Like you knocking other posters without making any contribution to the thread.

Its almost like Rovers have got their championship team ready a year early

We'll tonk em just like most SL teams this year - They'll finish bottom and be relegated......................

only they wont.................

as Super League will expand by one or two teams and no relegation will occur - thats why Grudge has assembled such a poor team for this year. IMO of course

pointless post as your opinion is worth FA

6-42 or 56-12. Who knows?

I see nothing more than a FC win
Rovers will be spirited but out muscled

Jones will have a break out game

Fonua MUST play even if for 20 at the end of each half. I feel passionately he must play unless injured.

A dry pitch as well

Just watch Ratu’s wing. Leeds had 1 try and it’s a miracle they didn’t have 2 more on his wing

Hull win for me - for sure, but not a record score like last year. Kelly to wreak havoc as well.

Oh I’m excited

Is that whether he's playing or not?

Rovers players watched Hull put 30 on Leeds and keep Leeds to 1 late try
They will then read only 3000 rovers fans cane to watch them yet there’s over 20,000 in the House
Then they see Kelly, Houghton and FONUA added to the Team
The game is won before it starts !
As Shankly used to say to the Liverpool players before the game - “ I cant believe the other team have turned up”

Believe we will be unbeaten after this one to reverse last season when we were 0-2 after 2 games. Tipped golden point win in 2019 and was not far off(Rovers by 2). Will watch it live on TV early on Saturday morning.

Also very much looking forward to the St Helens match on Sunday week even though it is not televised here. Should attract another decent crowd.

Manu Mau our for 4-5 weeks
Unreal !!

And so it begins.....

Why? its rugby hes playing not tiddlywinks. you really need to get a grip

Not an easy one to call IMO.

Sure we have the firepower but Smith gets his team playing out wide and that will help combat our big forwards. Should we allow Rovers to play that game and with our short turn around itll be a massive leveller. Alot of derby debutants on either side and some will announce themselves others will have a night to forget.

Us to win but by a try.

That was my first thought too. It's a run of the mill rugby league injury. Disappointing, but hardly "unreal."

If Ma'u being out for a month is the worst injury we get this year we have been extremely lucky.

Rovers have finally sold out the North stand. Hopefully beat the attendance we got last year

Gonna be a cracking atmosphere. The only real derby in rugby. We should win by 16/18 but its a bloomin derby and anything is possible. Still fancy us though. COYH

Joint academy

Care to elaborate?

The only thing predictable in this derby will be the level of Tarquin's melt down if we do manage to win, I'm betting it tops the record he holds for the best one in RLFans history

Not anymore. That got canned last year.

I hope the weather tomorrow is like today’s in Kingston upon Hull, it is beautiful. Shame about Manu, it would have been great to see him in his home debut in a Derby.

Cator has done his hamstring and Kelly has been banned for 2 games (dangerous throw in reserves game last week), doesn't get any easier.
I assume we can replace Kelly in the 21 man squad without losing an interchange?

FFs.

Would think the injury to Ma'u means that Fonau comes in at centre and Griffin/Savelio go into 2nd row in place of Ma'u.

Not good news for him to miss 4-5 games but it is what it is although we should be able to cover his absence well enough.

I think we probably can replace him without penalty, but there isn't much point. The 17 will just come from the remaining 20, nobody else will come into contention.

So now my team would be.

Shaul
Naulago
Fonua
Carlos
Faraimo
Connor
Sneyd
Taylor
Houghton
Satae
Jones
Griffin
Sao

Savelio
Bowden
Johnstone
Lane

They might not all feature in those exact positions, but I am confident that those will be the 17 players involved. I don't think Swift will be in because Faraimo was good last week, but he will get a chance sooner or later.

Pretty much how I see the 17 only possible change would be Matongo on the bench in place of Lane. So Savelio could play 2nd row and prop in spells if needed leaving Bowden and Matongo as interchange props