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Its rough, Its tough. Its Rugby League. Every club expect injuries to key players along the season, its the physical nature of the sport, however Hull just seem to get bogged down with injuries week after week. It begs the question, Are our players trained and conditioned well enough, Do they have good diets, Are they trained to hard. I wish I knew the answer. I do feel that its more than just bad luck we suffer at Hull. The last 2 or 3 season have been injury mine fields.

Sounds like Cordoba will be playing this week. Wonder if Hall will be brought back as we will need a goalkicker unless we give the duties to Thorman?

Wasn't Rich Whiting the kicker at Featherstone ? Don't think Hall is coming back until after the Northern Rail Cup Final. Hope to see Cordoba playing at Castleford, got to go with four props, so Maloney will hopefully play to.

I'm not all that sure our players are as professional as they could be in the way they live their lives, the other week I saw Berrigan and Lee out at a pub sat outside with four other lads who looked like they played for the academy who were all smoking, I did not see Berrigan and Lee smoking but they were quite happy to be in the company of smokers (passive smoking) which to me isn't the best attitude to have when your a professional sportsman.

Captain Fantastic Lee Radford!

Broken wrist.It just gets better.

Dowes is out for 6 weeks, too.

Kicking this week, I would guess that Berrigan would do it, as the last time Tickle and Hall weren't playing the duties fell to Berrigan, iirc.

If not, I would have guessed Thorman or Whiting. I'd prefer Whiting to Thorman.

a difficult run of games coming up, just made even harder.

no tickle, dowes, thacks and possibly r horne for next few matches, season definatly over

Ah that would explain Berrigan's on going knee injury.

Just heard on blunderside

We only have 18 first-team players first for the Cas. game, if Richard Horne is fit.
Cordoba
Yeaman
Raynor
R. Horne
Thorman
Berrigan
Radford
Whiting
Manu
G. Horne
King
Houghton
Burnett
Lee
Maloney
Moa
Broughton
Hodgson

Which means that I would choose:

Whiting
Raynor
Horne
Yeaman
Broughton
Thorman
Berrigan
King
Houghton
Maloney
Manu
Burnett
Lee

Cordoba
Radford
Moa
Hodgson

I was talking about their life styles, hanging around smokers isn't going to contribute to being healthy. I know full well it won't contribute to knee injuries but it will contribute to not being able to give 100% for the full 80 mins.

Absolute rubbish. Sitting outside with smokers will have no effect that way.

Can you prove that, I would say all the evidence points to the opposite, passive smoking has got to be bad for you.

Walking down the road or driving with their softops down won't help either I wouldn't have thought, all those fumes!!

Horney
Raynor
Hall
Yeaman
Broughton
Thorman
Berrigan
King
Lee
Radford
Manu
Burnett
Whiting
Subs
Cordoba
Moa
Houghton
G.Horne or Hodgson

Those things can't be avoided,passive smoking can be.

Apparently Hull are refusing to travel down the M62 due to all those nasties coming from the chimneys at Drax!

Whiting
Raynor
G. Horne
Yeaman
Broughton
Thorman
Berrigan

Cordoba
Lee
King
Manu
Tickle
Radford

Houghton
Moa
Burnett
Maloney

I reckon that will be the team on Sunday.

Long term it probably won't be good for you but it won't have any effect on their on field performance. Remind me again how long Berrigan played for last Saturday.

How the hell did Jason Smith ever get through a game eh?

Just think how good he would of been if he wasn't addicted to nicotine.

I am an ex smoker so I am speaking from experience at how much smoking effects your health.

Passive smoking increases your risk of getting lung cancer and one or two other smoking-related diseases. AFAIK there have been no studies indicating that it has any impact on your general fitness.

It reduces your lung capacity and therefore lowers your ability to take in oxygen which is needed to feed the muscles or something like that so has a detrimental effect on your overall fitness.

Apart from Berrigan and Lee being observed outside a pub amongst a group of smokers you mean?