Pleased he is doing well, I really rated him in 2014 until he knew he was leaving Cas, when he seemed to lose a bit of focus.
Shame about the beard, though.

cas have played the 2 worst teams in SL so hard to gauage how well they're doing really. We've comfortably beaten les cats in france (no small achievement going by recent years) and a much improved salford side who have won 2 games since. I'm sure cas are capable of winning this game but it would take a big dip in performance from Hull to do it. Play like we did in france and we won't lose this one

that salford side is pretty good i think we'll find over time. they're playing wigan next i think so that will be a good test of where they are

If we stay focused and don't give them.easy metres through soft penalties then on the back of what we've seen so far we could win by 2 or 3 scores.
Lapse for even a short time and Cas can get the ball about the park just as well as we have shown and punish us heavily.
I think us by 10 in a high scoring game, at this moment in time a win by even just 1 point would be taken by all Hull fans.

A win of any description is what you need against the teams who will probably be challenging us for a top 4 finish. If we play as we have so far then I think we will edge it. Anything less than 100% and Cas could easily turn us over.

i think Salford will turn Wigan over

I'm going for Hull by 18.

Hopefully a repeat of either of last season's two home wins against them.

Cas struggled against a very bad Rovers side and beat the team who could only score 2 tries on Sunday and are the most likely to drop down a division.

No Carney this year, no Shenton, Sneyd or Finn. I think we will win this quite easily.

Ben Crooks is a dreadful defender close to the line. His saving grace during his SHORT tenure in the first team was Lineham. Once Lineham got his injuries, Crooks was found out and was dropped very quickly. Just bomb the hell out of him.

I reckon the bookies have this one about right.

Hull by 8-10 points

Hull by 14

Cas have sold out their ticket allocation according to the club on Twitter

What was their allocation?

You'll never see a game in which "conditions were the leveler" applies more. Seriously...crap boggy pitch and heavy winds really dragged Cas down to KRs level.

No Lynch & Massey that game and then losing Shenton early messed the sub rotations up didn't help either.



Monaghan is better than Carney in defence, Finn is garbage and hardly played the second half of last season (and are you really suggesting Ben Roberts isn't as good as Liam Finn?) and Cas haven't had Sneyd for well over a year (not to mention Gale is better) so I don't get your points there...at all.



Bombing Crooks means kicking it down Monaghan's side of the pitch, if Crooks can be isolated then sure that does sound like a good plan but kicks aren't going to be 100% accurate every time.

Personally...think there will be no more than 10 points in it either way. It might even come down to who Hicks lets spoil the game at the PTB more.

We beat them twice at the kc last year with a weaker team so no reason to doubt we can win this if we're up for it. Won't be easy but it would be very disappointing if we lose this one

least you give Cas some credit by saying it will not be easy unlike a lot of blinkered a Hull fans who think we're just going there and role over to Hull and DP loves challenges like these.

It's Hull's to lose I think with home advantage. If it were at wheldon road I'd probably have Hull slight favourites with us having more speccies there than cas

When you wake up on Friday morning you're going to know why. (Not slating Cas - just believing in the new FC BTW)

You said a few weeks ago that we'd finish 7th or 8th and it would be very difficult to finish above Cas. Not sure why this is now seen as a gimme tbh in that context?

I don't think any fan has said that about Cas, the most I have seen is a fan suggesting we will win by 18, considering we won by more than that in the cup last year, with a much worst side, is there prediction that unrealistic?

I think it will be close as I don't see much on paper between the two sides, think form and being at home will see us through just

The Cas side that we will face tomorrow will be far stronger than the one that turned up at Craven Palace.

If nothing else. they now have Lynch, Millington and Massey in the team which didn't happen against the poor Dobbins.

I'm not surprised you don't understand but in simple terms we beat them twice at home last season with a worse squad so every reason to believe we will win tomorrow. Although we beat them twice at home last season we still finished below them. With your quote library maybe you can point to where I've said the 2 points are a "gimme" or is that another thing you've made up?

Cas had at least 7 injured for the cup game, right? Not sure how relevant that is tbh. And obviously we're already 2 points better than for the same games last year, so to finish 8th maybe we might drop points in games we won last year and try and win some others like Wakefield away.

not sure, been trying to find ref to it on their forum. would probably be around 1000 or 1500 (they can always request more i believe)

Maybe, or maybe they'll exceed my expectations and finish higher. Who knows and there is a long way to go so don;t get too giddy just yet. saints and the frenchies looking poor at this stage so maybe they'll drop out of the reckoning for the top 4 which will obviously provide opportunities for another club to challenge. There are so many factors involved even I can;t be right all of the time