What we reckon? Tough assignment as KR have had good consecutive wins. Kris Welham back in tryscoring form. We need all our horses (as nobby would say) healthy.....Fozzy back to kick and Chev should be ok. Hopefully Matty Blythe will recover the Widnes Concrete pitch!!

Need franny to give them a rollicking after the debackle at widnes, no point in feeling sorry for a team with 12 men and letting guad down we have to go for the kill, when we can.

KR are beatable as a couple of teams have proved if we stop Dobson get 2 men into him rough him up abit we can start to turn the screw and go on to win.

John Bateman to come back in for me. He's had 2 games in the academy and for me should play, whether he is on the bench or starting. I also think we will need Foster back and at least one of the three injured players from Friday night to be playing.

Agree Charge, Bateman returning could be the spark we need. Id keep Blythe and one of walker/langley out of the team to recover, bateman and foster back, whitehead to centre and bateman or donno at LF.

Blythe and Langley are definitely out for kr game afaik. Walker should be ok. Foster and Bateman to return.

Bateman will be a huge lift to the squad, he adds a real running threat with the ball down the edges. Gone a little quiet on Gale again, shouldn't he be close to a return given the last update we had?

KR have some good backs and big mobile forwards but close down Dobson and they are rudderless IMO, easier said than done but very beatable.

Travis Burns?

HKR very much like us in terms of strengths and weaknesses. Should be a close game.

I too am a bit worried about Gale and hope he's back soon. Good that Bateman's back though.

Not just me who is half expecting an announcement stating he needs another op and will miss a further 3 months then? Hopefully we will hear some positive news on this soon!

What about him?

We've had Travis Burns back for the last two games. No coincidence that we are more steady in defence and don't have to rely on Dobson which gives him more time to kick us round the park.

He is our stand-off and marquee signing this season.

The Bradford game will be his third outing so I'm guessing we'll start to see him step it up a gear.

Fair enough, i've not seen enough of this Burns to judge but i still believe Dobson is your best player and organiser in chief. Without Dobson KR are average IMO. Should be a tight game as he is fit

In the opening 6 rounds these two teams have scored 355 points for - but conceeeded 280 - so should be an interesting game. The Team which keeps its defensive shape and discipline to win for me, so shame if Langley is out he he does more than his share of tackling. If we play like we did at Huddersfield we should get the points.

Think this game is too close to call,two very evenly matched teams in my opinion

From what we have seen so far this season expect us and hull KR to be fighting for 8th place along with Wakie and Widnes, so very important to take points off these teams

4 pointer even at this stage of the season

Not a game where either side is likely to start as a strong favourite to be honest - unless you count home advantage. I'll be happier making some kind of forecast when I find out who we'll have available, to be honest

I think it will be very even next Sunday. I have watched Burns in the NRL-- he's had his problems but is a class player.He might have burned his bridges in the NRL so he'll be out to impress in the UK. Now he has 2 matches under his belt , he will start taking more of the burden off Dobson.
Additionally ,Paterson on the left has been their stand out player. Their left will be attacking our weaker side.
If I was a betting man I would have a small wager that these 2 will be seen as the best imports of 2013.

should be a close game in theory. If the season so far is anything to go by I predict the ref will make a right rickets of it and penalise one of the teams out of the match.

This looks like a pre-emptive strike on the Whinge Watch stats - we might need a ruling on this from TT

That's got to be a record. Blaming the referee before he's even been appointed.

I think whinging before the whingeable event has even happened warrants a three-game ban from the Whinge poll?

What happened to get your excuses in early and get them in often??

True enough. But in this case, its like telling the boss you fell asleep on the job because your baby was squawking all night, when the little bugger hasn't even been conceived yet...

Yes a blatant play there for early favouritism relic, there's no place for that sort of behaviour in this game. Absolutely outrageous. Bulls start one whinge behind next weekend.