With Rovers stunning home form, can only see a heavy defeat for us, unfortunately.

Reckon we'll line up as yesterday, so missing 5 front line players including half our pack:
Sa
Yeaman
Paea
Ellis
Minichiello

Anyone know what the losing margin needs to be to keep us ahead?

I think we need to avoid defeat by no more than 28 ish.

anything can happen in a derby,our away form is fairly good,beaten hudd,saints and wire away.all far better opposition than the dobbins.can see ellis and mini back too.

Cheers. Tall order then.

Should be going all out to win the next two games and then it gives us a slim chance of challenging for the top 4.

Kelly just about single handily won Rovers the first half, he took a knock and they lose the game, so if we keep him quiet we win the game.

Presuming Ellis and Mini are back and Paea doesn't get off, the backs I would keep the same, the pack would be

Watts
Houghton
Ellis
Mini
Whiting
Westy

Abdul
Green
Bowden
Hadley

There are do or die and are a much better team at home than away.

Is this a wind up? Expecting Paea to have his ban reduced, and also Ellis and Mini back. Can see us winning Friday. Need to be secure in top 8 before Wigan.

Are Ellis and Mini definitely ruled out for this game?

i think another win on the cards at mini kfc. think it will be a tight affair, but reckon a 28-22 fc win
coyh

She always does it when Rovers are involved. I don't know if she thinks she's playing mind games or what? Anyway it's very tedious.

Keep Kelly quiet, win the game, it's about as simple as that.

What is Rovers win ratio at home this year?

Radford suggested they would be back.

won 8/10

We are on -6 and they are on -62 so we need to be beaten by 57 or more for there to be a shift in position. I hope to God that doesn't happen!

rovers are -56 worse than us, if it was rovers palying someone else then that would be right, but as we are playing them a 28 point winning margin will see them above us

-6 +-28 =-34
-62 - 28 = -34

rovers better points for sees them go above us

If we lost by 29 we would be -35

That means KR would have scored 29 , therefore -33

You're relying on us scoring?!

I bumped into Mini on Sunday morning and he said he'd be fit for the Derby

I think Ellis will be too, he seemed to get through the Wakey game ok so hoping leaving him out yesterday was just precautionary

If we lose by more than 29 points they should all pack it in.

KR are not that good?

Close defeat IMO. Hope I'm wrong.

I'll take a draw

He's not relying on us scoring at all. If we lose 28-0, Rovers will have +28 better a points difference and us a -28 worse points difference, so the 56 points gap is completely closed.

Although his number sentences are wrong!
-6 +-28 =/= -34, it equals 22 (and -62 -28 = -90).
Got the adding/subtracting the wrong way round!

Their pack is poor. Ours will kill it. Obliterate Kelly and they're headless chickens.

haha, yeah i did think that when typing it

Maths isn't my strongest point, you might have noticed!



Either way, we are 2 very similar teams with weaknesses. As others have said, shut Kelly down and they struggle.

Even if we beat you, it won't be by 29 points so you should remain above us. We would then need to beat Saints away and rely on you losing your last game. Saints will want the two points as the top 8 carry the points forward to the super 8's.

I see us finishing 9th, one place behind you.

Agreed.