No wonder Cas are hot favourites with the bookies, even before our absentee list is confirmed...

Need to stop eden after his 5 tries today making 5 hat tricks in the last six games. I'm pretty sure I'd score 30 tries a year on the wing at cas

Oh no. Not Mrs B's mind games again. Cas dont stand a chance now.

Are Cas favourites?

Ladbrokes have them odds on at 1/2.

Yes.

Lordy.

.... not quite as good as Leeds @ 1/50.

Will all these still be out on Sunday??

Our backs should be at full strength unless injury in training this week. Pack is a little light with recent injuries to Moors, Cook, Springer, Maher and long terms Patrick and Oggy Holmes.

Sneyd will definitely be out. Houghton was illness so should play. I dont honestly know about any of the others, but I would imagine at least a couple will be back.

What's surprising ? I'm certainly not gunna say we will win but we are "run away" leaders so of course the bookies will make us favourites for the game at the weekend. 1/2 is fairly slight by what have been at timea this year, we were 1/10 today and 1/80 against Widnes.

Don't worry. Its just those mind games again. 1/2 means the bookies think that if the fixture was played 3 times Hull would win once and Cas twice. Hardly runaway favourites.

Well, as fans we'd like to think we have some sort of chance. But the independent bookies and media clearly see it otherwise, which it is their job to, I guess. Oh well..

"Mind games"? Let's see how many independent pundits and bookmakers tip us this week.

1/2 is far from conclusive . I reckon we win be roughly 4-6 point favourites, which I think is fair. It's an acknowledgement of what could be a close game that may go either way. Hull will be 6/4 I would guess.

More will fancy Cas than us. But 1/2 is fairly insignificant in RL betting. According to Flashscores Salford were 2/5 against us. Wigan were 1/2 against Leigh and 4/11 against Wakefield the other week. None of those were easy to call and were all very comfortable wins against the odds.

....and here's me thinking it meant put on £2 and win £1.

I'd love it to be a close game. The hard thing for us will be (obviously) dealing with your unparalleled attacking threats and managing our own enthusiasm/emotions. Our squad will be up for this one, I'm pretty confident of that, but worry is that may translate to penalties/errors which you guys can punish ruthlessly. I hope we get Bentham, need a ref that will let it flow.

Your point being?

It's nothing to do with winning 2 and losing 1, it's the bookies way of maximising their profits.

They always give themselves a margin obviously. You will never see one team on 1/2 and the other 2/1 because that would take away their edge. But in real terms thats what the prices signify. I've just looked and we are 17/10. The bigger the price the more the bookie wants you to bet on it. 17/10 tells you they are favouring Cas but arent too sure, because its not a price that is going to tempt too many into a punt.

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If we don't match your enthusiasm then we haven't got a prayer. It was the 1 game I wanted to avoid. Cup holders away from home last 8. It will be close either way. There's no way we are rocking up to the kc and blowing you away and on the flip side I'm hoping we learnt a lot from being 18 0 down after 15 mins at your place.

Think the winner has a great chance of going all the way.

Schofield gone for Cas (and for the treble)

Many many Cas fans are apprehensive about this game and rightly so. We cannot afford to give you a start like last time. We'd be committing suicide.
However you'd think that whoever wins this lifts the cup
Hopefully its a sunny day and a great crowd with the Kcom rocking

All the best next week FC but I hope we pip you in a classic