Long old week coming up of team selection speculation (both sides) including 13 timely boosts for Leeds.

Our record against Leeds is pretty much a shambles, but the emotion of last year's heroics will surely act as motivation to the current group of players.

If this is to be the end of our CC tenure, there can be little doubt that it's been a beacon of delight in the experience of Hull FC fans, the best and most celebrated campaign in a generation and for many the highlight of the FC-supporting "career". The iconic Tackle 52 moment will remain with most until their dying day.

So how will we line up If Kelly is back (and there have been some colourful rumours as to his absence on social media) I'd go:

Shaul
Fonua
Connor
Tuimavave
Talanoa
Kelly
Sneyd
Watts
Houghton
Taylor
Mini
Manu
Ellis

Bowden
Green
Washy
Griffin

Fantastic to once again be in a major semi final.

shaul looked to be struggling with an ankle injury Friday and watts has a sternum injury. mini went off injured too. I'm not convinced kelly will play

Shaul and Kelly out gives us a dilemma at FB - who does Connor cover?

both

Leeds should have a full team out seeing as they were allowed to play a team of youngsters the other night.It seems strange to have that many injuries and even stranger to know they will all be fit for the semi at weekend.

and most of those missing 13 were suffering from some form of concussion injury!



instead of spouting bull, mcdermott should've just been honest and said he is resting his team for the semi final, fans arent daft!

Most of the RL top dogs are,what happened with teams not allowed to field a second string team

Probably won't be 13 but we obviously will have a large portion returning.

Galloway is out for the season and Burrow, Delaney, Sutcliffe and Ferres have been injured and missing for a few weeks now and not sure if we'll see any of them next weekend.

Watkins, Hall, McGuire, Moon, Parcell, Cuthbertson, Ward and Singleton should be back in though.

Golding
Briscoe
Watkins
Keinhorst
Hall
McGuire
Moon
Cuthbertson
Parcell
Singleton
Ablett
Ward
JJB

Garbutt
Mullally
Lilley
Plus another

That would be my side, but think Radford will swap Griffin and Connor

Galloway, Burrow, Delaney, Sutcliffe and Ferres will all be injured and won't play.
Leeds also had Hall and Ward out with concussion they'll return. So that supposedly 13 rested for Saturday suddenly becomes only 6 rested.

Gary Schofield predicting Leeds to win by 8 hope he's got a nice clean napkin to wipe the pie off his face COYH!!

Hope you have with comments like that.
Hull have done exactly what to demonstrate we will beat Leeds?
Getting soundly thrashed at home or imploding in the away fixture.
Also Leeds standing in the league dictates they will be favourites.
Yes we'd all like us to win as Hull fans but it's going to take a special performance to do so based on form and previous encounters.
I'm sure Gary doesn't read this board but hardly worth mocking his prediction is it.
It's his opinion and he's entitled to it.
I prefer the quiet optimism rather than outlandish predictions.
By no means a dig at you but comments like that can come back and bite you on the aR5e.

Kelly will definitely play

Think it will be a very close leeds win , or a big hull win by 20 plus points. Obviously hoping for the latter

I was worrying but that's give me some confidence

Im sure Radford will be using comments like Gary's as motivation, yeah we aint been playing well but this team has it in them raise to another level see the quarter final as an example. Not being outlandish just think the boys have been building for this game.

Shaul Tuli Carlos Griffin Fonua Kelly Sneyd Taylor Mint Watts Mini Sika Ellis -Bowden Green Washy Connor (

This^^^^^^

Me too but think Griffin and Connor to swap.

I would rather Connor coming off the bench if we use him more unlike the saints game.

Griffin finally hitting form so starts for me

Griffin may have been playing better but has no guile to be a quality centre that we need and his tackling,passing/timing is not good enough.
If Kelly is fit then Connor is the best option at right centre.
For me Griffin is ideal coming off the bench as an impact second row.Had his best games coming off the bench.
If we sign another big centre/wing to replace Fonua and the more i see Griffin play he is more suited to a second row forward.

He had plenty of guile in the MPG.



Griffin appeared to me to be suffering with confidence. Maybe it was the new environment, the expectation, the bigger crowds I don't know, but he's beginning to find his feet. His defence has always been his downfall, it's his reading of the game and positing, rather than his physicality, but again, I've seen this improving of late.

Also, we're not a side that throws it wide often. He's barely had a chance in open space, and rarely gets the ball in a position to put his winger away. It's similar for Carlos & Fonua on the other wing. We don't play expansive rugby and I think he's taken a while to adapt to that and realise how he could be more effective in the way that the team plays.

He's not a second rower IMO

We're favourites... https://www.oddschecker.com/rugby-leagu ... eds/winner

We're favourites... https://www.oddschecker.com/rugby-leagu ... eds/winner

Quote ="old frightful"We're favourites... https://www.oddschecker.com/rugby-leagu ... eds/winner'" Slightly surprised by that considering our recent track record against them. Suppose we did sort them out when it came to the crunch on a sunny Welsh day twelve years ago. We will outnumber them, we have the mental toughness and fortitude of last year's experience to help us, and the Keepmoat is our friend. We have a shot.

Quote ="old frightful"We're favourites... https://www.oddschecker.com/rugby-leagu ... eds/winner'" Slightly surprised by that considering our recent track record against them. Suppose we did sort them out when it came to the crunch on a sunny Welsh day twelve years ago. We will outnumber them, we have the mental toughness and fortitude of last year's experience to help us, and the Keepmoat is our friend. We have a shot.