33 Ryan Bailey; 9 Daryl Clark; 32 Jordan Cox; 11 Ben Currie; 16 Brad Dwyer; 3 Rhys Evans; 8 Chris Hill; 12 Jack Hughes; 29 Benjamin Jullien; 18 George King; 24 Toby King; 26 Declan Patton; 20 Kevin Penny; 6 Stefan Ratchford; 5 Matty Russell; 7 Chris Sandow; 14 Joe Westerman; 13 Ben Westwood; 27 Sam Wilde

Not seen the Hull KR team yet but the odds on KR beating us by more than 13 points are 7-1

Even with Atkins & Gidley missing, there is still no place in the 19 man squad for Tom Lineham.

He is certainly out-of-favour with Tony Smith.

So it looks like we may have Patton in for Gidley and Toby King for Atkins. TS could perhaps surprise us with Jullien replacing Westwood, but perhaps two young changes coming into the team is enough ?

Or he could have Jullien at centre.

We are giving them a 10 start on the handicap.

Yes, could easily do that, but it might send a message to King that he was further down the centre pecking order. TS could also put Currie in at centre and move Jullien into the BR, but I still fancy TS will put King there.

Wazza Guardian is saying Dec Patton to replace Kurt & Toby King for Ryan

I think if I were Patton or King I would be playing this game as if it was a Wembley final. Atkins will only be out for one match and Kurt Gidley's omission has 'rest' written all over it rather than injury. If they impress it will give TS confidence to use them a bit more liberally during the last 7 games. And without the pressure of the big Catalan and Hull packs or the innovative Wign tackling style, HKR seems like a good choice to show what they can do.

In an ideal world every player should be under pressure to perform every game to retain his shirt. With the younger squad members it should be even more so as they have limited opportunities.

With regard to resting players it would be good if we could give big Hilly a week off, I think it would do him a lot of good but just can't imagine our team without him playing.

I agree with the reason of resting him, but with Sims, Dodds, Gidley and Atkins missing already, I don't think we could afford it. Maybe vs Salford?

What a mickey poor team, HKR comfortable winners.

Yep your right can't believe it's not us receiving the start on the handicap

Gidley out with minor hamstring injury.

Yes, I saw that BW. It's just that Gidley is 34 and I think 'slight hamstring' is TS speak for one match rest after a couple of tough games.

He is just joking - and being complementary about the quality of the team we are putting out regardless of injuries.

Did you not notice in the widnes game he pulled up and was limping? Managed to run it off and obviously with that winning kick he looked fine. Apparently he has pulled it again during training so wouldn't be surprised if he misses Salford as well. We need him back for Cas and Hudds tho, especially if Brough is playing, he will make all the difference.

I know, maybe my quote didn't come across as the same,the hint was in the handicap,oh well back to the drawing board.

I think Wigan will be challenged this week, so we have an opportunity to catch them. Sadly, I don't see Hull slipping up tonight.

If we do drop points tomorrow, the tilt got the top is over, and we would be chasing to make a home semi.

I don't quite understand why our tilt for the top of the table would be over? wouldn't we still have 10 games to catch them after Friday?

Yes but would then require us to win them.ten games and hull to lose a few too. We have blew our great start and our inconsistent form.gives us no real indication we could go on.a ten game win streak. Whilst it's mathematically possible it's also highly unlikely we will get top spot

he was studded apparently. Quite nasty front of his shin.

just checked its 8

It's not that big a gap. We win tonight and we are two points off top even if Wigan win tomorrow. If we are level with Wigan and Hull, we'll be top cos our points difference is so much better. Catalans might pip us on points difference if they get a couple of big wins.

It's happened a lot this year it changing after the initial bet.