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

Oh I'm fairly sure Hull will win, and would be surprised if they didn't fairly comfortably



But we have to hope. After all I've been to enough derbies expecting Hull to win and we did instead, and vice versa.
More than anything I want it to be a cracking game, that shows why this is the best derby. And Rovers to sneak it of course

Think that one may have gone over your head slightly there old boy



I don`t quite believe the old "Form goes out of the window" with derby matches but hey, its a game of rugby and anything can happen.. Always enjoy the Hull derby and have missed it over the last few years. Favorite memory has to be David Hodgsons match winner down the touchline in 2012? Was brilliant to watch, must of been heart breaking for the FC fans.

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... fc-1393079 Hull favourites for this one . Double Wembley winners against a newly promoted team . Rovers have a lot of injuries to makes matters worse .

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... fc-1393079 Hull favourites for this one . Double Wembley winners against a newly promoted team . Rovers have a lot of injuries to makes matters worse .

That was a great moment.looked dead and buried with not long left. Sharp showed him the line thinking between him and FB they had Disco covered but Russell was well out of position . Sharp took most of the flak for that but for me the FB was most at fault?

Really, someone should have mentioned this, having about 10% of the cap absent must really hurt you.

Don't get like Mrs B Dave according to her you have your reserves playing and we're at full strength

I haven't the energy for her drama's



Neither team have real injury problems as it stands (Could change with the 17 tomorrow) so no injury excuses from either team.

Pressure is rightly on us though.

She's quoting Watts as missing for this one

Talisman Houghton back coupled with the return of Paea
Timely boost for Hull.

just like lunt and Maguire for you then, for what its worth I think ur gunna pip us for this one

Maguire ? ?

Sounds like Lunt and McGuire won’t make the 17.

Hopefully this episode in our ongoing penance for the mistakes made in the middle of the decade won’t be too painful.

At least i’m not nervous! I just hope the lads tackle their hearts out, show pride in the shirt and our fans don’t get on their backs if things go badly.

always a shot to nothing , still in middle 8s if we win, come july we need all troops back ,just a shame for the fans we couldn't be a little stronger

Timely boost my

Two massive blows, where they either going to play, id be suprised if they play on Monday either.

Really disappointed if we lose this, still not confident though.

It would be madness to play either at Wigan. With or without we will lose comfortably. We need to target next Saturday at home to Widnes.

Some joke decisions on trys already in this game

Couldn’t of turned out a worse performance against an average bump it up the middle team. This team really lacks composure without Maguire an Lunt.

FFS we gave you 20 start last time, and you blew it, this time we played you with 12 men same result lol,

Other than Houghton's,all our trys came through the edges. Stop trying to downplay Hull to make yourself feel better about losing against 12 men.
Hull would do right to bump it up the middle against Rovers anyway since your pack is pretty terrible.

Ohhh the bitter fruits of those long-term plans, eh?

We are still a very good team, unfortunately that is still by Championship standards.



Shut up you.

Tbf, we’re no worse off league points wise than I expected this morning, but playing against 12 for so long gave us a shot, and the failure to take it probably reflects how far off the pace we are (not trying to take anything away from Hull). I’m not angry or even especially frustrated - I feel sorry for them as much as anything. Maybe they’d prefer anger to pity? I dunno.

Post-derby probably isn’t a good time for strategising. See how we get on versus Wigan, and then more crucially versus Widnes. After that, two fifths through the first 23 rounds, will be a decent time for the club to take stock. It’ll be tough to strengthen, offering the prospect of the middle 8s again, that’s for sure.