Hull FC head coach Lee Radford could hand Super League debuts to Masimbaashe Matongo and Ross Osborne against Wigan Warriors on Friday night.

The duo have been included in Radford’s squad, which includes only 18 players, alongside academy players Jansin Turgut, Jack Downs, Brad Fash, Jack Logan and Jordan Abdull as the injury-hit Black and Whites travel to the DW Stadium.

Radford is missing twelve first-team players for the Super8s fixture, with Joe Westerman, Steve Michaels and Josh Bowden all picking up season-ending injuries in Sunday’s defeat to Warrington Wolves.

They join captain Gareth Ellis, Richard Whiting, Leon Pryce, Fetuli Talanoa, Setaimata Sa, Kirk Yeaman, Chris Green, Jordan Thompson and Callum Lancaster on the side-lines.

The depleted squad to make the trip to Lancashire is one of the youngest ever named by Hull FC in the Super League era with an average age of 21.

HULL FC: Abdull, Downs, Fash, Hadley, Houghton, Lineham, Logan, Matongo, Minichiello, Naughton, Osborne, Paea, Palea’aesina, Rankin, Shaul, Sneyd, Turgut, Watts

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Great recognition for Matongo & Osbourne, especially for Masi who's only been playing RL for a few years or so. Plays big minutes too.

They won't let anyone down.

I'm happy with that. They get experience and the result will only matter to the teams confidence, not for progression.

Good luck to the new guys. Matongo is a strong, hard runner of the ball. You won't get many offloads, but oh boy, he can run it hard.

I also like Osbourn, big strong lad, but needs to work on his fitness.

Shaul
Lineham
Logan
Turgut
Naughton
Rankin
Sneyd
Watts
Houghton
Paea
Hadley
Mini
Abdul

Feka
Mantonga
Downs
Fash

Looking for a moral victory here and if we manage to hold them with 30 points I will be relatively pleased

The blooding of our youngsters is becoming the silver lining to a drab season.

Should Matongo & Osborne play, does that make 5 academy debuts this year (along with Fash, Downs & Turgut?)

Lancaster, Logan, HTW & Abdull last year too.

this season is pretty much over for us so this is almost good news regarding the fact that more academy players are gonna get much needed game time. Gonna be tough but our fans need to recognise the problem is out of any ones hands and back the lads as well as I know us fans can

Is BTW injured or just out of the frame?

He went to Oxford RL for a while, is he still there?

seen Mantonga play a couple of times for the u21s, what i like about him is that he seems to make very few errors and makes metres

What kind of props are Matonga and Osborne? Impact, mobile, offloaders?

Masi is a strong, hard runner, usually takes 3 or 4 to stop and doesn't get put backwards much, has a little turn of pace too.

Ross is a tall lad, similar to the Watts type, has an offload too and knows his way to the try line

So first teamers of the future then

Didn't see/hear it, but apparently Clarkey said the Sky commentary team would have a better chance against Wigan than the side we're able to field.



Oops:

Not the strongest but not as bad as first thought

The Hull FC line up for tonight's game: Shaul Lineham Rankin Logan Naughton Abdull Sneyd Paea Houghton Watts Minichiello Downs Hadley

Palea'aesina Fash Turgut Matongo

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Wigan line up: Hampshire Charney Gelling Gildart Burgess Williams Smith Crosby McIlorum Flower Tomkins Bateman tautai

Powell Clubb Mossop C.Farrell

Ross Osbourne is 18th man.

Looking forward to see Masi's debut when he comes off the bench

Yeah, I'm looking forward to that as well. He plays with so much commitment it'll be good too him have a crack.

The bookies are giving us 32 and if we can beat that and get points on the board well have done alright.

Lineham in defensive nightmare.. what was he doing

Terrible defence from Lineham. That try solely down to his awful decision making.

Nope, won't miss watching his defence next season, apart from when we are playing against him, spoilt a decent start to the game

Just not clinical enough, such a shame, because we do some good work! Not one Wigan player got back the 10 when we he passed that ball into touch

That's a deliberate gouge for mine. Fingers are hooked into the eye. Disgraceful.

Why doesn't Eddie Hemings just suck Wigan off

How's that not a penalty!

Ducking hate that ducker Charles

Don't understand how you can injure somebody in the eye and not be at very least a penalty for a high shot.