It's them from the other side, let the mind games begin.... Dobson an injury "doubt" yet?

Nope, but Blake Green is.
Sandercock said on the radio yesterday he picked up a little knock (so did somebody else but I can't remember who). Not sure if it will keep him out at weekend or not yet until they look further into it.

Yawn. He's fine, just standard derby week bollox. In fact if Webster's fit, HKA will field all 11 of their overseas players. Well, they have only been in SL for 6 seasons.

Its a shame O'meley, Heremaia and Martin are injured and McKinnon went home we could have had over 50% of the players from overseas.

Quite. Rovers have set a high bar in this respect but we're nearly there.

Full back for the derby? Could be some testing kicks.

It should'nt be a problem, providing we attack like we did against Leeds. They have raised there game yesterday against a very very poor Castleford team. No doubt they will be fired up for the game after the last derby, but Hull can and will win this game comfortably. Blake Green is the difference for them, and if we can stop him, we can stop Rovers.

Bring it on!

Come on you Hullllaagghghhhhhhhhh

Rovers were nothing special yesterday. Cas were shocking in defence and missing Orr, Chase & McGoldrick. Clark tried his best but he's only a kid and couldn't offer any leadership for the team. Green will play, but he went into yesterday's game with a strapping on his hamstring and was withdrawn half way through the 2nd half as a precaution. I hope to compete better than Good Friday, but ultimately if you play like you did against Leeds, we will finally lose to you at MM.

I actually believe we will win this one

It will be close on Saturday. Even with the player we have missing, we still have the better side on paper. Just. Yesterday's performance has probably done us a favour. I believe Gentle will be the difference again. Just like Morgan used to be on Derby day

Pretty much agree with all that, our game yesterday will be better preperation than the Rovers walkover.

50/50 IMO, not too much between the teams, if we get our tatics right like the last game then we should win.

Manu out could be a big blow though, usually plays well against Rovers.

What's up with Manu?

Not sure, went off during the last 15 minutes of yesterdays game, usually plays 80 and with such a tight game I would suprised if it was tactical.

I tend to agree with FC Monk , Gentle will identify the area's we need to improve on , and there's plenty by the sounds of yesterday. I expect a tough weeks training ahead.

Providing Manu and everyone else is fit from yesterday my team would be the same as yesterday with Horne and Whiting swapping places.

maybe we should boo Turner and Manu like they did with McDonell all day yesterday

I would prefer going into a derby off a display like we put in yesterday, than in Rovers position of coming out of a 70 point drubbing against an awful side

I was thinking that myself.[i What's the point in keeping scoring all these tries? We should scrape home to give us a sense of perspective[/i.



Cas were proper gash, we owed it to them to thrash such a shoddy outfit. Possibly even worse than Wakey 2011 version.

As far as I'm aware you don't get any more league points for scoring 70 point than you do for scoring 14.

Correct. However, as we had 18 points inside 12 mins, it was wise to carry on to keep the speccies happy. If you miss out on 4th on points difference, I will dig this post out.

Wont matter, KR wont make the 8 anyway, so their season will be over in September.

We haven't set a target of 4th, so feel free. I'll have great pleasure in responding, especially if you're not in the top 8.

Seeing as you are blessed with the power of precognition, perhaps you would like to pm me next weeks euro lottery winning numbers.

Rovers will make the 8, Bradford will miss out.

enough years watching us under Fubar to know a useless coach when I see one, and limpdick is worse than Agar!

No target set, but your coach clearly has his sights set there now (and rightly so given your current position):