If Rovers raised their game and beat us on Saturday, I'd actually be ed off if I was a Rovers fan. After some of the drivel they have served up over the last couple of months, i'd want to know why all of a sudden they can lift it for the derby!!

I'm amazed that the rumour has never gone away about Hull chucking the 6-42 game - the thought of any professional deliberate throwing an RL match is crazy. How can you even subtly do it for a start? Eg if you deliberately drop a ball or miss a tackle surely it would be blatantly obvious? I just never believed the rumour personally.

maybe i want to believe it to explain Hull's woeful display, shaun briscoe missed more 1 on 1 tackles in that game than the rest of his career.

There will be a pint waiting for you win, lose or draw!

This is the one game that the form book does go out of the window and I fully expect a fired up Rovers side putting in the kind of commited performance that they are only capable of producing in a derby.

Lets hope its the players performances we are talking about after the game and not the officials as well!

just to remind people, it's two league points, nothing more.

Don't care if we win by a point or 100 points.

A win is a win and a vital 2 points also.

I either want to hammer them by 30+ points, or win in the final 5 minutes from an extremely controversial decision.
Something akin to Leeds' win over Bradford in the very first Magic Weekend would do.

Was that when Sinfield went for goal but kicked it to the corner for a Leeds try??

Was the one where he hit the crossbar from a penalty and Tansey scored under the posts whilst he was stood miles offside. You can find it online if you search "Leeds Rhinos v Bradford Bulls (Millenium Magic)" in the right place.

It might only be worth two points on the table but derbies are worth more than that.

Yeah i remember that haha.

I think I remember that one happening. Was it Burrow who scored it? Can't even remember if the try was allowed to stand or not.

Im not sure if it was Bai or Calderwood. Could of bin anyone but i do no that Sinfield kicked it into the corner and Leeds scored a try from it.

Can't remember if it was allowed or not. Think that was also against Bradford.

The only excuse i could come up with in that game, was that we had a certain so called player(BUTCH MAVIS), imo the worse ever player in Superleague history handing the game on a plate for you.

Tansey scored for Leeds, was miles offside, but ref didn't use video ref.

Didn't kick for corner, scored next to the posts. Hit the post

There was another match, Dave, where Leeds got a penalty with out 30 seconds left and they chose to kick for 2 but Sinfield instead kicked into the corner and somebody scored from it.
The funny thing was Sinfield even signalled by pointing out to the corner that that's what he was going to do!

It was against us at headingley

Yup, I was there. Remember it well unfortunately.

It was a clear win for Leeds. There'd been a lot of niggle. And Leeds, in their usual arrogance, chose to kick the two but instead kicked to the corner from the tee and the Leeds player (Bai I think) scored in the corner.

Disallowed by video ref as you have to go for goal if you're using the tee. Sinfield, when interviewed, said (tongue in cheek) "I was going for goal."

Looking at the Hull KR score line so far from today, some of us may need to reconsider the idea that its going to be a walk over.

Good. I'm glad they've had a god win as it will stop our fans getting carried away and remove any chance the players have of being complacent. Will go level on points with us if they win so we need to play as well as we did on Friday to win

rovers will course us all kinds of problems. any one who was thinking otherwise are not using the brains they were born with.

If anyone thinks the derby will be an easy walkover then I would question their RL knowledge. It could be a blow out either way. I hope we have enough motivation to win from good friday.

I reckon we will win by 10-14 points.

our leaders will be key to an fc win. lyinch, ellis, horne, whiting holdsworth and houghton will need to going about there business very well to settle us into the match and turn the screw and grind it out.

Rovers having a good win today was probably the best thing for FC as there should be no chance of a complacent performance (not that there should be anyway)