Despite 2 years passing, scars exist from the last debacle. Last night was a body blow with a raft of injuries, whilst Radford confirmed on Humberside that the remaining injuries for them are all cleared and good to go. They will be at full strength and we have the following out:

Addy
Lawler
Lunt
Heffernan
McGuire
Scruton
Kavanagh

We will do well to keep it to sub 20 point defeat I expect. Last night showed the gap between ourselves and the top sides, which Hull obviously are. Damage limitation exercise.

I'm more worried about what Wigan will do to us I still have nightmares about our last Easter Monday fixture and that was at home

I don’t know, losing 30-16 with a load of kids (including a 16 yr old Will Oakes on debut) was better than I expected. ( and it was away!)

That was pretty routine sort of game for us in 2016. Good psychological preparation for what was to follow, as well.

I just hope we can take something positive out of the Easter weekend, result, performance, whatever, and then have a good crack at Widnes. I’d absolutely love us to turn over Hull or Wigan, or just match them attitudinally (which I know isn’t a nice thing to admit in the case of Wigan), but I can’t see it.

Weather may play a part?The threat of snow now looks more like rain but that can lead to a tight game? Factor in ref and probable bit of biff early doors and you just don't know? My bet will be Minns 1st try and a red card in the game. Result wise I ain't going to predict as anything could happen either way

We’ll miss McGuire’s quality, and it’s a bit frustrating that we haven’t been able to get our two most pivotal pivots on the field together often. I guess you’ve felt similarly when missing Houghton and Kelly recently. But depth isn’t the issue - we just lack that bit of extra power and aggression, and that consistently costs us in contact. In fairness, we seem to have good energy, tenacity and a doughty attitude - but that tends to wane as the game goes on, especially against the more physically dominant teams.

Is McGuire deffo not playing or is there a chance he could still play... if he is out I hope sheens puts Quinlan in the half’s and put dagger or moss at full back... and salter in the to replace heff...

Radford said he’s definitely expecting Houghton and Paea back this week and he didn’t sound like he’s given up on Manu or Hadley, so full squad to chose from. Luxury.

If you know any Rovers fans who think we have a strong squad then you only know daft ones. Don’t confuse size with quality!

And finally, if 6-30 counts as ‘running close’ then you might as well say we ran Leeds close at Wembley!

We are not actually at full strength, Houghton is likely back but Peea is still a doubt. Manu and Hadley will be out, and Hadley has been one of our best players this year.

That said on paper, we should win imo. But it's an easter derby, so I might as well take said piece of paper and take a match to it.

I just hope it's not like the good friday game of 2016, when we should have won but run out of steam and lost.

Expecting Hull to win, but anything can happen. Just hope that we give a good account of ourselves.
Be intresting to see who he plays at Wigan, given what happened last year.

I am 100% certain Hull will win this one