Goes without saying we have to win
We all have injuries
They want revenge
What a cracker in store for RL fans

Be a massive test of our credentials and
One i would love to see us win

I'm going to be on holiday in Portugal again, went the same week last year and guess what we played Wigan at home on the same date last year. Hope its a different result, need to win both these home games, going to be very tough tough.

All depends on injuries and suspensions for me. if we can put out a near full strength side we'll be in with a good chance but if we can't then we'll lose

We've got to win, simple as that, I really do fear we won't make the 4, as you say, injuries and suspensions could have a big affect on the next few weeks.

Wakey are the dark horse for me, genuine chance of getting to the GF.

a win v wigan and a saints win over wakey would guarentee us a top 4 spot as wigan play wakey last round of super 8s

I don't think that's true, because in that scenario Saints could still catch us and one of Wigan or Wakey (not both) could too.

Or Wakey could do you a big favour by beating them both, you can call it a thank you for lending us Hadley

Yeah my bad but it would put is in the strongest position

The strongest position is for both hull and Wakey to win this coming weekend, then Castleford to beat Wigan the following weekend.

This is a big test for sure - we can't fizzle out like last year
Leeds was understandable with crazy scheduling
This wouldn't be understandable
A win would be a massive statement of Intent

"Not understandable" if we don't beat the current champions who've got all their key players back? OK then.

I wouldn't understand how we could lose this one - no
It's a top drawer must win
We win the Big matches
We learnt last years lessons

No im afraid I wouldn't really want to
Understand how we would have lost this one

Who we've beaten 3 times so far this season. We have ambition to be Grand Finalists according to those at our club, so then we should be winning games like this. This is why we have built a squad at max salary cap to compete on all fronts. I expect us to win.

Staggering arrogance IMO. What a sense of entitlement.

In life you seldom get what you deserve....
You normally get what you expect

"Personally not bothered after the cup success " -

All I can say is that it's a good job we have an ambitious Chairman

Arrogance or confidence. They're not the same thing.

Talanoa out for a couple of games.

Ellis charged....



Michaels charged....



Burrow also charged, but didn't head butt connor very hard....

Ellis getting charged is pretty annoying. The only positive I can think of is that he will get a week off and a rest

I didn't think the Michaels incident was that bad. From what I recall, Walker ran into him but I've only seen it once so could be wrong

I noticed Burrow got the same charge as Ellis. For head butting. I thought that was strange.

This is how the rfl described Farrell's tackle on ellis in the 76th minutes of the cc final (no charge)...



Spot the difference - the ellis tackle against leeds is on our tv highlights.

Just proves yet again how flawed the RFL Disciplinary is. Ellis' charge is a joke let alone Grade B, Michaels fair enough though grade B harsh so no doubt he will get a 2 game ban as he has EGP. Rob Burrow clear and blatent headbutt and gets grade B?

Some of the stuff you see week in week out that is far worse and doesn't even get seen by the clueless idiots running the game. Seems now Hull are challenging we are getting pretty rough and unjust punishment via Red Hall, you can bet had Ellis been S O'L he'd have got a caution. Take the McIllorum punch to the head of Ellis in the opening set of the CC Final not even a sniff of disciplinary. Yet Ellis stays on his feet same as the Farrell incident that has been highlighted so what it so much different between the two incidents to get such differing outcomes?

As for Friday if we can put out a fairly strong 17 then I think we should be able to take the win at home and would be disappointed if we didn't.

That bit about you getting rough and unfair punishment because you're challenging is going OTT.

The problem with the disciplinary is that they focus too much on injury. Granted Ward came back on but he was forced from the pitch for a while. Ellis played on at Wembley. If Connor suffer a broken cheekbone for example probably would've been longer. I'm not agreeing with their way btw as I don't think that's the way to do it as the Ellis Wembley one shows players can just get lucky in avoiding injury.

.... seemed to remember Ellis was forced from the pitch against leeds as well, for about 10 minutes, with no replacement.

Ward came back on though. So a yellow card whilst many who viewed it seemed harsh should be enough punishment. What good is it to if burrow gets a game ban when he shouldn't have been on the pitch at the end of our game last Friday?

I agree, I'm just pointing out how I feel they do it. Every club must've had games where an opposition player should've been off but wasn't and then banned the following week/s to no advantage to the team who were on the receiving end.