I clicked the link in the email, and it went to club news but no team news, so I found the squad elsewhere.

Your post gave me a clue - my emailer had truncated the rhs of the screen , so no player names at all until I scrolled to the right.

I'd probably go with

Jamie Shaul
Ratu Naulago
Carlos Tuimavave
Josh Griffin
Adam Swift/Mahe Fonua
Jake Connor
Albert Kelly
Gareth Ellis
Jordan Johnstone
Ligi Sao
Jordan Lane
Manu Ma’u
Joe Cator

Brad Fash
Andre Savelio
Jack Brown/Danny Houghton
Chris Satae

With one of Brown, Houghton or Savelio to miss out, if Savelio's nose is ok then he stays leaving the choice between Brown & Houghton for the remaining spot for me. Ca't decide on Swift or Fonua as both made good contributions against Wakey. Faraimo for me misses out to Ratu as don't think he did enough to warrant staying in.

To be honest looking at the squad we have available it is certainly one that is capable of winning despite the likes of Sneyd, Jones, Taylor & Bowden missing.

Not without Bowden from injury he has been left out by the coach

Rightly so in my opinion. Hes been poor for a long time now. One id certainly be looking to offload

Its a tricky one for Last
The backs probably pick themselves but Swift for me on the wing with Fonua on the bench.
Johnstone for me over Houghton.
If Fonua drops to the bench then no place for Houghton
Lets see what he is made off with Houghton and Fonua or does he take the easy route and drop Swift and Fash or Brown

Doubts about a few of the backs so will prob name one on the bench ?

Just need cover if somebody pulls up early doors.

Hope so. They always say though over Easter that it's not the Easter Monday game that gets you but the one after.

Disappointed Wynne isnt in, I cant see any of Shauls game that is better than Wynne' right now. I also dont see the reason to bring in Ratu in, think apart from Leeds he has been poor this year, doesn't offer enough going forward to help the team out.

Ratu all day long for me, he’s got that speed, agree about Wynne he’s been really unlucky to lose his place.

We've won 1 in 5 . You guys are very slight favourites with the bookies.

Disappointed that Shaul just comes straight back in.

I'm doing things over the weekend so I probably wont watch it. My enthusiasm is at an all time low. Partly because I'm feeling really disillusioned with the club right now, and partly because the season has just become a case of lets get it finished to make sure we keep sky happy. A cup with 8 teams doesnt do it for me tbh. Even if we won it I wouldn't really care much.

Depends if the bookmakers believe Liams broken ribs tweet, seriously, watching Cas at present, and watching Hull are two different levels, we’ve had two fortunate wins against Huddersfield and Wakey, whilst Cas have been outstanding against Saints and Wire, Hull will have to raise the bar to get anyway close.

But you never know

Plus we have an interim coach with what 4 games? under his belt, not the hugely experienced Powell and are missing both our GB players and our 2*Lance Todd winner. Would love to progress in the cup personally but viewing this game more in hope than expectation.

4 of our team who played on Thursday dropped out of the cup squad, 3 players from Cas, so not much difference.

Depends on the final 17, I guess. We could have as many as 8 fresh (pairs of) legs, and cas 7.

We've only won two in five and haven't won back to back games away from the KCOM since June last year.

Buchanan out of the 21 for Cam Scott.

Both would probably lose their place, the bigger picture is, who has made the decision to release Buchanan, and keep Scott, if it was a one player shoot out, my money was on keep Buchanan he’s already played in four different positions, and looked extremely promising, athletic, strong, fast. and versatile. Cam Scott we did well in securing him, loads of clubs if memory serves well were after him, a great prospect, we dumped him in a Derby as a kid and he held his own, he’s captained a successful colts team,.

As I say if it is a choice, it’s Buchanan for me, but the travesty is, we can’t keep them both, big club, never till these youth policy issues are nailed, as a scenario should Wigan keep Smithies, Harvard, Partington Byrne or Shorrocks, well they will keep them all till Bateman returns.

Good luck to him at Batley, sorry for the rant.

.... I've said this before, Scott was signed before the financial crisis, Buchanan was released because of the financial crisis.

Wigan is not a very good example, they have recently had a £2.5m cash injection from a billionaire who has bought a 25% stake in the club.

Yes you have, and I accept it, but things have changed, including our coach, decisions can be changed, and decisions on retention can be changed,

Wigan are the perfect example they are by far the leader of retaining, returning, and delivering talent at all ages.

Waiting in anticipation for this cup clash, we’ve not reached our best form, and this is the perfect opportunity to do it.

COYH

Kicks off at midnight here so will watch it. Not confident that we will progress though.

Hull FC: Jamie Shaul, Bureta Faraimo, Josh Griffin, Carlos Tuimavave, Ratu Naulago; Albert Kelly, Jake Connor; Gareth Ellis, Jordan Johnstone, Brad Fash; Jordan Lane, Manu Ma’u; Joe Cator.

Subs: Mahe Fonua, Danny Houghton, Chris Satae, Ligi Sao

Pretty strong team. Massive game for Jake Connor, we need him to play well to have a chance of winning.

Guess Savelios out due to his nose, he just doesn’t seem to be able to catch a break (no pun intended).

Fairly strong team so no excuses.

decent team, thought swift might have played instead of farimo, but no excuses, strong bench as well, COYH