford has lost the dressing room and the players want rid, Not unlike what he led to oust Gentle

chief cheerleader, mmmmmmmm like that, do I get a badge

Since I was a boy in the sixties, watching Hull Derbies one thing has always been predictable, the unpredictability of them, regardless of which team has who or what, tha never can tell.

Fair points but can't recall a set of circumstances like this?The 2 points only being relevant to one side,strange bans to key players retrospectively,only 2 of the 1-7 named? A raft of 1st teamers back for FC on the back of a huge 72 point gubbing and the coach singling this game out as a must win.Crikey x10

Lump on us then

Won't be staking much brass on this game. I do however like our odds for 1st try. Will be investing a crisp tenner on Blair @ 20s and maybe a little saver on Oakes @ 18s with it being a tv game it's double and treble if you get 1st try scorer at Fred's.

Even 2 weeks ago I would have strongly fancied us in this game. We seemed to have most of our players back and Hull were picking up the odd injury.

Now Rovers have 5 players banned from the game and a further 9 unavailable through injury. Hull looking at their 19 have what 4 or 5 missing?

Just hoping we don't pick up further injuries and compete as best we can.

HKR on twitter confirming two new players coming into the squad for tomorrow. Craig Hall and who else? Craigy Craigy Hall, Craigy Craigy Hall!