Can't believe there are rovers fans who are not massively confident for this one. Hull have lost their full back, their scrum half, their stand off, their best centre and their England back rower. Add into the mix we'll have either a hooker or back rower at scrum half, no kicking game and no one to organise then I can't see how we can win this one at all.

If rovers had eden, welham, paterson, burns and dobson out I'd be expecting a cicket score

Can't believe mrs b is so negative about the players that are injured PG as stated in the HDM the players are in good shape and have had a few days of (that will have been in the pub then) I think FC will win today actually and paper over the cracks till they meet the next top four side, I mean really FC should be beating a lowly bottom 4 side injuries or not u have enuf depth in the squad to cover for injuries PG words not mine

Using the word "stated" doesn't give Gentle's blagging any more gravitas, cockle. He can't say publicly we've got most of our best, and only creative, players out so we're screwed, can he? You're not a bottom 4 side, you're above us, with selection headaches. Sensible fans understand the magnitude of our disadvantage (before we even start on Ganson), as will be evidenced later. Enjoy the sizeable victory today, ginge. With a bit of luck we may have some playmaking ability back for the next two to perhaps provide some sort of contest rather than the steamrollerng we'll be on the end of today.

Just been told that Dobson is out , so no victory for us today.

Blimey, a new take on the timely boost model. Announce injury on day of game to be boosted an hour before kick-off when he's announced in the squad. You're terrible at this.

Also , Burns can barely walk and Eden has lost his contact lenses.

I guess they've been lost for a while!

I'll give you one thing, you're better than the per match entertainment at the KC

You know , same as i do cockle, that Hull will be up for this game like no other.
PG knows victory over us = safe job til season end.

the only time ive been confident of winning a derby jake was last season at the KC and look what happened there

Even with our thinner squad and more modest aspirations for this season, if we were at home and had had an extra day's recovery, I'd like to think we could compete, if perhaps not expect to win.
Hodgson, Brown, Salter, Gleeson, Caro, Hall, Withers, ET, Hodgson, O'Hara, Mika, Lovegrove, Griffin.
Paea, Cox, Horne, Carlile.
Not frightening perhaps, but not hopeless either.
It is about who plays more than who doesn't. The team you seem likely to put out today wouldn't get you to Old Trafford, but it is capable of beating an erratic opponent who are aiming for mid-table, over 80 minutes. Narrow favourites to do so, last time I checked.

Said on the FC board think you guys will win by a small margin. Can't see FC having the strike players to break the line too often. You would have to throw in a Salford style performance to lose this one.
That is unless you do the ultimate Dobson match day story. Announce he is injured and then don't play him. (Please?)

Im exactly the same. Last year we couldnt compete at all and they had a long list of players out

Odds on favourites last time i looked...
Hull FC 4/7 Draw 18/1 Hull KR 11/8

Hull -4 start for 10/11 odds.

Think i'll have a beer token on Eden to score 1st at 14/1.



Money to waste me...