Hull FC coach Peter Gentle has recalled Aaron Heremaia and Danny Tickle to his squad for the trip to London Broncos on Saturday.

Former New Zealand international hooker Heremaia missed his side’s defeat to league leaders Huddersfield Giants with a rib injury last weekend but returns to Gentle’s 19-man party for the clash at The Stoop along with Tickle, who has now served his one-match suspension for punching.

The duo take the place of props Chris Green and Jay Pitts in the Black and Whites squad for the game, while Jason Crookes and Paul Johnson will also be for selection having missed out at the John Smith’s Stadium.

"Hull FC squad:" Arundel, Bowden, Briscoe, Crookes, Crooks, Galea, Heremaia, Holdsworth, Horne, Houghton, Johnson, Lineham, Lynch, McDonnell, O’Meley, Tickle, Watts, Westerman, Whiting

McDonnell
Lineham
Arundel
Crooks
Briscoe
Holdsworth
Horne
O'Meley
Houghton
Lynch
Galea
Tickle
Westerman
Subs
Heremaia
Johnson
Whiting
Watts
Hard on Bowden but I would leave him and Crookes out.

I'd leave Galea out. Westeman to Left Second Row, Watts to start at 13 and Bowden on the bench

I'd go with that.

Very harsh on Green...sooner have him in than Galea....Green is the future,Galea isnt and i dont buy into this experience for young ones crap....got enough experience without having Galea.

That'll do for me also.

Apparently Holdsworth didn't train today due to sickness.

Happy to agree with this but Ben does seem to be one of the untouchables

Agree 100%, Galea offers nothing, may be how we're utilising him, or down to him, not really sure.

If Holdsworth isn't fit, what will PG do? Whiting or Westerman to 6 perhaps?

Can't go with Heremaia again in the halves. He must have seen by now he's just not suited there, he was abysmal v widnes when asked to be a playmaker. Rabbit in the headlights stuff.

I agree Green's workrate is tremendous, very very unlucky - IMO.

According to PG. 2 key players haven't trained all week.

if its DJ, no wonder our attack is flat.

Rest holdsworth if not 100% like rovers have dobson. He was ineffective against hudds when not fit

Absolutely. If we can't beat London without him, then we should pack up now.

its a strong squad, possibly the strongest of the season, we should beat london with or without holdsworth. the players are capable its down to attitude, but i fear as its an away match it could be a bit of a battle like last seasons game was

Hopefully DJ will be fine for Saturday.

On Green I agree it's a shame he misses out but it's a long season and easter is coming, no point in burning a young lad out. As for Galea he's steadily been getting better and deserves his place in the 17 for me.

Don't see how we can burn a young lad out when he is playing so few minutes. Not doing 80 minutes every week is he.

Plus this is the sort of game he should be playing in. A game against one of the weaker sides in the comp albeit a must win game.

I don't remember Holdsworth being so 'injury prone' at Salford. I know Gentle has said this time it's a bug but he is quickly becoming Darren Anderton.

I agree Mark , Disappointed he's been dropped as before his injury , He was one of our better forwards.

He took a late hit at saints which concussed him and is still causing him problems.

Why? It's this sort of arrogant , unsubstantive attitude that seems to get into the players heads as well that sees us consistently lose games against "lesser" opposition. If we go there without DJ or a fully fit DJ and turn up thinking that we're somehow just entitled to the win , you know what , we won't get it. Our squad quality as proved up to now is no more than average and we need the whole (team) to be greater than the sum of it's parts to win this sort of game , ie , we need to go in with the right attitude , the one we display when up against "better" teams.

Not sure about that. I agree he's been getting better, but it depends how we balance the team. If we're going with a prop at loose man that leaves 3 second row spots. IMO even though he's been getting better he's still 4th behind Westerman, Tickle, and Whiting. Unless one of those plays loose forward I don't think there's a place for him.

So you don't think that we're better than London.

No, I really don't, I think we're about equal, on our day we can play well, but our day doesn't seem to come around very often in recent times.

If DJ is fit and the forwards decide they actually want to play then we'll win, but if our second row are as lazy as they have been in recent games (attacking wise) then we're f'd.

Have a look at the table. There's not a lot in it but if we go there thinking we're a big club and have the wrong attitude - and we've plenty of previous for that - then we'll lose. Dorn , Gower and Randall have plenty of guile and will play if we let them.