So then, what we expecting?

Big crowds, injuries/suspensions, scores, talking points? Etc

Most of all are you looking forward to it...I know I am, perversely always love games more in which I think it will be tough blood and thunder right down to the wire encounters, looking forward to this more than the Saints game.

Free hit out for us. I'd expect you to win and we've already won the home fixture so no real damage done if we lose. If you lose though you'll go 4 points behind us and probably drop into 4th place

Of all the other Super League clubs Warrington are my favourite team so look forward to all Hull FC v Warrington clashes. Goes back to the fact that one of Hull's legendary players came from your club to take ours to a golden period in the 50's. That was Roy Francis who subsequently became a family friend.

Also I rate Brian Bevan as one of the greatest players I have ever seen having first seen him play against Hull in the late 40's when that team also included Challinor, Francis, Helme and Bath among others.

Have also seen you win the Challenge Cup at Wembley in 1950 and at Odsal in 1954. For me a GF or CCF against you would be magic!

As for Friday I believe you will win and I will be up at 0430hrs to watch the match on TV.

On paper this is obviously the toughest of our last 6 regular fixtures (we've already played Catalans, Wigan and Saints), and we have a pretty mixed record at your ground. As Jake alludes to the permutations are getting interesting now. If we win, we get a 4 point gap to you, then I think you play Catalans next which could go either way. If you win and Catalans beat Saints, we're back to 3rd with a trip to Cas in front of us which again is a tricky one when we've got one eye on the cup quarter final. Having just read that back, and reflected on the likelihood of saying it back in February, it all seems a bit surreal.



The last few weeks we've been able to pull wins off through playing well for 20 minute spells, but this will 100% not be enough against you, so it depends how much we have in the tank - the first half against Widnes suggests our energy levels aren't what they were. Positives for us will be Watts and hopefully Pritchard returning to freshen up the pack. On paper I think we edge it in the forwards and you have the better backs/halves. Clark v Houghton should be a good battle. Radford is talking no injuries, but Talanoa had running repairs on his knee last week and Frank was limping a bit when he was on the pitch at halftime. The main selection questions for us will be who goes up against Lineham (Naughton did a good job on him at our place, but Michaels was excellent against Widnes) and whether we go for Tuimavave or Pryce at 6 - I suspect the latter. In the pack, if everyone's fit I'd see Watts and Pritchard in with Green and Hadley dropping out. What's the team news from a Wire perspective?

So why exactly is this a free hit up? An opportunity to go four points clear of another top 4 team.

To be honest, I think we will lose this one and the Cas game. Cas are playing better than Warrington at the moment and are looking a very exciting team.
Mental toughness will be massive as we hit the next 3 games.

Because we're not expected to win and a loss wouldn't be a disaster. I would have thought it was fairly obvious but obviously not

Team news is Sims will be back and most likely Westwood aswell, as for the rest well 5 of them were carrying knocks in the saints game, Smith said they didn't train all week. So i guess we got see how they come through the week.

Think wayne bennett is going to be they to, for a bit more motivation for the english players on both sides, a few good battles. Taylor/hill watts/hill, houghton/clarke, yeaman/atkins!!!! Ellis/westwood, could he be tempted back! I dont think so. Hopefully should be cracking game , go for a hull win by 12

Westwood won't be fit. Kevin Penny should be fit and will probably come in for Ormsby. Sims will take Bailey's starting place and will drop to the bench with Wilde missing out.

Two very good teams and it could go either way. At some point this season, Hull will put a good 80 minutes together instead of their usual broken spells adding up to 40 minutes. When they do, someone is in for a hammering. Hopefully it's Warrington

I wonder how many minutes Lee Briers will get on the pitch this week?

None its John Clarke now that spends time on the pitch not Briers.

Obviously not. Based on that criteria, 50% of the teams that play this weekend are effectively getting a free hit up. Utter nonsense.

I expect defeat.
We need a Saints cup performance to snatch a high scoring, close game. Anything less and we will lose.
However I dont see it as season defining, we will return and win the rest of our regular season games.

The good thing about this week, in my opinion, is that we are playing another top 4 team. The further away we can pull away from 5th as a group of 4 teams, the better.

We saw at the back end of last year what a team with nothing to play for looks like. Let's make the rest of the top 8 'make up the numbers' and not have a sniff at the 4. It might make it boring to watch, but it'll be the best outcome for our chances of reaching the Grand Final.

Of course, now I've said that, we won't win another game all year

Finishing top at the end of it all just means the tea lady gets a whole season of carrying the chairman's brew on a fancy tray.

There really isn't any more advantage finishing top to finishing 2nd. As a Wire fan 1 or 2 will do me, if we win Friday I think we'll finish on top at the split that's all. I'm kind of hoping all the top 4 clubs do a number on Saints and Cas too, to keep them away and cement the top 4

Utter nonsense my ass. No one on here expects us to win and I doubt anyone in the media expects us to win. We can win if we play to our potential but if we don't win then worst case scenario we're on not top due to points difference. best case scenario we're 4 points clear of wire. All of the pressure is on wire.

I think finishing top would do us more harm for the play offs. I'd rather we finished 2nd personally then we don't have the plate presentation and any euphoria that surrounds it. You only have to look at huddersfield when they won it

Or you could try and fit the Challenge cup and the Grand Final trophy on it




£100.000 prize money is quite attractive,especially if the squad share it out between themselves

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If all fit I'd bring Frank and Watts in for Green and Tomo.

Play Pryce at 6 and Carlos at centre.

Can't decide on Fonua or Micheals on the wing, think based on last week I'd go Micheals.

Age old dilemna, stick with a winning team? Watts deffo, Frank deffo if fit after all it was supposed to be a virus that kept them out. Leon v Carlos? Glad Radders has to make the decision, me, I wouldn't split the new half back pairing, as I said in an earlier post, Carlos hasn't done anything wrong and is growing into the position and partnership with Sneeeeed. The club seem to have gone for a new centre and want Carlos at half back, dropping him would smack of Abdul, would you drop Fonua or Michaels????? We're are in uncharted territory, top of the pile and team spirit unmatched in the competition, I think we'll win Friday.