That Hull side looks pretty good and another reason why I have them top 3 or top 4 at worse.
Will do well for our pack to match them let alone get on top.
I also have worries about Sutcliffe and Newman containing the Hull left side.
A good spirited performance with bodies on the line and that will do for me as we won`t come up against many better teams this year.

Had a wrist operation about 5 weeks ago I think, could have made this game had we not any cover for him. Should be back for HKR next week

Looks a very good side on paper that hull side but we've said that before. We're a couple of quality players short of a good side imo. We're lacking pace out wide and thin on grunt up front

I’d go with:

1. Walker
2. Newman
3. Sutcliffe
4. Hurrell
5. Handley
6. Lui
7. Gale
8. Oledzki
9. Dwyer
10. Prior
11. Martin
12. Ward
13. Smith

14. Myler
15. Cuthbertson
16. Mellor
17. Holroyd

We’ll have to front up without Ava and against a big and athletic Hull team.
A lot will rely on Gale doing everything right to mitigate some of our weaknesses.

Good hull side that. Definitely need to play a possession game and hope Gale and Lui are good with the boot. Keep things tight and hope we have more energy than them in the last quarter.

It's only the first game ,but Im getting a bit nervous about it .

When you see it on paper, looks just like last few seasons. Let’s hope on the pitch is different, doubt it though.

Hull by plenty.

Were light upfront even with Ava and lack pace in the backs.

Key to our season is the health of Gale and Ward. Lose those 2 and we are no hopers. With those 2 in the team we will be better than the last couple of years.

As ive said before weve no pace in the middle of the park so everything will need to be more structured to break a team down. If we are going to play a more structured game we need our 9 delivering the ball to Gale and Lui when and where they want it. Our kicking game should be better this season too.

For all the hype on Hull you never truly know what you get from that club. I expect them to beat us Sunday but who knows?

Should be an interesting game.

The Hull pack will tear our forwards up. A heavy defeat is on the cards.

I fear you're right. Need to get a big prop brought in asap

Somebody on here was tipping us to win the treble last week. Now were set for a mullering at home to Hull.

Our fanbase.........

Fonua and Kelly playing for Hull reserves today.

Hope they dont play when our reserves play them. Our bunch of University lads and Fev rejects will kill them!

Think some people are massively over estimateing Hull, people making out they are major total contenders, rather than perpetual under achicivers. Radford will not see the season out if or when they inevitably hit one of their slumps, think they are 5 placed side at very best, yes they have been on the spend and packed the side with big Pacific Islanders, but have a crap coach and too many tantrum players with egos and attitudes.

They may win tomorrow but if they do it won't be the easy win some of our so called fans are willing for.

Leeds by 6

Hull are the SL version of Leeds in the 80s. Sign lots of players, get hyped up massively pre-season and achieve nadda.

They might win tomorrow, they might not but they are far too unpredictable to be tipping them to beat us so easily at The Emerald. Were more than capable of competing with them.

I think it is your last sentence that has serious questions, rather than the rest, which might prove correct. It’s how good we are which is questionable.

Exactly, I was going to compare them to us in the 80's genuinely newly think our camp are confident and are in a better place than this time last we, we seem pretty determined to have a real dig in his year, think we are 4-5 players and 2-3 years of being real contenders yet, but think we will win more than we lose this year and we won't be bending over as much as last year, think sides are going to have to work much harder than last year to get the points from us, and that should start tomorrow.

We are not where we need to be, but pretty confident we are not where we were, regardless of anything else think we should have more direction and some fight in us this year, and I do not see too much between us and Hull to say they are going to steam roller us with ease as some are suggesting.

Yeah i would agree with that. We arent where we need to be but as ive said previously i do think we can compete at home to Hull with Gale and Ward fit.

I know the point you are making is competing isnt good enough but at this stage that is where, i think, we are at currently.

I cant say Hull are this formidable outfit people are claiming but lets see. Maybe they will be. They have been so unpredictable for years that its hard to call.

Lots of teams look better on paper, Hull and Leeds are 2 of them, but injuries will have the biggest impact on how a team performs, and the teams with the least injuries will probably but the teams at the top.

Hull look a darn site better on paper than we do and it will take a monumental effort from us tommorow as i feel they will be too strong , too quick and too skillfull , yes we will be better than last year but still not a top 4 side . Those positions will be filled by Saints , Hull , Wire and Wigan probably in that order

My guess is that Agar will be gone before Radford. Agar and Webster what winning credentials have they got?

Or is that just what you are hoping for, you are you one of those people who thinks we should of and could of pulled out the next über coach from the NRL from out of Nowhere.
Agar might not be a truly great coach but is a steady Eddie and we need that for the next year or two. Radford has had plenty of chances and plenty of money to throw around for a number of years now and as got nowhere near a grand final winning side, anything less than top 3 and a grand final or challenge cup and he will be gone for next year. Unlike Agar who will not be under the same pressure and will be safe for this year minimum, if and when a better option comes along he may get moved upstairs, but I suspect he will over see succession from within, Rob may have been the natural successor in a year or two, but Has a more important battle to worry about.

Ps there are currently only about 3 coaches in super league that have won trophies and the most successful one is our former coach, so what's your point

Agar won’t be gone no matter what. He will be back in his appointed position, once the other is qualified. This ruse I stated on here last June, when people were speculating on Furners replacement.