Tough to pick a side, what do you do about Carlos, Griffin has played well, don't like carrying a back on the bench.

Backs pick themselves IMO

Watts
Hadley
Paea
Hadley
Manu
Bowden

Green
Masi
Abdul
Washy

If Manu is out, Washy to start, Turgut on the bench.

Don't they say it's 1 day for every hour time difference to fully recover from jet lag

If he's rumoured not to be playing going by recent events he'll be definitely lining up against Cas then

Griffin has improved but hes still the worst of the three centres at the club, Tui and Conner everytime

I hope we play the same kind of style of rugby as we did against St George. It was great to watch. Also hope the aggression is carried into the SL too

You seem to have a bit of a bee in your bonnet about this. Quite rich given the Tim Sheens Triage of Doom on the Craven Park sidelines.

Can't see us getting anything from this one and 4 or 5 days isn't enough to get the time difference out of their systems. cas by quite a few IMO

Yep, Chris Green's partner is about to have a baby so that's potentially 5 of our first choice forwards missing.

Believe me, there is trouble in the camp at Cas.

This should be a routine win for Hull, hope I am wrong but cannot see it.

I'm not sure how it can possibly be a routine win for Hull with key players injured and just getting back from 2 weeks on the other side of the planet

He'll play

I'm a fan of Hadley but not sure he can cover both spots at the same time lol

If one looks at how professionals (in sport) approach long journeys this should never be an issue/excuse.
Us by 20 IMHO.

Indeed, "Jet Lag" is a myth created in the 70's so that people who could afford to fly could remind people they'd been somewhere exotic. A bit like how having a tan used to be a status symbol.

They are professional sports people, if Simon Cowell can commute between London and LA weekly then professional atheletes should have no problem.

NFL sides travel similar distances through different timezones weekly.

They went to Australia, not Mars!

Any chance we can all chip in for a one way ticket to Mars for Cowell?

I am quite convinced that NFL teams most certainly do not travel circa 11,000 miles on a weekly basis and will only cover a maximum of 3 times zones.

Simon Cowell has to simply sit somewhere and listen to some music. Hardly a comparison to someone who is expected to be in the peak of physical condition.

Try telling that to my inner ear which at the minute is giving me the most horrendous dizziness!!

I think everyone who was in Australia should at least have the decency to turn up in Shorts this week.

Fake tan sprays in Hull shops are in very short supply, apparently.

You can fook off...it's going to be freezing!!!

Jet lag is a real thing. It's not just tiredness or mental confusion, it effects hormone levels and organs which contain their own internal clocks. The effects can be managed but not eradicated.

Still more confident about Saturday than I've been for our last few visits though.

And you have a link to evidence for medical opinion?

Maybe it would be easier for you to provide evidence that it doesn't affect anyone.

Seen as though Griffin was up in the middle of the night and decided to do his meal prep for the week suggests that some of the players may be a little out of sorts for a few days this week

USA Athletes and Sports persons medical journal

Jet lag is much less of a problem after travelling in a westward direction than an eastward direction because it is always easier to shift the body to a later schedule than an earlier one. Think about it, people have little difficulty staying awake a little longer than usual (and sleeping in later than usual) on days off, and this is exactly what happens when traveling west where everything occurs later than in your home time zone. But in the case of eastward travel, forcing yourself to go to bed earlier rarely leads to actually falling asleep earlier than usual, and waking up at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning is never fun. Heading eastward shifts everything ahead of schedule, and the body definitely doesn’t like this change. In both cases, however, the body’s clock resists any disruption, and thus it takes time to readjust: at least one day per time zone crossed.

Athletes need to be aware of an additional jet lag factor that can especially interfere with their performance: timing misalignment. On top of the “internal body-clock desynchronization” described above, a misalignment between body-clock time and local-clock performance time can create problems even when jet lag symptoms are minimal. Such is often the case when only 3 time zones are crossed and in general it takes a day per 2 times zones to recover.