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

Bit of a struggle for Peacock with some of our names.

Cas:
1 James Clare, 2 Derrel Olpherts, 3 Cheyse Blair, 4 Michael Shenton, 5 Sosaia Feki, 6 Peter Mata'utia, 7 Danny Richardson, 8 Liam Watts, 9 Paul Mcshane, 10 George Griffin, 11 Oliver Holmes, 12 Mike McMeeken, 13 Jacques O'Neill

Subs 14 Grant Millington, 15 Adam Milner, 16 Tyla Hepi, 17 Calum Turner

I agree
Swift must be disappointed plus we lose a lot of pace from that wing
Strange decision particularly as we have Fonua on the bench.

Get in Los

That’s what having support runners gets you. Great stuff.

Worst goal line defence in the league. Appreciate we had to defend a lot of tackles but still a poor try to concede.

Best and worst of Jamie Shaul so far.

Faraimo will be absolutely peppered today. Looks like he’s running in treacle as well.

Brilliant set. Hard running, fast play the balls and finished it off really well. Good stuff. Keep up that pace and intensity and we'll win this.

Carlos having a brilliant game.

Carlos all class and Josh Griffin quality for his post contact metres.

Cas used half their interchanges already. Keep pushing.

No no, its same old boring 'radfordesq' five drives and a kick

Got out of jail there.

Great work Carlos again. We’ve been lucky there.

Impressive carries from Satae so far, hope he keeps that up.