Not me just cant see us beating the 3-0 this year

If we create and take the chances we had against Leeds then I'm confident of victory, but this is FC were talking about

I am,i just think we've got more quality and experience across the 17 than rovers. There isn't a lot in it though. I think their forwards will have to play the game of their lives to get over the top of ours over 80 mins,i'd give them the edge in the halves with dobson but hopefully he'll be innefective due to our forward domination. I don't think it'll be as tight as the previous 2 games whichever way it goes. I think Rovers will come out and try and blow us away with the emphasis on width and speed of passing. If they succedd we'll be left chasing but if they fail i think they could be in for a long night. Bring it on.

wish i had your confidence!!you should bottle it you would make a fortune

i dont normally drink but even im getting p*ssed for this one

Pack is the key - I'm hoping we have the edge.

Well i'm 110% confident. If our guys turn up with our A game we'll walk it.

Hope you're right - think we were missing Longy at the last one as well as Ogre and Fitz

Not confident, part of me think Rivers have got to win one this season. That said I do believe if both teams play to their potential we are the better side.

In the last derby we should have won by more and we were missing lots of players so I think with home advantage we start as slght favourites.

Dobson and his kicking game will be the key for a Rovers win.

That's pretty much my view of it. Rovers are a decent side and they have the law of averages in their favour. If we keep 13 men on the pitch and play like we did against Leeds last week, we should be ok, but we've been anything other than consistent this season. In short, we [ican[/i win it, but we might not.

Make mine a treble!!!

We do need more optimism on this forum atm. There're some people who are declaring that Rovers have already won it (Mrs B, I'm looking at you

).

Personally, I think it'll be a close game. The derbies usually are. Like someone earlier said, if both teams play to their full potential, I think that we're the better side. However, our derbies are usually totally different to however the teams have been doing pervious to the match, even more so as this is a knockout playoff.
We all know that if we play like we did against leeeds (btu with 13 people on our side) we'll win



Anyway, FC WIN

come on!

I'm very confident....we play like we did against Leeds (with the added bonus of 13 on the field) and we will do well in the play-off's

Pretty confident, just watced the last derby game again.

In that game our forwards bullied Rovers, and that without O Meley and Fitz, there where only kept in the game by us somehow fooking up 3 easy trys and their excellent kicking game.

Us to win, and I feel that it will be slightly more comfy that the last 2 games.

close dobson down,and we will be travelling away the following week.

If we play like we did against Leeds, we shouldn't go far wrong. Still dreading it though!

its the playoffs! Rovers don't win in Playoff games!

Obviously Morgan's far from confident......if he has sent his players for hypnotherapy ahead of the match

made me laugh tho as Morgan certainly knows how to make an idiot of himself and his squad...whatever next voodoo dolls and witchcraft maybe?

Said on the radio this morning that hes also speaking to Stuart Cummings to ensure his team gets a fair rub of the green and that the ref isnt influenced by the fans. Talk about a negative approach.

I'm confident probably too confident. I think we'll be too strong in the forwards for them. I agree with Paul M though, Dobson's kicking game could cause us some problems.

I can tell you one thing, I have butterfly's in my stomach! Very nervous.

On paper, Hull FC win. In reality, this is a derby - anything could happen.

Although, I'm not superstitious, but Hull won the Challenge Cup the day after I got married, my sister and brother in law (also life long FC fans) babies due date is approximately now as well. I wonder what the chances of another double celebration are?!

we will be in a battle and we dont usually win the game after a derby battle but to take them out of the playoffs is enough for me

I am worryingly confident. The last time I was this confident we lost 6-42.

We have every reason to be confident. We beat them at their place despite their thuggery.

We beat them last time with three of our top players missing.

But both matches were close and statistically they are going to beat us sooner or later.

Our pack needs to get on top of theirs and we need to stop Dobson. If we can do this we will win.

I had an early morning dump the day of the last derby so will make sure I have a good clear out Saturday morning

On the contary, i think it is you that is looking the idiot if you think that exploring every possible avenue to gain the edge in a game of this magnitude is not worthwhile, i gauge by your comments that you havn't been around long enough to realise that sports psychology plays an important part in any modern sport, using the same technique certainly didn't do middlweight boxer Steve Collins any harm in 1995 when he beat Chris Eubank who was favourite at the time to win the fight.