Well apart from the last 4 and another 1 earlier in the season but yeah Dave your right

he certainly did. 2nd half though he was ineffective...did well to get through it though tbh apparently

How hypocritical. It's the likes of you that own the patronising tag on this board.

As I said your good wins like against Wigan, Saints and Hudds.

If Mickey gets his ban quashed then I've never been more confident of a derby win.



Which is very worrying.

My thoughts exactly, pre derby mind games, nothing more.

Agree with those comments. Currently my family in Hull is split 75/25 between the 2 clubs with FC having the majority support among the dozen or so that follow the game.

...what he said

Any recommendations of a good place to watch it around Newland ave?

Out with work at 4 and plan to sneak off to meet up with a couple of mates to watch the game.

Is Gardeners our best option?

Rovers in the middle 8s then relegation followed by oblivion equals the perfect scenario.

Be good if every other team went out of business then we could be Champions every year.

Just Rovers would do for me.

We'll S**t em

Tek em t cleaners

Give em a good hiding

Shoot the Bas*ards

not newland ave, but not far from, avenues on chants ave. always a good atmosphere in there. where I go for my sky games

Chester said on the radio after their game that G.Horne will be fine. Think they really miss him.

Not a chance Paea's ban will be diminished - the rugby league want their 'every minute matters' mantra
(try saying that with yer teeth out) playing out to the full, they will want a hkr victory and the super/middle 8s to go the last match!

Hope we dont risk Mini if he's not right - just not worth it.

Queens on corner of Newland/Prinny Ave.

Decent Ale too and a beer garden,

Some of you need to have a good look at yourselves with some of the comment's.
It would be nice to have both teams challenging.

Stop being a pussy.

It's like fooking groundhog day. I reckon though they will sneak it, in a close encounter. I honestly believe they are only decent at home so will lose vs Wire ( I hope). Bit Salford esque in the mercenary stakes, but with noisy vocal home support which gets them over the line.

if we get ellis and mini back we win, if not we still win, Simples

Rovers are a one man team - and hes injured





(thats laughing at the lie thats he injured btw, not that hes actually injured)

To be fair though if i was Rovers id be putting all my eggs in one basket with the CC and keeping Kelly away from a bruising derby - They wont go down in the middle eights but a CC cup final appearance would be fantastic for the club

The game will be won and lost in the forwards on Friday.

Hull FC pack without big micky is still much stronger than rovers. If Albert Kelly is out then all FC have to do is bombard them down the middle and attack that line with speed at their end. With a weak pack and no half backs I really cannot see KR doing much. No forwards to build the platform for their backs and they might not have a half back paring for the game lol.

Hope i'm right..

Need to run at Kelly, he is injured and misse a lot of tackles, couple of hits from Ellis to put him off his game.

If he plays 50/50 game, if he doesn't we will be clear favourites.

I agree with other posters if he isn't fit I wouldn't risk him, big game coming up and they will need him for the middle 8's if they end up there.

Rovers have an 80% home win ratio and are 4/6 with the bookies, right? We are complete underdogs in this one.

kelly will play even if he's on one leg. What choice does chester have? He can't surrender a top 8 place to the arch rivals (albeit only once everyone reaches 20) so has to go for it. We really need to improve our kick chase which has been really poor at times recently. rovers back 3 give them a great platform when allowed to and they play with good intensity which we need to match. We need to hit kelly hard when we have the ball, both to take energy out of him and because he misses plenty of tackles. Winnable game but we need to be at our best and I still think rovers will probably take the points but we'll beat wigan next week anyway