Houghton hoping to be back for catalans but the physio said easter

Got told last night he's about ready and wants to play at Salford on Friday.

Waaa waaa waaa, do explain how that is sexist?


How did your report for my calling out your ridiculous comment work out?
So, not content with spouting racist nonsense you now turn to start to make personal attacks on me and my family, you're such a choice individual!

Yada yada. So racist nonsense and now personal attacks on your family? You should get back on the meds, it might stop the hallucinations

Lots of chat about going to 2 leagues of 10 today on social media. This makes avoiding the middle 8s even more critical.

really hope the SL clubs give this a wide berth! not a fan of the current system with the skewed fixtures in the 8s', playing teams 3 times a season will make it more unfair imo

cant see clubs wanting to lose 6 home games and income, stick as we are and go 1 up 1 down

I think the proposal is to play each other 3 times.

If this is true then I walk away from the game. It is bad enough playing 1 team at least 3 times in a regular season never mind the possibility of playing all teams 3 times with the possibility of playing a team 4 or 5 times in a season if Challenge cup and play offs are taken into account.

Toronto signing Gareth O'Brien is the rumour. Has form in the MPG - might come in useful.

NO point in looking at the league table until after the Easter fixtures. Wasn’t it Widnes started like a house on fire a year or two ago then faded .

I think 2 divisions of 10 isn't too bad an idea. It should soften the blow of relegation whilst allowing 5 or 6 championship teams a but more central funding and time to develop and grow.

For those whinging about playing each other 3 times, isn't that exactly what we had a few years ago in SL anyway? It wasn't perfect but unless we can add a couple of competitive teams to SL then it's probably the only realistic way

we played Bradford Northern and Leeds 4 times in 1980/81, Widnes and Castleford 5 times in 1981/82 for examples. Sure there were more competitions back then (yorkshire and JPT/Regal additional to what we have now) but it's when you add in the friendly with the bin dippers and that we were previously matched up for the Magic weekend game that it got grating and affected the attendances.
Sometimes being successful means you'll end up playing a couple of teams 3, 4 maybe even 5 times if they are too.

We have it now for the top 8. We played Leeds 5 times last year. And Wigan 5 times in 2016.

I could warm to two leagues of 10 as long as the second tier was well funded. Salford are looking to reduced their salary bill to 1.4m and that could be the level for a second division. Fully pro but with lower costs for the smaller teams.

As usual it all depends on Sky.

Just watching Catalans and they are beyond useless.
Don't care who we have missing, if we can't bag 2 points against them on Friday we might as well start seriously thinking of the middle 8's.

I think we're already in them as it stands

Can't all be ticker tape and glinting silver with black and white ribbons in the sunshine.
Let's go on the dogfight rollercoaster this season.

Yes! Bored of it all! Not been to Toronto or Toulouse for rugby purposes before.

All those expecting an easy victory against this 'poor' Catalans side are forgetting something, this is Hull FC here, we could be the team that battered em at home the season before last in the CC, equally we could play as abjectly e as we did away in Perpignan last year

Who are all these expecting an easy victory?

I think he's getting mixed up with the Salford pre game talk

I just think he's mixed up.

Said before on here
Wherever you are after 9 rounds has an uncanny resemblance to where you finish after 23
I’ve looked at many years of this and it’s quite eerie
There are only 2 exceptions to this over a longer period and not by much
We lost 8 games in 2016 and 12 in 2017 and how many his year ?
Pattern developing

These are our positions after rounds 9 and 23. Not particularly eerie.

2017 5th to 3rd
2016 4th to 1st
2015 11th to 7th
2014 7th to 11th
2013 11th to 8th
2012 2nd to 7th
2011 10th to 8th

Can you give us a rundown of say the last 20 or 30 years because I don't believe this is true. How do you define an "uncanny resemblance", one or two teams different or half a dozen, even if for one or two years of similarities it's not an indicator.

I remember the SL stats page and this used to show where a team was after each round, from what I can remember there certainly wasn't any uncanny similarities after 9 rounds compared to the end of the regular season but if you've got some actual hard facts to back up your claim I'm happy to be proven wrong.

we've had a few great starts but still not managed the playoffs, we;ve had some poor starts and made the play-offs and we've had some indifferent starts and these are no guarantee of anything.

I think by round 9 most of the better teams are nearer the top than the bottom and the weaker sides nearer the bottom than the top