Just to add, what a refreshing change - a derby thread without all the usual garbage

I expect a 16 all draw till the 79th minute when Radford will intercept a long cut out pass by rovers and then open his legs pin his ears back and prove to us what a world class player he is and how fit he is or will he simply drop the ball anyway or give away a penalty.......

Plenty of time for it to change though Paul

Depends which Hull FC turns up really, hopefully they will have had along hard look at themselves and the Coach included and come out on Friday fired up. If they dont then i can only see us getting another drubbing and the hands on Morgan and his merry men as he always gets them up for the derbies unlike Agar.

fancy us to win by 7 a late drop goal from longy to seal it.

With such a tight game predicted, could boil down to which coach has the most influence!

Don't understand the comments about our pack being too big for Rovers. Radford, Dowes and Moa are small for props.

Moa maybe a prop but dowes and Radford are barely RL players never mind props

Dowes maybe, but Radford is huge, shame he doesnt run his weight though, Moa might be small in height but is big the other way and very powerful.

Wouldn't say radford is huge if he is he definelty doesn't use it

You are Rommel and i claim my £5.

I am cakking it over this one. Beginning of the season I would have us nailed on to win, now?......If Hull arrive up for it,I will say us,just.

Are we having a sweep on when Hame gets sin binned?

The derby games usually go to the team that want it more, for that reason I think Rovers will scrape it. Hope I'm wrong, but the derby games of the recent era hardly fill me with confidence.

Can only see one winner! Horne will be a major influence on the squad and if Fitz, O'Meley, Lauaki, Manu can get on top of them, I think the hard work is already done. In Sean Long and (this season) Richard Horne, we have two good half backs who are more than capable of orchastrating a victory over the Red and Whites. Cusack should return and his experience should lift the team.

My only concern is who will throw the first punch. Moa, Lauaki, O'Meley or Long.

Here comes the Boom!!!!

lets face it, we've been hurt by rovers in the last few years, the vast majority of the squad have been hurt by them so if hull go out there not wanting it then they are not fit to be in the profession they are in, we have to win aswell because warrington 3 days after a derby is a big ask, come on u ull !

Not at all confident about this one, to be honest.

Morgan has proved in the past how he is much better at lifting his team for a derby game than Agar or Sharp before him.

What a civilised thread given the subject matter.



As for a prediction, it comes down to whether Morgan can get Rovers fired up enough to win or if our Hull Derby debutants can up their game after last Sarurday for one which is so important to the fans.

If Longy can chuck some decent wide ball to Manu running up against Welham, Hull can score plenty out wide.

I hope they read this forum as I'm not sure Agar is tactically aware enough.

True Morgan can lift his side more than seemingly agar and sharp have been able to do in recent years, if we win it, it maybe more todo with the players than the coach.

Im not so sure that Morgan does get our team fired up alot more than you guys, he has just been tactically so much better than his opposite.

That too.

I think Rovers will sorely miss Cooke for the Derbies. This is definitely one that can go either way as with all Derbies but without Cooke involves I think the balance tips slightly more FC's way.

Home advantage could tip it in the dobbins favour. Close to call.

We need more cover for our wingers thats our weakness ,Dobson will just bomb them all afternoon .
I noticed when were defending Longy goes to the and Yeaman steps one in,if rovers get the wide runners running at him to tire him out .
Oh its going to be a nailbiter .

Let's face it, Dobson is far weaker in defence than Long so if we run it at him it will pay dividends. Also they are going to be light in the experienced winger dept so will be just as worried about Long, Horne and Tansey kicking to their wingers. Even if Fox plays his attack is his strength, defence and fielding high balls his weaknesses.

We wont be worried about Horne kicking at all lol

Fox aint bad under a high ball at all, think he went through a dodgy spell last season but it never lasted long, alot of players go through this.

Horneys kicking game was much improved in his last 3 or 4 games before his injury, so much so i think we scored quite a few tries from his kicks. Plus his tactical kicking was also much better.